by kate newington
Acrylic and mixed media
h: 31 w: 21 d: 2 (cms).
I have always loved painting sunflowers. This painting used for reference a small sketch I had already made of a sunflower that was on the cusp of ‘turning’ . In the picture I placed it in a favourite blue mug that used to be my mother’s. I set the still life somewhere on an imagined beach in southwest Cornwall (where I regularly spend time). I often include flattened contrasting patterns and textures in paintings in a way that reflects my love of collage and enjoyment in painting and drawing detail.
£500 (As exhibited.)
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by kate newington
Acrylic on canvas
h: 70 w: 70 d: 2 (cms).
This still life is an integration of images of imagined vessels and a real life pot of my own. The table and background are also partly imagined and partly painted from life. How the foreground and background interlock with each other as some sort of designed space also felt important. The work of many of the mid-century British modernists is often in my mind. The composition evolved via the painting of the two central objects and their contents. As often in my work, I wanted the background to hint at a distant horizon without being too literal. Flying birds are suggested in a morning mist, and I enjoyed making the sky a textured pattern of interlocking shapes.
£1100 (As exhibited.)
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by kate newington
Acrylic and mixed media
h: 30 w: 30 d: 2 (cms).
Looking into St Ives harbour from the stone wall, at high tide the sea pulls itself right into the two old stone arches at the inner end of the harbour wall. Taking in the colour and texture of the wave-beaten stone and the activities along Smeaton's Pier, I made drawings and took photos of the harbour at different times of day and this painting grew out of one of those sketches. I wanted to simplify the picture by painting in the bold shapes of the arches, flattening the shape and form of the sea and just suggesting the lines of the buildings that sit around the harbour. It became a series of interlocking shapes inspired by the strong lines and colour contrasts in the scene. The mug had belonged to my mother and I liked the vivid yellow of its stripe. It also provides a foreground focus to the picture. Although the background is mainly painted, the still life element in the foreground is made up of collage and paint.
£500 (As exhibited.)
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