Exhibition

Cup Half Full at CBG

1 Oct 2022 – 31 Oct 2022

Regular hours

Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00
Friday
11:00 – 17:00

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CAREY BLYTH GALLERY

Oxford
England, United Kingdom

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  • By Bus from Oxford Train Station to Woodstock Road.
  • 15 mins work from Oxford Train Station.
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Mixed exhibition of 30 paintings and sculpture by local, national and international artists. New Paintings by colour field painter Netta CAREY, with cyanotypes by Antonia BRUCE, abstract landscape painting by Alison BERRETT, abstract painting by Day BOWMAN and work by Gerry JUDAH

About

Essentially Netta Carey is a colourfield painter.  Her muses are clear to see – Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenhaler ……These artists emerged in New York in the 1940s and 50s distinct from the Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock who were more gestural and spontaneous in their painting.  Quiet and contemplative, colourfield developed into an abstracted genre where ultimately colour reigned supreme and the viewer was transported to a meditative state of transcendence.

Her new work focusses on form as much as colour with shapes juxtapositioned within the frame of the composition challenging us to explore and enquire.  Netta’s palette is exquisite.  She has a profound understanding of colour – note how the light in the reds are set off by the deep indigo blue.

In Back To The Wild,  shown here at CBG last year, Netta explored the landscape and spirit of the Scottish Highlands at Alladale where Paul Lister over the 16 years created a rewilding project.  Lister’s intention is to return the 23,000 acre estate to a natural woodland haven for wildlife, to include wolves, bears and lynx.  Carey’s paintings captured the wild heart of Scotland where the landscape is untamed by the absence of human intrusion.  Particularly she captured the quiet strength and beauty of Alladale in all its autumn richness - purple skies echoed the heather above russet-red bracken stretching across her canvases in bands of colour.  Lochs gleamed across a spectrum of white.  The exhibition sold out.

Netta Carey trained at the Paris American Academy (1982-83), London College of Printing (1984-87), Chelsea School of Art (1983-84) and L’Ecole Des Beaux Artes, Nantes (1986).  She lives and works in Oxfordshire and Snowdonia where she has studios. Her work is placed in private collections in UK, France and USA.

This mixed exhibition features beautiful sculpture by Martin SMITH.  Based in classical mythology, the artist talks about teasing the language out of stone.  His abstracted figures are sculpted from alabaster and marble that he sources from Tuscany.

Abstracted landscape painters Day BOWMAN and Alison BERRETT have each developed their own unique alphabet and language of painting.  Some beautiful work on show.

There is always something to catch your interest and to explore at CBG.  The gallery is open wed-sat from 12-5 pm with a warm welcome.  On Saturdays, the gallery invites you to drop in for a glass of wine during the day and impromptu talks.  The exhibitions are frequently changing so there is always something new to see.

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Jenny Blyth Fine Art

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Netta CAREY

Antonia Bruce

Gerry Judah

Day Bowman

Alison Berrett

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