The Sea

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The Sea: contemporary marine
paintings in Tenby

Accomplished marine artists have been invited to contribute to an exhibition
entitled The Sea, showing in Tenby throughout September, up to the Tenby Arts Festival week.
The exhibition of more than 40 paintings portrays the sea in all moods: gently lapping familiar beaches, roughly pounding inaccessible rocks and the powerful swells and currents of far oceans.

Dai David recalls childhood memories of the seaside, particularly when camping near Tenby, swimming and rock-pooling.  Capturing light sparkling on water and painting contre jour (against the light) in oil is one of his recurring passions. 
In Rhona Tooze’s work the users of the beach and sea are surfers, either on the water or entering it, Rhona’s daughter being a fearless champion on the board.  Rhona produces in batik what many artists would envy in terms of draughtsmanship and finish.  Using the ages-old wax-resist technique on fine cloth her batiks of sea and seaside show a subtle range of colours.

Pembroke based artist Sue Pomery Wilks also includes the sea and beaches in her work but these have few visitors except occasional walkers and sea birds. She sculpts the movement of the sea in acrylic, mingling colours and applying them together. The marram grass of dunes and the warmth or coolness of sand are depicted in the same bold way.

The up and coming Swansea artist Sian McGill produces clean, light-filled paintings of seas around Pembrokeshire’s coast and elsewhere while Elaine Graham, a Canadian artist long established in Ceredigion specialises in colourful acrylic paintings of the coast from the Gower right round to Ceredigion via Pembrokeshire.

Bob Grimson, who has built his own boats and sailed them across the Atlantic is now based in Goodwick. He paints the sea and sky in oil including the classic boats he knows so well.
Sandra Phillips paints the sea and coast in all its moods in oil in her Pendine studio.
Andrea Kelland whose name has become synonymous with paintings of water and waves is also joining the exhibition with some fine paintings to add to the mix.

This is a varied exhibition which covers the vastness of the sea and coastal fringes in a whole range of styles and every medium imaginable.

Other artists expected to contribute to the exhibition include Martyn Vaughan Jones, Dorian Spencer Davies and Chris Prosser.

See everything on the gallery website here: www.artmatters.org.uk