After a very successful Open Weekend at the Studio, the exhibition of new works by Alan Cotton is availableto view by appointment. To arranage to view the show please call us on 01628 486565 or email studio@messums.com
A popular artist, Alan has exhibited with Messum’s for over 35 years and he was present at the opening to talk about the paintings and introduce the new book exploring his work ‘Drawn to Paint’.
There are certain places where the special contours of a landscape trigger Alan Cotton’s creative imagination. The West Coast of Ireland is one such place. It forms the main
focus of this exhibition, filling Messum’s gallery with the potent blues and violets and rich grey-greens characteristic of the countryside that skirts the Atlantic ocean. Here the weather
is the main protagonist, and the skies, heavy with rain-bearing clouds or streaked with pearly light, dominate many of Alan Cotton’s paintings. He has explored the territory of Kerry,
Connemara and Donegal with a passionate intensity, steeping himself in its history and internalising the shapes and colours of winding lanes, rocky walls and coastal cliffs. Elsewhere, whether Provence, Tuscany or Transylvannia, Alan gives us a rich travelogue of colourful impasto imagery evocative of terrain and a sense of place.
To celebrate the event, Messum's commissioned a short introductory film featuring both Alan Cotton discussing his work and David Messum's comments on Alan's long relationship with Messum's.
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES ON ALAN COTTON AVAILABLE WWW.MESSUMS.COM
To purchase the recently published book by Jenny Pery, the 64 page exhibition catalogue or earlier works on Alan published by Messum's, please visit our online bookshop at www.messums.com
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