Northen Graduates Artist Wins Northern Lights Art Prize

One our Northern Graduates Artists, Nat Quinn, has just won a £10 000 prize and professional mentoring from established artist Emerson Mayes.

Here is what the judges had to say about his work:


"Nat Quinn's delicate and ambiguous abstract paintings take as much from other media - like drawing and ceramics - as they do from the history of painting. A very worthy recipient in a talented selection. Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Art Society."


Paul Hobson



"Nat Quinn is showing a way to confront painting with a relevance to our inner lives; which in the political and economic climate of today, remains vital."


William Tillyer:


We wish Nat the best of luck in his future career and remind his fans of two things:
1.You saw him here first.
2.We still have some of his work available for sale in the gallery (below)

Untitled 2oil on paper, 59 x 76 cm
£525 fr

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Rebecca Hind: Causeway

Rebecca Hind's new show; Causeway opened last thursday.It is a very serene exhibition of large watercolour paintings exploring different elements.

These paintings form a metaphorical step across a causeway into a realm of the basic manifestations of the elemental forces: Air, Fire and Water. Walking through the gallery becomes a journey though metaphysical energies, leading us to align with the rise, fall and shift of the elements.

                                                Rebecca Hind, Earthshine, £2250 
One thing that immediately strikes the viewer is the amount of movement in these images. These are not passive elements; they are living, dynamic forces. They are animated images, living states of ethereal flux, celebrating the power of the elements. In her  paintings of water; waves pulse and flex like muscles, in her vivid depictions of fire, sparks of definition crackle over the soft flames whooshing beneath.

Rebecca Hind, Crest ,£4500

One of the newest and most impressive of the paintings on show is her depiction of air: Glitterbirds. Here the sky is represented as a fluid space by the movements of flocks of birds within it. These birds swarm and drift, moving as one body, framed by soft clouds in a sky composed of diffuse beams of light. Similarly, in her representations of water; white spume on the crest of waves ripple and undulate over the calmer washes of colour beneath. This gives visible contours to the movement of the transparent body.

Rebecca Hind, Glitter Birds, £4950

Her use of watercolour is ideally suited to the ethereal nature of this subject matter. With the transparency and flow of the medium comes the suggestion of the transparency and flow of the element represented. Despite, in some cases, being figurative, these images are also enormously expressive. They manage to take on an abstract quality which is as important as their, more obvious, figurative nature.

Rebecca Hind,Sparks on the Summer Triangle, £2250

In this exhibition, Curwen and New Academy Gallery gives a chance to see a new and original practitioner within the tradition of watercolour painting. Her work is attractive and uplifting as well as being academically interesting. The work illustrates the potential of watercolour painting to explore ambitious themes while also being appropriate for domestic spaces. These works fit well in both the gallery and the home, giving equal delight to the casual browser and the determined collector.

Rebecca Hind Causeway will be showing at Curwen and New Academy Gallery until 30th September 2011



Victoria Langdon: Home To Roost

Victoria Langdon, Yellow Golden Pheasant, £350 fr
Last week Victoria Langdon's new exhibition "Home to Roost" opened to a packed upstairs gallery.This new show of bold and colourful screenprints are some of the most good humored work we have shown in a long while.

The subject of the work is the 'country gent' of the bird world; the pheasant.In contrast to the urban pigeons, the subject of her last show, pheasants have associations with rural gentry. Her prints capture the comical quirkiness of the bird, many of them playfully adopting human expressions
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Victoria Langdon, Regal Ridiculous, £350 fr

As can be seen above; Regal Ridiculous bears an uncanny resemblance to Hugh Laurie's Prince Regent from Blackadder the Third.

Home to Roost is showing at Curwen Gallery until 30th September 2011