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Name

Carole Page Davies

Member Since

1982

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Statement

In recent years, my work has changed significantly from landscape and environment-based paintings. Landscape and environmental awareness are still central to my life, so it is likely that I will return to these themes in future.

Now my subject matter includes more engagement with global political events, presently Russia’s war in Ukraine and the repression of women in Iran.  I aim to engage with the humanity of individuals behind the media images of world leaders, with their hype and propaganda. This involves an attempt to project imaginatively into the psychology behind their actions, similar perhaps to what a novelist or playwright might do in their own media.  At the same time, I recognise that I have my own prejudices and judgments, like any human being. Sometimes this proces results in satire, or poses questions to the viewer who must supply answers from their own standpoint.

Acrylic paintings often include collage elements made from layers of free and vigorous mixes of acrylic colour peeled from a smooth surface and incorporated into paint applied to canvas.

 

Education

O and A Levels at Downe House School, Newbury and Marlborough College.

4-year University of London Diploma in Fine Art at the Slade School, University College London

Exhibitions / Projects

Solo exhibitions:

1979 Upstream Theatre Gallery, London SE1

1982 Marlborough College Art School

1983 Ogle Gallery Cheltenham

1987 Visions& Journeys, St.Just. Jamieson Library, Newmill, Penzance.

1989 Bread Street Gallery, Penzance

1990 Arts Centre Group, London SE1

1994, 1995, 2009 Truro Cathedral

2000 Perimeter Gallery, Penzance

(Personal circumstances meant that I have not sought opportunities to exhibit solo until now.) 

Group Shows 1982 – 2024 include:

NSA at Newlyn Art Gallery, Penwith Gallery

Brothertons Knightsbridge, St. George’s Gallery Twickenham, The Ashbourne Gallery, Mount House Gallery Marlborough,

Salthouse & New Craftsman Galleries, St. Ives,

National Trust Galleries at Trelissick & Cotehele Quay

Beside The Wave, Falmouth

Potbuoys Gallery, St. Agnes, Isles of Scilly

Tresco Gallery, Isles of Scilly

Other exhibitions include:

100 Years of Art in Cornwall & Art for Healing at Royal Cornwall Museum, Carousel Gallery Chipping Sodbury, Wolf at the door Penzance, Galerie L’Atelier Toulouse.

 

 

 

Collections

Work in private collections in America, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

Methodist Church Collection of Contemporary Art, UK

Awards

1977 David Murray Studentship in Landscape Painting from Royal Academy of Arts

Publications

Work included in Drawing towards the End of a Century published by NSA to celebrate its centenary in 1995, also one work in NSA 2002. 

Featured in Catching the Wave – Art & Artists in Contemporary Cornwall by Tom Cross (Halsgrove, 2002)

Illustrations for Count Me In! Book 1, (Jamaican Ministry of Education  2002) school maths textbook

Commissions

1990 – 94  3 Series of topographical watercolours for:

Mrs. Rosemary Colville, Penheale Manor, Launceston

Mr. David Treffry, Place, Fowey

Sir Valentine Abdy, Newton Ferrers, Callington

2011 Our Lady of the Portal, large outdoor panel for Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary & St. Piran, Truro

Residencies

7 weeks’ landscape painting at Lake Vyrnwy, Powys, funded by David Murray award from RA

Watch this Space Interactive installation at Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery 2002

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