Events
Hornseys - ‘the gallery’ at 3, Kirkgate Ripon are proud to host a Satellite Exhibition of David Baumforth & Ed Kluz for the Great North Art Show.
Friday 24 August 2007 to Saturday 15 September 2007
The preview will be on the 24th August and the Selling exhibition will run to the 15th Septembe
"Art is taking over the City" as the Great North Art Show hold for the first year Satellite Exhibitions in over 15 independent businesses in Ripon. The Great North Art Show at Ripon Cathedral is an exhibition of contemporary paintings held annually. The aim of the exhibition is to promote the work of invited professional artists from Yorkshire and the North. All works displayed are for sale. Proceeds go to the 'Ripon Cathedral Development Campaign’ (Reg. Charity No. 1086760)
Exhibiting are David Baumforth and Ed Kluz.
David Baumforth was born in York and paints the places he loves; the North Sea, its coastline and hinterland. His work combines a contemporary viewpoint with the tradition of the European Romantics. He is uncompromising in his pursuit of nature's passion. He is a nationally and internationally respected painter who has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions - including the R.A. Summer Exhibitions, R.W.S. Open and The Hunting Prizes at the R.C.A.
Baumforth says of his work "My pictures are not necessarily pretty - they are the truth".
'Baumforth is a painter of sea and landscape who stands foursquare and unapologetic in the Romantic Turnerian tradition, but, as his powerfully evocative works make clear, it is to the later Turner of the near-abstract, apparently unfinished canvases and the rapid free intuitive watercolour studies, all mist and light and spray, with strange forms emerging from the shadows, that he is always looking' William Packer, former Financial Times Art Critic.
Ed Kluz, on completing his degree in Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art, returned to Richmond, Yorkshire and began to explore the heritage and townscape of the area. “I was inspired by the rich history and diverse landscapes which surrounded me.”
“Richmond's townscape is a tightly knit collection of the remnants of past generations and their imprint on the town's facade. The monolith-like castle overseeing and influencing all; it's lost outer bailey still marking out the limits of the market place. Earthen mound and ditch gave way to timber frame and then to stone, brick and portico, leaving behind a richly faceted landscape of decaying towers, rooftops, steeples and cobbles. Through the haphazard growth and decay of the town happy aesthetic coincidences create almost abstract compositions of form, pattern, texture and colour.”
