The Padstow Studio

The Padstow Studio

The Padstow Studio is an artist-run gallery and studio combined, and offers the opportunity to view a constantly changing selection of contemporary paintings, drawings and works in bronze, by a group of artists working in Cornwall, and further afield. All works on show are original pieces by established artists.

The gallery first opened in March 2006, and will re-open on December 7th with an improved and extended exhibition space.

Padstow Studio Artists

Sarah Adams

SARAH ADAMS is a landscape painter who works mainly in oil, but also occasionally in watercolour. Her current work is concerned with the structure, texture, light and flow of the Cornish coastline around Padstow, and varies in size from 6” studies on paper and panel, to 6' canvases. All of the work originates from drawings and oil studies made on site, while the larger pieces are produced over a period of months in the studio above the Gallery.

Sarah studied at Falmouth School of Art, Gloucestershire College of Art & Technology and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1987. Since then she has exhibited regularly, most recently at SW1 Gallery in London.

Prices:
• observational studies on paper/panel: £240 - £680
• canvases: £900 - £6,000
• watercolours: £600 - £800

Lynn Golden

LYNN GOLDEN is based in the Roseland peninsular, and works primarily in pastel, but also in acrylic. She is a pastel consultant for Dayler Rowney, and has painted and exhibited in Cornwall, London and elsewhere for 25 years, including working trips to France, Spain, Italy and Barbados. This year Lynn has started to work from North Cornwall subjects, and these can be viewed at the Padstow studio.

Drawing on site in the landscape dominates Lynn's work, which is vibrant and decisive. A favourite subject is the beach in summer, each piece a record of the activities of the day, crowded with figures, beach umbrellas and windbreakers. Lynn also works from still life subjects in the studio. Through all her work there is a love of colour and a sophisticated use of materials.

Prices: £220 -- £950.

Mo Farquharson

MO FARQUHARSON works in bronze. Her pieces are figurative, beautifully observed evocations of everyday life, and affectionate studies of animals, birds and fish. They are hard won, the culmination of a process of visual research and preliminary work in clay, from which they are cast in a lost-wax process.

Mo is represented in a number of important collections, has exhibited widely and carried out large-scale public and corporate projects. She will also except small, private commissions.

Prices: from £500.

Anita Taylor

ANITA TAYLOR works principally from the figure, exploring identity, emotion and narrative through self-portrait, and the interaction of figures in settings which are at once highly theatrical, but also intimate and symbolic. Her charcoal drawings form part of a continuous strand of pieces which document 20 years of post-graduate development.

In Oyster-catcher, the identity of the artist's model becomes the subject of the painting. Surrounded by objects which carry a personal significance, time stands still for her, providing the cat (a reference to Chardin) with its opportunity.

Anita is currently, the Dean of College of Wimbledon School of Art, Professor of Fine Arts, and the co-author of Foundation Course Drawing (Cassell illustrated 2003). She is also director and co-founder of the Jerwood Drawing Prize.

Prices: drawings from £695. Paintings from £650