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SUMMARY:ArtHouse Gallery: ArtHouse: Land\, Sea\, Sky - Frank Barnes
DESCRIPTION:LAND\, SEA and SKY\nFrank Barnes\n6th-17th July 2021\nTues-Fri:
  10am-3pm/Sat: 11am-4pm\nArtHouse\nSouthport Contemporary Arts\n65 Eastban
 k Street\, Southport\nPR8 1EJ\nwww.sca-network.co.uk\nAlthough Frank Barne
 s lives and works in Southport\, his colourful and instinctive conceptual 
 paintings have been exhibited across the UK\, Europe and North America. Ke
 en eyed ‘sandgrounders’ will now have the opportunity to catch up with
  Frank’s latest artwork at The ArtHouse in July. Titled\, ‘Land\, Sea 
 and Sky’\, Frank explains\, “although my paintings are non- figurative
 \, they are not necessarily abstract. All my work is laden with representa
 tional sources and references related to memories of locations and events.
  Such memories are of being in places and memories of experiences.” For 
 his latest group of paintings Frank admits to being “inspired by the lig
 ht\, shadow\, colours and textures of landscape and in particular coastal 
 horizons and skies.” Adding\, “Painting for me\, is like taking a walk
 \, you never know quite which way you’re going to go or what you’ll fi
 nd yourself focusing on.”\nFrank’s regular exercise routine has certai
 nly fed into his current display of paintings: “Living on the coast I ta
 ke the opportunity to take daily walks throughout the year along the coast
 line. Walking through a familiar landscape\, such as the Sefton coastline\
 , at different times of the day or year\, in brilliant summer sunlight\, o
 r on a dark grey afternoon I don’t always take the same route\, and come
  upon familiar things from a different angle. You see them in a new settin
 g.”\nThere is certainly an impressionistic freedom evident in Frank’s 
 spontaneous mark-making that reinforces his passion for 20th century art a
 nd its creators.\nFrank’s large acrylic painting\, ‘Into The Mystic’
  is typical of his distinctive approach: “The painting takes its title f
 rom a Van Morrison song of the same name\, inspired by sunrise as dawn is 
 breaking over the beach close to where I live. This painting intends to ca
 pture the dramatic atmosphere of a glorious sunrise just as dawn is breaki
 ng. Light from the early morning sun cascades onto the wet beach. It is a 
 breezy morning and the receding tidal waves are capped in white. This isn
 ’t a literal painting. It doesn’t attempt to replicate a ‘scene’\,
  but it does try to capture the atmosphere of an open beach seascape. I se
 e it as a hopeful image that looks to the future\, that takes us into the 
 light and away from these recent dark times.”
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