Susan Isaac - contemporary artist

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	Susan's solo exhibition of West Cornwall landscape paintings ran from Dec 2007 to Apr 2008 initially at the BULL YARD GALLERY, Southwell and subsequently at the Southwell Medical Centre.
	View the: Southwell Medical Centre Catalogue Bull Yard Catalogue

St Ives from Pedn Olva
oil on canvas (30x76cm)

Susan Isaac's recent solo exhibition focused on the landscape around St Ives and the Penwith peninsula of west Cornwall. Susan's first visits to the Cornish coast took the form of childhood summer holidays, sparking a lifelong love for the area.

The series of paintings that formed the core of the exhibition reflect the particular quality and clarity of light on the Cornish coast in summer. They evoke the subtle harmonising colours of the region with its silvery granite buildings tinged by saffron lichen, and juxtaposed against teal-blue sea and pale ochre beach sand.

Smeaton's Pier
at St Ives
oil on canvas
(40x40cm)

Engine house
at Botallack
oil on canvas
(40x50cm)

They also emphasise the solidity of the landscape, both natural and man-made, contrasted with the human life flowing over it - so that transient outlined figures play, gaze and journey through the picturesque settings of which they are a part. Some reveal landscapes haunted by the remains of past human industry.

Underlying Susan's paintings of the Cornish coast is a sense of the never-ending movement of the sea. Rising and falling waters hide and reveal beaches and rocks and pour between sea walls to fill and then empty harbours as if they were great languorous hourglasses - part of a shoreline undulating to the rhythm of 'time and tide'.

The Harbour at Mousehole
oil on canvas (40x91cm)

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