journeys in the southwest ebook
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Published by White Space Art to coincide with the solo show by Devon landscape artist, David Morgan.TRANSCRIPT
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For this exhibition I have made journeys to some favourite spots and to some unfamiliar places. I didn’t always end up where I initially chose to go due to the weather or the number of people about, even curious Dartmoor ponies can play a role in determining my final destination. I have to feel that I am in the right place before I start to work.
The cycle from my house to the Exe estuary takes about an hour, a slow trip as I am weighed down by painting paraphernalia. I often followed the course of the river until I came in sight of the sea. This spring the estuary was very quiet as no trains were running after the storm damage at Dawlish.
On another day, I drove to Sidmouth where I found the beach closed, a fence put across its entrance. I asked a man if I could go and paint. He said it was crazy closing the beach and told me to go ahead but to be careful. I was rewarded by beautiful waves and silvery light as well as having the beach to myself. The next week I was up on Dartmoor. Here, billowing spring clouds from the south dominated the skies and curlews flew around. Stone walls had been knocked down in places – winter storms again perhaps – so there was little shelter on Rippon Tor.
When I am out painting I like to piece together the landscape so I always carry a map with me and will use it during the day to get a bearing of where I am, relating it to other places I have painted. From the top of Rippon Tor you can see down to Shaldon and Teignmouth and then inland across to Yar Tor and beyond. My paintings are in no way topographical but by looking across from where I am painting it is important to me to get to know where I am and to give the paintings a sense of the places I have travelled to.
David Morgan, September 2014
1. (cover image)
Summer Surfoil on board 79 x 120cms
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Walking in Polzeathoil on board 30 x 113cms
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Summer Seaoil on board 74 x 111cms
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River Dart, Badger’s Holtoil on board 60 x 83cms
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Port Isaac, Full Tideoil on board 26 x 32cms
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Sunny Day, Port Isaacoil on board 26 x 32cms
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Exmouthoil on board 30 x 113cms
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Golden Light, Rippon Toroil on board 77 x 81cms
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Squally Showers, Burgh Islandoil on board 18 x 69 cms
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Burgh Island From Beacon Pointoil on board 30 x 113cms
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Shoreline, Tortoiseshell Rocksoil on board 60 x 120cms
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Billowing Clouds, Hemsworthy Gateoil on board 28 x 82cms
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Honeybag Toroil on board 25 x 82cms
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Top Tor, Pil Toroil on board 19 x 87cms
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Blustery Day, Exe Estuaryoil on board 47 x 68cms
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From Powderhamoil on board 51 x 71cms
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The Beach at Bigburyoil on board 34 x 59cms
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Rain Over Yar Toroil on board 34 x 54cms
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Fishing Boats at Dusk, Port Isaacoil on paper 31 x 40cms
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Early Evening, Teignmouthoil on paper 31 x 40cms
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On Holwell Toroil on board 19 x 25cms
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Summer Mooroil on board 27 x 21cms
David John Morgan David was born in 1964.. He lives in Devon with his wife and three children.
Education 1983-86 Winchester School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art – PaintingResidencies1988-92 Artist in Residence, North Kingston Centre, Kingston-upon-Thames, London2002 Cultural Exchange, British and Indian Artists, Calcutta and New Delhi. Solo Exhibitions 2012 The Sun Comes Out, White Space Art2010 A Wider Sky, White Space Art, Totnes2008 A Devon Summer, White Space Art, Totnes2006 Adam Street, London 2005 Untitled Gallery, Hampstead2004 Gascoigne Gallery, Harrogate2000 Skyline, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames1999 Travels in Spain and France, Barn GalleriesSelected Exhibitions2014 White Space Art Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Chelsea Art Fair2013 White Space Art Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Affordable Art Fair, Battersea and Hampstead Chelsea Art Fair
2012 White Space Art Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, Battersea and Bristol2011 White Space Art Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, Battersea and Bristol2010 White Space Art Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Affordable Art Fair, Battersea and Bristol2009 White Space Art Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Polka, Exeter Affordable Art Fair, Battersea and Bristol Edinburgh & Cambridge Art Fair2008 White Space Art Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Polka, Exeter Affordable Art Fair, Battersea and Bristol Art Depot, North Finchley2007 Moor To Sea, White Space Art Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Polka, Exeter Affordable Art Fair, Battersea and Bristol2006 Three Men In a Boat, White Space Art Gascoigne Gallery, Harrogate Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames Polka, Exeter Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
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Published by White Space Art, Totnes to accompany the exhibitionJourneys in the Southwest, 4-18 October, 2014
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