CURRENT EXHIBITION AND GENERAL SHOW AT

THE RAINYDAY GALLERY PENZANCE
22 MARKET JEW STREET PENZANCE CORNWALL
01736 366077 www: rainydaygallery.co.uk e-mail: info@rainydaygallery.co.uk

OPEN: MONDAY TO SATURDAY 10am to 5pm

Saturday March 6th to Friday April 2nd 2010

An Exhibition featuring members of
The Association of British Naive Artists

Noel Barker, Hannah Dosanjh, Alan Furneaux, Gabrielle Hawkes
Judy Joel, Roger Lowry, Christian May, Sarah Sloan

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The Association of British naïve Artists
ABNA stands for the Association of British Naïve Artists. It was formed in 2002 by Peter Denham aka “MISTER DENHAM” who had an article published in a leading art magazine in February 2003. The article prompted some hitherto unknown naïve painters as well as some better known naïve painters to write and ask about membership of the new Association.
All people’s tastes are different – and thank goodness, because it would be a dull world indeed if everyone thought exactly the same as the next person.
Peter once said that “most would agree that the international art arena has room enough for every conceivable genre, “ism” and opinion to be expressed without rancour”. However he did think that it was a little strange that despite the fact that in sale rooms and galleries naïve art passes hands regularly with five and six figure sums, it still appears to have no mainstream legitimacy in England and is rarely given much gallery attention or space within the popular art press, and is still not taken seriously by some trained artists of different styles.
Alan Bowness, who used to be at the Tate before Serroto, once said about Naïve art…..”Naïve painting is the discovery of the twentieth century. Naïve artists make an appearance when art becomes too precious and too clever. Someone with a natural gift, untrained, comes along and overturns everybody’s preconceived notions, and makes us rethink and return to a pre-renaissance naturalism”
Peter Denham had a dream which was to bring naïve art more credibility in the art world, and to strive for having a museum for British Naïve Art somewhere in the British Isles. He had made much progress and was hoping that by 2004 things would fall into place. Sadly Peter became ill in the Summer and died on Christmas Day of the same year. He had so much still to achieve and so the members – now numbering over 40, have been trying to make the dream a reality. ABNA members have had exhibitions in the Clare White Gallery in Yorkshire, and twice at The Crypt Gallery in St Ives, in Cornwall, Selected members have also exhibited in Putney in London, and in Lisbon in Portugal. The website of the Association is www.britishnaives.co.uk where most of the members have paintings to view. This will be the first time members of the Association have been invited to exhibit at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance.
Naïve Art
Naïve artists, whether or not they have had formal training, are outside the current movements and fashions of the fine art world. Their paintings are created out of love, even obsession, for their subjects.They present a fresh and startling perception – often of a visionary or dreamlike quality – of the world. During the last few years there has been a growing world-wide interest in naïve and primitive paintings, and in the United States and in Europe many public galleries have devoted special sections to this genre. Many artists dislike the terms “naive” and “primitive” to describe their work, which is often of a great visual subtlety and sophisticated design, but the other terms for this genre – folk, popular, innocent, self-taught artists etc. are equally unsatisfactory. If one things of “naive” as describing the straightforward and honest quality to be found in these paintings, and “primitive” as the direct response that they arouse in the viewer, then perhaps the terms are more acceptable


ALAN FURNEAUX


1.Summer Days at Marazion....................................£1450


HANNAH DOSANJH


2 Hags with Fags.....................................................£300


ALAN FURNEAUX
3. Porthminster Beach St Ives....................................£750
4. Spotty Jug . ........................................................£750


5. Sunday on Penzance Prom....................................£1850


6. The Scillonian ....................................................£1400


7. Graffiti on the Prom................................…......£950


SARAH SLOAN


8. Second Visit to St Ives.............£580


9. Birds Eye View of St Ives..........£630


10. Pansy Blue............................£300


11. Over Harry’s Court, St Ives.......£200


12. Mariners Church - St Ives........ £800
ROGER LOWRY


13. The Beach Girls..............£180


14. St Mary’s, Penzance.........£180


15. Corydalis 1987, Plymouth..£180


16. Mamon Well...................£180


17. Yellow Field, Lanteglas....£180


18. View Towards Trencrom....£180


19. Mounts Bay Looking to Mousehole........£180


20. Polgoon Skyline..............£180


JUDY JOEL


21. Winter Fun........................................................£775


22. Bowling in New Zealand......................................£900


23. Preparations for the Flower Show..........................£500
24. Kew Pagoda......................................................£300

26. The Church on Romney Marsh...............................£300


27. Downhill Run.....................................................£550


NOEL BARKER


28. A Good Catch.....................................................£225


29. Bucket and Nephew............................................£225


30. Fanny...............................................................£225
31. A String of Pearls...............................................£665


32. The Morris Men...................................................£665


33. Learning the Ropes............................................£665


HANNAH DOSANJH


34. Big Chopper...................................................... £300

35. Ruby.................................................................£250


36. Shiney New Things..............................................£300


37. Birthday Girl.......................................................£300


38. Bassey Boots.....................................................£300

 

CHRISTIAN MAY



39.When I went Swimming with my Mate Gary...£345


40. Everyday People................................................£450


41. Lost in London.............................................£675


42. Cheating in the Egg and Spoon..............................£525


43. Snow at Westminster..............................£525


44. Wendy - You’re in Goal!................................£675


GABRIELLE HAWKES


45. Dandelion Clock............................................£280


46. Woman with Tiger..............................................£300


47. Out of the Woods.............................................£300

48. Pilgrims...........................................................£300


49. Travelling Man..................................................£300


50. Dream of a Flying Horse...............................£180

 

A MIXED SHOW

51. Let Me Tell You..............Alice Newton..............................£200
52. Still Afternoon...............Alice Newton..............................£200
53. . What Comes Next..Alice Newton....................................£225
54. Head ................................Sheila Oliner..........................£175


55. Big Snail.................................Zoe Cameron.........................£500


56. Mounts Bay..................Lewis Mitchell..................................£850
57. Square...............................Roy Ray....................................£175


58. Girl with Dog and Bird.....Zoe Cameron..................................£500


59. Spring....................Janet Treloar.........................................£650
60. Sunset, Gwenvor.................Chris Hankey............................£1550


61. Untitled ...W Barns Graham.....Screen Print..........................£1500


62. Firewater............................Nick Williams............................£850


63. . ...this round....................Matthew Lanyon.........................£2500
64.The Green Towel................Alice Mumford..............................£580
65. Carn Kenidjack, Winter.....Carrie Taylor..................................£995
66.The Red Boat.......Nicola Bealing..monoprint .......................... £850
67. Handfull Of Weeds..Nicola Bealing.m/print..............................£700
68. Bramble and Seeds..................Carrie Taylor...........................£175
69. Pink/Blue Collage..............Carole McDowall............................£400
70. Porthmeor, Noon..............Alice Mumford................................£580
71. Fishwife II................Moreen Moss........................................£140
72. The Apple...............Nick Hellyer......................................£93 o.n.o.
73.Porthmeor Beach...........Lucie Bray..........................................£285
74. Landscape with Figures .....Hannah Carlsen..............................£350
75. Harbour Blues.........Emma Jeffryes..........................................£350

76. Resting Nude ...........Herbert Marshall...................................£350
77. Sunflowers.....................Brian Jay.........................................£580
78. Still Life.......................Alice Mumford................................£1100
79. Levant....................Anthony Bryant......................................£480
80. Charente Hamlet...............................Bob Vigg......................£550
81..Godrevy.........................Bob Vigg.........................................£650
82.. Blue & Red Boat...........Juliette Goodden................................£295
83. Red Wine....................................Brian Jay............................£400
84. Blue Boat...........................Juliette Goodden.......................£295
85. Before She Left...........Nick Williams......................................£420
86. Selfappointed Guide.........................Nick Williams...................£420
87.Landscape.................................Bob Bourne...........................£520


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