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2nd July 2020
Categories: Visitor News
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First Contemporary Gallery, an online gallery based in the South West of England, is pleased to announced the release of Salcombe, a new online art book that explores artist Elaine Jones’ continuing love for the landscape and coastline of Salcombe, South Devon.
All too aware of the threat of climate change and biodiversity loss, Elaine is keen to celebrate the wonder of nature through her oil paintings. Speaking about her passion, Elaine said: “I think it is important to get back into nature, to be in it and to love it makes you want to save it.”
Immersing herself in South Devon’s landscape, even taking to the water to sketch, Elaine’s abstract paintings evoke her intimate and physical experiences of the sea and land through the seasons. Throughout the paintings, Elaine balances serene expanses of space with thicker, gestural marks and playful luminosity that brilliantly captures the movement of light on the water. The book gives a behind the scenes insight into Elaine’s process from the initial sketches to the development of the paintings at her studio and the resulting beautiful collection of work depicting the coastline around the Salcombe Estuary.
Salcombe has long been a favourite of visitors to Devon’s south coast, Hannah Stuart-Leach, Travel Writer, said: “Salcombe is a book that feels to me like the eye of the storm. It is for being still and taking stock. Finding grace in the particular swirls of the sea in summer evening light or celebrating that beloved place that draws us back again and again. For no matter what lies ahead, nature, as long as we protect it, will always be our sanctuary.”
Salcombe is available to view online now here.
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