Rupert
White
Stream-Lined (Lamorna)
DVD video/crayon on canvas
For Rupert White finding authentic ways to express landscape as an artist is very important, avoiding the quaint, sentimental or the nostalgic. His aim is to enable himself and the audience to re-establish a true relationship with the landscape.
The Newlyn painters were keen on working in the open air (en plein-air). Moving their easels out of the studio was a step towards engaging more closely with the landscape. White is keen to explore further ways to make the landscape less of a passive object of contemplation and more active in the making of the artwork. Making it an equal partner in the creation is an attempt to blur the traditional boundaries between subject and object.
These pieces were made on the banks of the stream at Lamorna, near the low bridge at the watermill. The Lamorna Valley, and this particular spot in the stream, was one of the favourite subjects for a number of artists associated with the Newlyn School, most famously Lamorna Birch and Alfred Munnings.
Stream-Lined (Lamorna)
DVD video/crayon on canvas
For Rupert White finding authentic ways to express landscape as an artist is very important, avoiding the quaint, sentimental or the nostalgic. His aim is to enable himself and the audience to re-establish a true relationship with the landscape.
The Newlyn painters were keen on working in the open air (en plein-air). Moving their easels out of the studio was a step towards engaging more closely with the landscape. White is keen to explore further ways to make the landscape less of a passive object of contemplation and more active in the making of the artwork. Making it an equal partner in the creation is an attempt to blur the traditional boundaries between subject and object.
These pieces were made on the banks of the stream at Lamorna, near the low bridge at the watermill. The Lamorna Valley, and this particular spot in the stream, was one of the favourite subjects for a number of artists associated with the Newlyn School, most famously Lamorna Birch and Alfred Munnings.