Nicola
Bealing
A Good Catch
oil on canvas
Another Courting Story
oil on canvas
As a figurative/narrative painter Nicola Bealing had the idea that she wished to base her work for the Lineage project on the people who appear in the original Newlyn School paintings; to somehow hear the voice of the subjects rather than the artists.
It was during a conversation with Alison Beven of Penlee House Gallery and Museum that she learnt of the journals and novels by Charles Lee.
He was a writer who came to Newlyn From London in 1892 (aged 23) for health reasons and lodged with the Simons family in Fore Street. He quickly became friends with the resident Newlyn School painters- playing piano and writing scripts for their entertainments, while at the same time keeping his journal, noting and recording daily events around him in Newlyn.
He writes sympathetically, humourously, without judgement and with an acute ear for the dialect he was hearing around him. Two of his anecdotes, below, gave her the inspiration for the narrative paintings shown.
A Good Catch
oil on canvas
Another Courting Story
oil on canvas
As a figurative/narrative painter Nicola Bealing had the idea that she wished to base her work for the Lineage project on the people who appear in the original Newlyn School paintings; to somehow hear the voice of the subjects rather than the artists.
It was during a conversation with Alison Beven of Penlee House Gallery and Museum that she learnt of the journals and novels by Charles Lee.
He was a writer who came to Newlyn From London in 1892 (aged 23) for health reasons and lodged with the Simons family in Fore Street. He quickly became friends with the resident Newlyn School painters- playing piano and writing scripts for their entertainments, while at the same time keeping his journal, noting and recording daily events around him in Newlyn.
He writes sympathetically, humourously, without judgement and with an acute ear for the dialect he was hearing around him. Two of his anecdotes, below, gave her the inspiration for the narrative paintings shown.