Truro to Tregaminion - Recent work by William Nash Sunday 9 September - Friday 28 September 2007 | ||
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William Nash moved to a remote part of East Cornwall to the small hamlet of Tregaminion just outside St. Austell seven years ago. He has finally decided to move back in to the town and part of the reason for this exhibition is for him to say goodbye to the place and to look towards new horizons. The shows is called Truro to Tregaminion and features many scenes local to these areas across the seasons. They include the leafy lanes around Veryan Green towards the costal village of Port Loe. In fact lanes surrounded by trees whether in full leaf in summer, or twisted and gnarled in winter, are a strong feature of this exhibition. The emptiness of the roads, which we expect to see with cars or people emphasize the remoteness of this part of Cornwall. There are also a substantial number of coastal scenes in the show and William uses his broad brushwork combined with heavily impasto areas to describe the rough rocks tumbling down to the sea around Gribbin Head. | |||||||
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William does not avoid painting human activity entirely and there are also paintings of the busy shopping bustle of Truro itself. William’s technique of painting largely with oil on paper is one that gives, for him, a unique advantage. “It allows me to work wet over dry in a relatively short period of time.” The textural surface of William Nash’s work is descriptive and not purely arbitery. “It is descriptive of what one perceives one has seen and it should be indicative of the struggle to put something down, - to get things to make sense and read as true.”
The other feature of William’s work is his use of light. He is particularly attracted to the challenge of painting dappled sunlight and it goes back to his early childhood. One of his first memories was of being put under a tree in the shade in his pram by his mother and looking at the dappled sunlight through the branches of the tree.
Tony and Yvonne Allkins who own and run Veryan galleries are pleased to be having a special exhibition of William’s work once again. Although it has been 3 years since his last show with them, the gallery continues to sell his work. There are over 20 works in the show and will be one of the biggest collection of William’s work to date in Cornwall.
