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Frank Gordon
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| Career | I was born in Westhoughton, Lancashire in 1943 and studied at Bolton College of Art from 1958 to 1963 (gaining my National Diploma in Design that year) before entering art teaching, first in Lancashire and then Yorkshire after 'emigrating' across the Pennines in 1972. I continued to paint throughout my teaching career, exhibiting widely in the north of England. During this period I gained an Honours Degree from the Open University, an Advanced Diploma in Art Education from Bretton Hall College and an MA in Art and Design from Leeds Metropolitan University. This was, at least in part, in pursuance of my belief that the practice of making art is a synthesis of related values - emotional, spiritual and intellectual.
Consider what happens when we see a landscape. Is there simply a natural perception of a natural object? Well, no. Our countryside is the complex product of centuries of labour and the way we view it is shaped by a weighty inheritance - think of the Arcadian myth, the Grand Tour, the Romantic poets, ideas of the Picturesque and the Sublime, the English Landscape tradition, the National Parks, etc. For many years I have been exploring ways of dealing with this cultural framing of the landscape. Moving to the Yorkshire Dales a couple of years ago has lent an extra dynamic to this preoccupation. I am currently exploring how my continued preoccupations as an artist might be related to these new surroundings and how they are perceived. Living in the Dales National Park and on the edge of the Three Peaks country of Ingleborough, Whernside and Penyghent, I have become increasingly fascinated by the grandeur and sweep of this great landscape. I have begun to focus more closely on my experiences when out walking the hills, especially by the dramatic way in which one can be suddenly overtaken and swallowed up by weather, the fleeting nature of sense impressions .... flickering light, glimmers of sun, enveloping mists, the clouds' scurrying shadows, buffeting wind, rainwater on the face. For me the act of painting is a re-creation of that original experience. Yet there's a feeling of permanence in the solid limestone rocks and the bulk of the hills. Behind the fragmented and often bewildering assaults on one's senses there lies the underlying stability of geology, hard and unyielding. This collision between the eternal and the ephemeral is a good subject for a painter. |
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| Talks - Demonstrations | I present a slideshow of 45/60 minutes (as required) with two related themes:
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| Exhibition Venues Include | Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool Artists Show, Leeds City Art Gallery Cartwright Hall, Bradford Crescent Arts, Scarborough Derwent College, University of York Harding House Gallery, Lincoln Lawrence Batley Centre Gallery, Bretton Hall Leeds Art Fair Linton Court Gallery, Settle Lotherton Hall, Leeds (solo exhibition) Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Open Exhibition Manor House, Ilkley (paired exhibition) Mid-Pennine Arts Gallery, Burnley Patchings Art Festival Sultan Gallery, Lancaster (paired exhibition) Yorkshire Artists Exhibition, Skipton |
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My work can also be viewed on my website at www.frankgordon.co.uk at the Axis contemporary visual artists database online at www.axisartists.org.uk/all/ref3371.htm And at Look Gallery, Helmsley, Wallker Galleries, Harrogate |
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| Mediums | Oils, Acrylics | |
Speciality |
Landscapes | |
| Fees | Negotiable plus travelling at cost - usually £10 locally but prepared to travel anywhere with expenses covered by host society. | |
Contact |
Frank Gordon Haymeads, The Mains, Giggleswick, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 0AX England, UK |
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| Internet: | www.frankgordon.co.uk | |
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+44 (0)1729 824638 |
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