Retrospection - Paintings by Arthur Glendinning

Arthur's third solo exhibition at Harbour House takes the form of a retrospective, looking back over his thirty year career as an artist and illustrator. Early sketches and paintings in watercolour and gouache will hang alongside his more recent, ambitiously scaled acrylic paintings, taking a close look at the patterns in nature, and inspired by his travels in India and closer to home.

"My travels abroad have brought me into contact with art and artists of very different cultures, enriching my vision and ambitions as a painter. The work of eastern European primitives, and the art of India in particular, had a profound effect on my work. Drawn to nature and narrative, my work often suggests a story, reflecting my love of literature and in particular children's books. Working for most of my artistic life in illustration and design there are strong elements of these disciplines my work. In recent work I have painted on a much larger, almost theatrical scale. My images have a tableau effect, like stills from movie."

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