Potentate II: Ithell Colquhoun, Penlee House Gaery and Museum
Ithell Colquhoun: Image and Imagination
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
16 January — 19 March 2016
Ithell Colquhoun (1906 – 1988), an artist drawn by the
‘Gaelic melodies’ of West Penwith, captured the beauty
of nature in her paintings and writing from the solitude
of her refuge, a simple hut in the Lamorna Valley.
Colquhoun’s art combined naturalistic painting with
experiments in surrealism and abstraction. She worked
in many media and ventured into techniques such
as decalomania, frottage and fumage. This, the first
exhibition in a public gallery since her death, shows an
intriguing selection of pictures spanning her six decade
artistic career, with particular emphasis on her work on
the human in nature.
Details to this exhibition can be found here: Penlee House
Find out more about this Ithell Colquhoun Artist, Writer & Occultist here: http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/index.htm
Detail:
Landscape with Antiquities, 1955
Ithell Colquhoun
