Elaine’s colourful paintings are inspired by the ways in which the landscape, the weather and the passing of time shape life in the far South West. Each work expresses an intriguing and individual narrative, a visual tale that begins with the drawings she makes outdoors from life.
Elaine’s scenes are delightfully familiar: walkers on the coast path battle wild and windy weather; cottages huddle close in narrow streets against the onslaught of winter gales; hedged lanes and muddy fields stretch out towards the smooth blue of the sea; gulls potter restlessly on chimney pots at dusk, and sea bathers gather for a night swim beneath the stars.
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Elaine Turnbull was raised in a seaside town in the North East, and her earliest memories are of the lighthouse at Souter, of waves crashing over sea walls, and of the foghorn at Marsden. She studied Art and Textile design at Newcastle and Edinburgh College of Art, and moved to Cornwall in 2009. Elaine is a member of the St Ives Society of Artists, an Associate member of the Penwith Society, and her work has been selected for the exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy. She works at her studio in West Cornwall, just four fields from the sea.
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