Both Christopher and Ross share a desire to express the elemental in their work, with very different yet complementary results.
(Image removed)Using a series of washes and painted layers, Ross achieves a sense of the unpredictable and chaotic in his paintings and etchings (see Coastlines- right) , which have been described by The Sunday Times as ‘The malevolent face of Mother Nature.’
By contrast, Christopher draws quiet inspiration from the landscape around him, resulting in a work of an inescapable simplicity, like ‘Standing Dog’ (shown above).
He says ‘My sculptures have a quiet English based quality of man and nature in the way that we hear countryside through Britten or Vaughan Williams…You have to make art from what you know about - a celebration of locality."
Lynne Strover Gallery, now in its 26th year, is widely regarded as the best commercial art gallery in Cambridge. The gallery is both home and workplace for owner Lynne Strover, who has deftly created an exhibition space that is at once spacious and airy and yet homely and familiar. It is very much in the spirit of Jim Ede’s Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, which remains to true to his vision of showing modern art in an attractive and comfortable domestic setting.
This is Lynne’s 26th year as a gallerist. She says, “This is the first time the gallery has shown the East Anglian artists work together – and the result is really exciting. Ross’s paintings full of swirling movement and energy are the perfect foil to Christopher’s mannered bronzes."
Top Image: Christopher Marvell | Standing Dog | Bronze| 17 x 29 ins, edition of 3
Inset image: Ross Loveday | Coastllines
Lynne Strover Gallery
23 High Street, Fen Ditton
Cambridge CB5 8ST
Tel: + 44 (0)1223 295264
*******
The colourful and informative book, Independent Cambridge, is available from Waterstones, Heffers, many of the independent shops and online at www.independent-cambridge.co.uk