50 x £50, 2021

"Blue Pine is painting of a pine that I’m obsessed with since it was damaged in a storm 8 years ago. I’ve painted it hundreds of times as it’s so wonderfully sculptural and shows of the huge skies out to the Atlantic. I love the many metaphors you can apply to it’s stoic resilience, defiant yet adapting to whatever the weather fronts subject it to.

The skies, footpaths, trees and seas I see again and again day after day. These are the motifs I repeat, rework, destroy and process. The manipulation of paint and the subtle surprises achieved through many cycles of putting on and taking off is what facilitates my surreal recreation of a place. Half remembered, half imagined, familiar and sublime.” - Kerry Harding, 2021

A work of this size by Kerry Harding would usually sell for £850.

Accolades

BA (Hons), Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, 1994. MA, Falmouth University Cornwall, 2003.

Awards: NSA Critics Choice, Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall, 2005.

Selected Exhibitions: The Aborealists, The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, 2019. Winter at the Byre, The Byre Gallery, Cornwall, 2019. Breath, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon, 2019. The Prince's Trust Auction, Highgrove, Gloucestershire, 2019. The Spring Auction, The Auction Collective, London, 2019. Winter, Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Cornwall, 2018. Sea Fever, The Auction Collective, London, 2018. Hidden Depths, The Byre Gallery, Cornwall, 2018.

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