Chappel Galleries - Alexander Pemberton

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Lane to the sea, Normandy 2001 - Alexander Pemberton

"Lane to the sea, Normandy 2001" 46 x 66 cm

High Tide at North Woolwich 2005 Oil 48x63 £1,700	Boats at Landamer, Normandy 2006 Oil 76x101 £2,600	Low Tide at North Woolwich 2004 Oil 51x66 £1,700	Galilee 2 2002-3 Oil 23x33 £750
The Thames at Lovells Wharf 2005 Oil 61x81 £1,850	Barge at Lovell’s Wharf 2005 Oil 51x69 £1,700	The Thames at North Woolwich 1 1994 Oil 63x76 £1,800	Walnut Tree 1 2003 Oil 41x28 £850
Lane in Fermanville 2005 Oil 49x39 £900	Houses in Fermanville 2002 Oil 51x61 £1,200	Yew Tree, Carneville 2003 Oil 61x46 £1,200	Lane to the Sea, Normandy 2003 Oil 46x66 £1,500
In the Old City 2002-3 Oil 44x32 £850	View of the Sea, Fermanville 2 2003 Oil 45x71 £1,350	Maryon Wilson Park 1997 Oil 116x167 £5,000	View of the Sea, Fermanville 1 2004 Oil 44x85 £1,600
Gravel Works 2004 Oil 48x58 £1,400	Gravel Works with Buddleia 2005 Oil 51x63 £1,500	Jerusalem 2 2002-3 Oil 31x45 £850	View of Jerusalem 1 2002-3 Oil 44x54 £950
Galilee with Eucalyptus 2 2002-3 Oil 27x54 £850	The White Door 2005 Oil 35x81 £1,500	Bolero 2004 Oil 29x61 £950	Estuary at St Germain 2005 Oil 68x91 £2,300
Blue Cranes 1, Thames 2005 Oil 33x64 £1,250	Cherry Trees 1 2003 Oil 61x71 £1,700	Valley at Carneville 2001 Oil 46x101 £1,800	The Thames with Elder Tree 2005 Oil 57x71 £1,700
Rhododendrons 1997 Oil 116x151 £4,500	Ravine, Yeravan 2004 Gouache 36x50 £600	Selling Honey, Garni 2005 Gouache 35x49 £500	Outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 2002-3 Oil 57x43 £950
Blue Cranes 2, Thames 2006 Oil 40x66 £1,500	Scene in Fermanville 2005 Oil 51x41 £950	Talking with Gerry, Deptford 2003 Gouache 50x76 £950	T-shirts, Deptford 2003 Gouache 72x56 £900
Deptford, Evening 2004 Gouache 56x75 £950	Afternoon, Deptford 2004 Gouache 69x53 £950	Galilee 1 2002-3 Oil 36x59 £950	The Thames at North Woolwich 2 1994 Oil 41x51 £950

ALEXANDER PEMBERTON

1957	Born in Shrewsbury
1987-8	Camberwell School of Art
1978-81	Chelsea School of Art, BA(Hons) in Fine Art (Painting)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1985	Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Council, Canning House, London
1986	Wigmore Hall, London
1987	Bishopsgate Institute, London
1988	East Gallery, Aldgate, London
1989	'Mayan Tales', Paintings of Mexico, Tumi, Oxford
1990	Morley Gallery, London
1992	Cadogan Contemporary
1999	The Institute of Child Health
2004	Highgate Literary & Scientific Institute
2005	Colours of Armenia, All Hallows by the Tower, London
2006	Chappel Galleries, Essex

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1988	Lamont Gallery
1988	Richmond Fellowship Arts Fair
1988	'Space' Studios Fair, Air Gallery
1988	'Landscape as Catalyst', Knapp Gallery, Regent's Park
1988	Constable Art Competition, Camden Arts Centre
1989	Royal Academy Summer Show
1990	Tobacco Dock Festival Show
1991	Austin Desmond Fine Art: 'Camberwell Painters II'
1993	Llewellyn Alexander Gallery
1994	Cadogan Contemporary
1994	New Burlington Gallery
1995,6	Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh
1996	'Brussels-London' Touring Exhibition, European Parliament Building Brussels
1997	Henley Exhibition Centre, Henley
1998	New English Art Club, Mall Galleries
1999	The Importance of Drawing', Royal Museum, Canterbury
1999	The Art Connection, Eton
2000	The River', St Alphege's, Greenwich
2000	Llewellyn Alexander Gallery
2003	'Pilgrimages', St Katherine Cree, EC3
2003	Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition
2003,5	New Grafton Gallery, SW13

PRIZES & AWARDS

1980	Magnolia National Landscape Competition, 2nd prize
1981	Magnolia National Landscape Competition, 1st prize
1981,2	British Council Scholarship to paint in Seville, Spain
1983,4	Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award to paint in Mexico
1995,6	Mural Commission for Sandwich Technology School, Kent (funded by Foundation for Sport & the Arts)
2003,4	Commissioned Artist for Biblelands charity, working in Israel/Palestine and Armenia

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

	Alico Ltd
	International Mexican Bank
	Jennifer Saunders Michael
	Bell Design Simonson
	Finnegan Design

‘Lane to the sea, Normandy 2001’. How spare the picture is! Pared down to its essentials. The building in sunlight on the left juts into the picture. It is physically felt as a material presence, supported by the dark tree and the exact shadow on the road with a lone figure on its boundary. She gives the picture space. “I can’t do trees” says Alex, but he can. He makes them work for the picture. How well judged is the fretted tree on the bank with its internal shadow echoing the roof of the house. In the foreground there is a wonderful flat uncongested sheet of yellow gravel.

Edward Hopper’s Pictures come to mind. They too are architectonic and the title ‘Certain half deserted streets’ could well apply to him. Both artists are very deliberate and deal with essentials.

Alexander has been painting the Thames near where he lives for a considerable time. He paints on the spot and he also paints in the studio. Returning to the same subject again and again makes the picture dense and substantial. Very often there is a large expanse of water. It seems to have stillness, almost a silence which breaks into a flurry of notes, usually a gathering of architectural detail.

‘Boats at Landamer’ (Normandy) is a fine example of a picture much worked on in the studio which has an iconic dream-like quality. I am reminded of Robert Hughes's words that there is a need for slow art. Certainly Alex’s pictures reveal themselves slowly. They are deliberate and distilled as only a slow refining process can produce. Never more so than in the splendidly sombre ‘Maryon Wilson Park’. It is a daring picture, the result of three summers’ to-ing and fro-ing. To see is one thing, but to know and understand is another.

Finally there are some beautiful gouaches which capture the light and freshness of foreign places. In all he paints very personal pictures. Their simplicity makes them strong and finely tuned.

Anthony Eyton RA

ALEXANDER PEMBERTON Certain half-deserted streets

ALEXANDER PEMBERTON
Certain half-deserted streets