Front Cover: Oyster Catchers, oil on canvas, 39“ x 39“ (100cm x 100cm)

Emma McClure

30th June - 12th July

A catalogue of 20 new paintings from Emma McClure to celebrate 20 years of exhibiting with Cadogan Contemporary

C A D O G A NC O N T E M P O R A R Y

87 Old Brompton Road

London SW7 3LDTelephone: +44 (0)20 7581 5451

www.cadogancontemporary.com

Emma McClure’s paintings are works of character, beauty and hidden depths. There is incredible emotion that runs deep through this work that will draw the viewer back again and again.

Whether on canvas, on board or on paper we are taken somewhere very special indeed. Behind each subtle work is a calm and deeply moving passion that has empowered the artist to create her own unique atmosphere. In ‘Nesting Rooks’ and ‘Table by the Window’ Emma hints at how that atmosphere is created, through texture, through subtle mark making, through different layers, an economy of colour. Yet for her this process seems a very natural evolution.

At first sight her paintings are always pleasing but after repeated viewing, under closer scrutiny her magic truly reveals itself and continues to surprise and move us. Still lives such as ‘The Striped Vase’ that echo the beauty of Winifred Nicholson. Landscapes that recall the very best of Mary’s Fed-den’s work of the 1960’s and 1970s. Views of Bodmin Moor that remind us of Ben Nicholson’s Banks Head - Cumbrian Landscape (1928) at Kettles Yard. Emma’s roots are deep in a noble traditionand yet her work is instantly recognisable as her own, she has found her own language.

Ashley Gray

Gray MCA

May 2014

Moorland cattle field, oil on canvas, 46“ x 41“ (116cm x 105cm)

Sheep and Gorse, Bodmin Moor, oil on canvas, 39“ x 39“ (100cm x 100cm)

Striped Vase, oil on canvas, 39“ x 39“ (100cm x 100cm)

Pink Flowers, oil on canvas, 30“ x 30“ (76cm x 76cm)

Marshall Allotments, oil on canvas, 60“ x 60“ (152cm x 152cm)

The rough field, oil on canvas, 39“ x 47“ (100cm x 120cm)

Farmyard Chickens, oil on board, 27“ x 24“ (68cm x 61cm)

Allotment with Artichokes, oil on linen, 42“ x 25“ (107cm x 91cm)

The Newbridge chicken patch, oil on canvas, 39“ x 47“ (100cm x 120cm)

Waiting at the filling station, oil on canvas, 24“ x 30“ (61cm x 76cm)

Birds in the tree, oil on canvas, 30“ x 30“ (76cm x 76cm)

The Love Lane allotments, oil on board, 23“ x 33“ (59cm x 84cm)

Winter Berries, oil on canvas, 16“ x 16“ (40cm x 40cm)

Still life with Pussy Willow, oil on canvas, 24“ x 24“ (60cm x 60cm)

Table by the window, oil on canvas,48“ x 48“ (122cm x 122cm)

Marigolds and pears, oil on board, 22“ x 20“ (55cm x 50cm)

Wagon ‘R’ at the recycling centre, oil on board, 16“ x 20“ (40cm x 50cm)

Nesting Rooks, oil on canvas, 24“ x 24“ (60cm x 60cm)

Hill farm, Bodmin Moor, oil on canvas, 39“ x 39“ (100cm x 100cm)

Education1980-81 Falmouth School of Art1981-84 Winchester School of Art, BA Hons Fine Art1984-85 Chelsea School of Art, MA Painting Solo Exhibitions 1986 Angela Flowers Gallery, London, ‘Artist of the Day’1986,87,92 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London1989,93 Wolf at the Door Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall1994 – 2014 Cadogan Contemporary, London Selected Mixed Exhibitions1986 New Contemporaries, ICA1985-88 Contemporary Art Society, Art Market, Smiths Gallery, London1991 Jonathan Clark Gallery, London1997 Mothers and Daughters, Cadogan Contemporary1998-2004 Wilson Stephens Fine Art, London Art Fair1999,2000 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition1999,2007 Piers Feetham Summer Exhibition, Aldeburgh2000 Cadogan Contemporary Millennium Exhibition2000-2011 Thompsons Gallery London, Annual Exhibition2000-2012 Chase Charity Exhibition, RCA2002 Piers Feetham Gallery, London, ‘Thames 2002’2001-2012 Cadogan Contemporary, Summer Exhibition2001-2003 Singer & Friedlander, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London2005 Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, Two person show2005-2012 Cadogan Contemporary, Winchester exhibition2006 Thompsons Gallery, London, Three person show2006,07,10 Thompsons Gallery Aldeburgh, Annual Exhibition2007-2012 Cornwall Contemporary, Summer Exhibition2007 Thompsons Gallery London, ‘The Cornish Show’2008 Piers Feetham Gallery, London, Four Person show2009 Thompsons Gallery, London, Four person show2009,10,11,13 Cornwall Contemporary, Two person show2010,11,12,13 Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester, Spring and Autumn Exhibitions2011,12,13 20/21 British Art Fair, London, Gray and Modern Contemporary Art2012 Thompsons Gallery London, Howard de Walden exhibition2013,14 Gray Modern and Contemporary Art, London Art Fair2013,14 Gray Modern and Contemporary Art, Works on Paper Fair, London

Born 1962Emma McClure

C A D O G A NC O N T E M PO R A R Y

87 Old Brompton Road

London SW7 3LDTelephone: +44 (0)20 7581 5451

www.cadogancontemporary.com