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- A series of 20 small-scale
landscape paintings produced with watercolour painter Mike Hoyles from dialogues following Pope's walks in the mountains
of Northern Italy.
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Introduction to the book:
- "But
should any of these rough abrupt parts be more strongly marked should
the rocks and the broken ground distinctly appear and their lines be
such as a painter would express by firm decided forcible touches of his
pencil then the picturesque would begin to prevail and in proportion as
that distinct and marked roughness and abruptness increased so far the
character of the beautiful would decrease."
- Uvedale Price, Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful. 1812
- Italy's
influence on Tatton Park is pervasive: in the paintings of Milan, the
prints of Venetian palaces and in the Italian Garden. The late Lady
Egerton's own watercolour paintings, displayed inside the Mansion
House, are equally indebted, depicting mountains and lakes of the
Italian Alps.This book draws together a number of
watercolours produced by Simon Pope in collaboration with watercolour
painter Mike Hoyles, echoing Lady Egerton's journeys and her
picturesque depictions of alpine landscape. Having walked in the
Alto-Adige/Südtirol and the Brenta Dolomites in May 2008, Pope returned
to Tatton Park to enter into dialogue with Hoyles. Recalling scenes
from memory, Pope described views of lakes and mountains encountered in
Italy. Finding common-ground in the language of pictorial composition,
the paintings' production was shared by the two artists; a composite of
imagined and remembered landscape, of the spoken-word and watercolour
on paper. The paintings bound into this artists' book are the result of
this process of negotiation and dialogue - between artists, landscape
and the conventions of their respective art practices.
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- Painting From Memory, watercolour, 2008
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