JONATHAN PITTS
‘I find that when I am in a landscape, I am aware of everything happening around me, the wildlife is constantly moving, the clouds are changing every second and the land is being cultivated and shaped. Nothing is still, everything moves. In my painting I am trying to create an image where nothing feels still, where you feel that you are in that landscape.’
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Awards
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, 2nd prize.
Sail Loft Bursary, awarded by Falmouth College of Arts.
Selected Exhibitions and Galleries
Cotswold Contemporary, Burford & Cirencester.
Soho Fine Art, Guildford & Brighton.
Aura Fine Art, Guildford
The Hook, London.
The Art Agency, Esher.
Silson Contemporary, Harrogate.
Off the Wall gallery, Cardiff.
The Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour.
Fountain Fine Art, Llandelio.
Pure Art, Milford Haven.
Beside the Avon, Number 8 Gallery, Pershore.
Beside the Avon, Oxford University Press.
Midlands Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington.
National Open Art Exhibition, Little Buckland Gallery.
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2011 & 2014, the Mall galleries, London.
RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition 2012 & 2013, Bankside Gallery, London.
158th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
ABOUT THE PAINTINGS
'My paintings are images of a real landscape. They are a balance between what is there or what is real and what I want to express. They are not images of a fixed point in time, they show a landscape that is constantly moving and changing. My paintings are about experiencing the landscape.
The paintings represent how the landscape felt and looked to me over a particular period. The landscape changes its appearance constantly whilst the paintings are made, clouds roll by and the light shifts, these things influence the pieces.
They are a record of the experience of being there. Painting in a landscape that is evolving in front of you is exciting and intense. I try to match the intensity of the experience with an intense way in which to paint. Paint is thrown, paint is poured and scraped, nothing is off limits, the paint is worn away like the overused footpaths. I use whatever I can to make marks, I improvise tools on the spot from the surrounding landscape. The place itself leaves a mark on the painting.'
Jonathan Pitts
