Richard Whadcock: Borrowed Light
Cadogan Contemporary is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by the artist Richard Whadcock. Borrowed Light will run from the 22nd February to the 12th March.
Richard Whadcock's contemporary landscape paintings capture the ever-changing atmospheres of the South Downs and the Sussex coast. From silent stillness to squally days, the landscape itself is only a starting point, as a central theme is developed or expanded on based on a framework of memory and intuition. His works reflect a sense of place, with light, space and air becoming the central subject of each painting. Elements in the landscape are reduced to marks, lines and shapes with small subtleties expanding before the viewer.
These new works are mostly a series recording one early morning along the coast by Whadcock's studio. The paintings deal with a transition in the landscape from one state to another as the sun rose to break through the sea mist. It is these drifts in and out of focus that evoke a sense of place and a passage of time. No painting is a singular moment, instead they track the fluidity of the landscape as familiar details are exposed or expunged by mist, rain and intense morning sun. This amorphous sense of line and shape, developing with the conditions experienced in the landscape, is synonymous with Richard Whadcock's work.
Cadogan Contemporary has been showing Richard Whadcock's works since 2019 and this will be his first solo exhibition with the gallery
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Chased Path ,oil on canvas120cm x 100cm (47" x 39")
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Cast,oil on canvas150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Chased Path ,oil on canvas120cm x 100cm (47" x 39")
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Cast,oil on canvas150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Awaiting Dawn,oil on canvas150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Concealing Dawn,oil on canvas120cm x 100cm (47" x 39")
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Crossing Headlands ,oil on canvas160cm x 160cm (63" x 63")
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Dancing Light ,oil on canvas120cm x 120cm (47" x 47")
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Dusk Pales ,oil on canvas100cm x 100cm (39" x 39")
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Distant Sky ,oil on canvas140cm x 200cm (55" x 79")
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Draws Breath ,oil on canvas140cm x 200cm (55" x 79")
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Borrowed Light,oil on canvas150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Early Rise ,oil on canvas100cm x 100cm (39" x 39")
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Fading Sun,oil on canvas120cm x 100cm (47" x 39")
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Morning Cover,oil on canvas160cm x 160cm (63" x 63")
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Penumbra ,oil on canvas140cm x 200cm (55" x 79")
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Land Division ,oil on canvas200cm x 200cm (79" x 79")
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Stillness Beneath ,oil on canvas150cm x 150cm (59" x 59")
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Shadows Reach ,oil on canvas200cm x 200cm (79" x 79")
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Trails ,oil on canvas150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Travellers Grace ,oil on canvas150cm x 150cm (59" x 59")
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Waking Day ,oil on canvas120cm x 100cm (47" x 39")
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Inhale the Morn ,oil on paper70cm x 50cm (28" x 20")
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Deep Dusk ,oil on paper70cm x 50cm (28" x 20")
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Exposed Chalk ,oil on paper70cm x 50cm (28" x 20")
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Field Line ,oil on paper50cm x 70cm (20" x 28")
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Cadence,oil on paper50cm x 70cm (20" x 28")
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Lake Walk ,oil on paper70cm x 50cm (28" x 20")
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Levels ,oil on paper50cm x 70cm (20" x 28")
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Red Earth ,oil on paper70cm x 50cm (28" x 20")
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Linkway ,oil on paper70cm x 50cm (28" x 20")