exhibitions
home • land • rhythm
7th October - 28th October 2017
In his second major solo exhibition with Doubtfire, Simon Rivett return to his childhood home to revisit the sites of his earliest works, painting landscape on the border between Cumbria, Northumberland and the North Pennines. The resulting collection builds on his earlier work, both in Iceland and the Hebrides, in exploring the relationship between people and the land and how it have been shaped by weather, agriculture and land management over thousands of years. Simon produces masterful work with an immense depth of feeling. “Moving away from direct representation, the visual rhythms in the landscapes I create are a nod to my inspirations and influences from music and the arts. Always reflecting the fun and sheer joy of the acts of observing, analysing and painting.”
Exhibition Images
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Simon Rivett
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
Simon Rivett trained at Goldsmiths College in London and gained a BA (Honours) in Fine Art. He has been painting landscape from his days as a student, painting the declining industrial landscape of his home in Newcastle, living and working in Lewis and exploring the unique rural landscape of the Outer Hebrides, before moving recently to live in Edinburgh.
He says "I like to take time to look beyond the obvious and understand the depth of this landscape, to interpret its subtle moods and to see the interactions between its different aspects."
Whether Simon is painting mountains in Iceland, the peaty moorland of Lewis, the gentle hills of Cumbria and Northumberland, or the urban city environment, the graphic rhythms and components of these lands are captured in harmony with Simon's painterly skills using oil, pigment, watercolour, turpentine, wax and sand, bringing the composition of the land to life.