Jeremy Duncan
6 - 16 August
(Closed Monday 11th)
Open daily 10am - 5pm

The American artist, Rockwell Kent, said ‘we live for those passing moments of beauty’. I find these in old buildings. Façades provide a framework of bold horizontals and verticals counterbalanced by the diagonals of cast shadows. This geometry is enriched by the texture of building materials such as stone, brick, plaster or wood, and is enhanced by the colours of doors, windows, shutters and shop fronts.

I have found inspiration all over the world, especially in New York, London, Paris, Venice and Rome, but my immediate environment also provides endless subject matter, a familiar building, for example, entirely changing character as light falls on it in the morning or evening.

The battle to harmonise such different elements is constantly challenging an rewarding. I aim for a sort of abstract realism, seeking a pleasing composition which the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, liked to call ‘a dynamic equilibrium’.