Peter Lanyon: Cornwall Inside Out

Peter Lanyon Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert

‘Peter Lanyon: Cornwall Inside Out’ opens on the exact centenary of the painter’s birth and marks the publication of the first catalogue raisonné of his work. This exhibition brings together a group of Lanyon’s Cornish paintings from major private and public collections. Highlights include pictures from the David Bowie collection, from the collections of the Arts Council of England and the British Council, including Bojewyan Farms, and other important works.  This centenary exhibition is curated by art historian Toby Treves, a leading expert on Lanyon and coincides with the publication of his catalogue raisonné on the artist (Modern Art Press).

Treves has concentrated on Lanyon’s Cornish landscape paintings in this exhibition because these works form a central part of the artist’s oeuvre. They have not been the subject of an exhibition in London for many decades – indeed some have never been exhibited in the United Kingdom.

In the Cornish paintings, Lanyon immerses himself emotionally and physically in his native landscape of Penwith, the westernmost part of Cornwall. With his desire to feel a stronger sense of place, he walked, rode, and drove over the windswept moors of Penwith. He skin-dived in the sea and went down the tin mines. And finally, he flew over it in his glider and discovered not only a new perspective on the land but a whole new realm of the physical world: the inside of the sky.

Duration 08 February 2018 - 16 March 2018
Times Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
Cost Free
Venue Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Address 38 Bury Street, London, SW1 6BB
Contact 4402078397600 / info@hh-h.com / www.hh-h.com

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