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According to McGee,

Elementals: Seascapes of the North #1

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According to McGee,

According to McGee, 8 Tower Street, York YO1 9SA

Phone: 01904 671709 Mobile: [email protected]@accordingtomcgee.com

Mon-Fri: 11am-5pmSaturday: 10am-5pmSunday: 1pm-4pm or by appointment only

Elementals: Seascapes of the North

Cover Picture

Freya Horsley

Approaching

Acrylic & oil on board 160x160cm

£480

Welcome to 'Elementals - Contemporary Interpretations of the North East: Seascape, Landscape, Light and Weather'. A wieldy title for a simple idea: to bring beautiful depictionsof what it is to experience the light of the NorthEast of Britain. Baumforth, Bilton, Horsley, and Oxley are all internationally Baumforth, Bilton, Horsley, and Oxley are all internationally well regarded artists, and are among the most exciting seascape painters in the UK. This portfolio provides a glimpse of what is at the time of writing a vindication thatour exhibition shows seascapes are as energetic, provocative as anything else in the contemporary scene. All paintings are available for purchase.All paintings are available for purchase.

Contemporary interpretations from the North East:Seascape, Landscape, Light and Weather.

David Baumforth / Freya Horsley / Mick Oxley / Micheal Bilton

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Liquid Light

Acrylic & oil on canvas

160 x 160cm

£3,500

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Freya Horsely

Ails McGee first curated the work of Freya Horsley at According to McGee to coincide with the gallery’s launch of the latest edition of international poetry magazine, ‘Dream Catcher’.

“It was a woman only exhibition,” says Ails, “And there wasn’t a butterfly in sight! Seriously though, it’s a strange limitation to puton women artists that they’re only allowed to be intuitive and instinctive. I have to say, there’s plenty of that in Freya’s work, instinctive. I have to say, there’s plenty of that in Freya’s work, but there’s also incisive mark making, witty mischief and as much of a celebration of the light in life as an understanding of the darkness.” Says Freya, “Led by my responses to landscape, light andweather and also by the process of painting itself, I makepaintings that refer to both the permanent elemental natureof land and a more ephemeral sense offluidity and change. In drawings made on the spot and in larger paintings in theIn drawings made on the spot and in larger paintings in thestudio, I try to capture the intangibility of the changes whichrain, mist, sunlight, cloud, snow bring to the face of the land.”

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Load

Mixed media on canvas

100 x 160cm

£2,000

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Glide

Mixed media on paper

48 x 88cm (framed size)

£720

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Festival

Mixed media on paper

48 x 82cm (frame size)

£680

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Surfacing

Acrylic & oil on canvas

100 x 160cm

£2,000

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Approaching

Acrylic & oil on board

160 x 160cm

£480

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One of the most celebrated seascape artists in the UK, Baumforth hasexhibited widely in both one-man and group shows, including the Royal Academy Summer Show, the Royal Watercolour Society Open and The Hunting Prizes at the Royal College of Art.

He now saves much of his energy for his practice, saying:"The YorkshireMoors and its coastline feed me with images "The YorkshireMoors and its coastline feed me with images for my pictures, which it has done for the past ten years. At the present time, I feel no need for change. I'm happy to return to According To McGee. It's a great gallery that has always showcased painting."

Greg suggests that the current show amounts to Baumforth reapplying for the job of the "Turner of the North"."These are nationally important Romantic paintings," he says."These are nationally important Romantic paintings," he says."David likes to let the work speak for itself, but in this age of the soundbite, it's good to see some heavyweight critics step in and support us."

Greg is referring to the stamp of approval that Baumforth received from the eminent art critic and nun Sister Wendy, who pronounced: "Anyone who has an eye for art, the deep passionate colour of Turner, the pure loving observations of passionate colour of Turner, the pure loving observations of Constable, must rejoice that our century has David Baumforth.Thiswork is the real thing, wet with sea spray we can feel, fresh with gusts of wind, always mysterious, always beautiful."

David Baumforth

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The Alpujarras rustic drive down from Polopos. Spring flowers in bloom

Mixed media on paper

26 x 32cm (framed size

£2,000

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Winter Dawn towards Spurn

Mixed media on paper

16.5 x 43cm(framed size)

£1,400

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Flotsam and Jetsam, Deserted Beach at Dawn. South of Scarborough

Mixed media on board

8.5 x 53cm (framed size)

£3,750£3,750

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Moorland Road to Whitby

Mixed media on paper

16.5 x 34cm (framed size)

£1,400

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Mick Oxley

Having first exhibited Oxley’s work 9 years ago, it is withsome excitement that the McGees have brought the internationally well regarded artist back to According to McGee.“I remember saying back in the day that you can feel the brine being flung from the surface of the canvas as the work hangson the wall in front of you,” says Greg, “We love his work,and have been looking forward to a good excuse to get his work have been looking forward to a good excuse to get his work back here’ ‘Seascapes’ is an ideal opportunity, and it’s great tosee it dovetail so well with other northern artists.”

Mick Oxley’s work consists of two main types. Firstly, watercolour and acrylicseascapes which are a response to thechanging weather, the scudding clouds and the roll of the sea. This work is influenced by, among others, Turner andLen Tabner.Len Tabner.

Secondly, the more textural works take their inspiration from the shoreline adjoining his home and the rock pools left stranded by the ebb tide. This has become a medium for experiment, Catching light and shade of the natural world in bold gesso textures, vibrant acrylic paints and fleeting jewel-like inks. “His work sometimes feels more like the North Sea than the North Sea. A little bit of like the North Sea than the North Sea. A little bit of Northumberland in York” jokes Ails, “Sounds good to me”.

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Elements: Bamburgh Castle

Mixed media on canvas

16 x 16cm

£450

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Exposed: Harbour to Castle

Mixed media canvas

40 x 40cm

£450

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A Brooding Sky

Watercolour

36 x 36cm

£550

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Elements: Causeway Dawn

Mixed media

20 x 60cm

£750 (sold)

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Sea Window: Sombre light

Acrylic on canvas

50 x 50cm

£550

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Elements: A New Day Breaks, Embleton Bay

Mixed media on canvas

51 x 76cm

£750

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Michael Bilton was born in Cambridge and spent most of his lifein Leicestershire where he was head of Foundation studies at Loughborough College of Art and Design. He was already an established abstract artist when he "found" Swaledale 20 years ago, and decided the landscape would be his subject for the rest of his life.

After taking early retirement, he moved with his partner Cindy, After taking early retirement, he moved with his partner Cindy, to Grinton near Reeth, immersedhimself in his surroundings and began painting the Dales.

He has twice been selected for the Royal Academy, wonmany awards and prizes;and exhibited in several galleriesthroughout the region (including York City Art Gallery).Whilst Bilton's paintings are not traditional landscapes, they are drawn from personal experiences and are anthey are drawn from personal experiences and are animpressionistic take on Swaledale, often on an impressivescale.

Micheal Bilton

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Beached

Mixed media on paper

£695

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Waterway

Mixed media on paper

£695

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Frozen Riverside

Mixed media on paper

£695

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Iced Beck

Mixed media on paper

£695

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Iced Watersedge

Mixed media on paper

£695

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According to McGee once again welcomes the luminous work of Dave Pearson, in collaboration with The Dave Pearson Trust. 'Transitions' is set to explore some of the small-scale work that Dave created in-between the periods when he was concentrating on his major themes.

“At stages throughout his career Dave Pearson arrived at a place where he was able to work with vigour and confidence on typically where he was able to work with vigour and confidence on typically large, wildly impressive and ambitious series of thematic works. In the 1960s it was an obsession with Vincent Van Gogh; in the 1970s on English Calendar Customs; from 1989 through to the late 1990s the epic series based on Yeats' poetry - ’Sailing to Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantium’ - and after that there were series inspired by Bestiaries,and his illness, as well as a number of other themes.

“These deeply impressive periods of work may appear to have “These deeply impressive periods of work may appear to have arrived fully-formed, as if out of nowhere, but in fact Dave also went through long periods where his work struggles and wrestles with ideas and textures, colours and concepts, that may eventually metamorphose into the clarity of the next series of work. Sometimes these explorations appear to reach a dead-end, a journey that runs its course and then simply fades away. For anyone really interested in Dave Pearson’s work these For anyone really interested in Dave Pearson’s work these periods of transition are fascinating and deserve study, for they can be truly revelatory.”

Dave Pearson's has received plaudits from Edward Lucie Smith inboth The Jackdaw magazine and BBC's 'The One Show', and is keenly regarded by collectors all over the world.'Dave Pearson was a really important artist', Edward Lucie Smith.

Next ExhibitionDave Pearson: ‘Transitions’

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