Mark Edwards 2014 Exhibition

MARK EDWARDS

Front Cover: The Green Balloon 80 X 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas

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CATTO GALLERY100 Heath Street • Hampstead • London NW3 1DP

Tel: +44 (0)20 7435 6660 • [email protected]

October 2014Solo Exhibition

Mark Edwards

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Mark Edwards invites you back to The White Wood as he returns to The Catto Gallery with his exhibitionshowcasing the latest phase of his popular series.

For some of us this marks a return to The White Wood (Catto Gallery 2012), for Mark Edwards it is a place hehas spent the last seven years exploring.

In this series the bold compositions, posed figures and recurring set of motifs of black crows, steam trains, emptybuildings are at once enigmatic, ambiguous and even darkly comic.

The snow gets deeper.

The bowler-hatted gentlemen continue to ambiguously inhabit their strange environment. Now, in contrast toearlier works, they often stand in groups, not always alone.

Who are they? How did they get there? What is their business there?

The canvases too have developed as Mark grows key pieces such as “Man Climbing A Tree” and “Walking Past”into diptychs and triptychs for the first time. The groups of canvas now physically echoing the groups of gentlementhat feature so prominently in the exhibition.

Following four sell-out exhibitions the series continues to draw admirers across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia andNorth America. Edwards’ continued popularity stems from his ability to create contemplative studies of charactersand repeat motifs, captured within the hauntingly mesmeric landscape of The White Wood. His paintings have atimeless quality, transcending us out of real life and place Edwards in a very British form of surrealism.

The story continues.


WALKING PAST (TRIPTYCH)60 X 150 cm Acrylic on Canvas

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THE HEDGE50 X 60 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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THROUGH THE HEDGE81 X 130 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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THREE MEN STANDING VERY STILL80 X 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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LOOKING FOR CROWS65 X 81 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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WAITING FOR THE TRAIN TO PASS100 X 210 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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UNDER THE FLAG (TRIPTYCH)50 X 60 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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THE FLAG100 X 140 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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WATCHING THE GAP (DIPTYCH)2 X 40 X 30 cm Acrylic on Canvas


THE TWO BROTHERS80 X 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas

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THE BONFIRE (TRIPTYCH)100 X 180 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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THE GREEN TRAIN80 X 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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THE SURPRISE65 X 81 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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THE MEETING PLACE30 X 40 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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MAN CLIMBING A TREE (DIPTYCH)50 X 120 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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LOOKING FOR THE COATS65 X 80 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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STOPPING TO WATCH70 X 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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WATCHING THE WOOD (DIPTYCH)2 X 40 X 30 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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MAN TURNING (GROUP)5 X 30 X 30 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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SITTING IN THE GARDEN65 X 81 cm Acrylic on Canvas


THE GREEN DOOR80 X 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas

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BIRD SONG54 X 73 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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HEARING MUSIC50 X 60 cm Acrylic on Canvas


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WATCHING THE MOVING PATH50 X 60 cm Acrylic on Canvas


Back Cover: The Watcher 54 X 73 cm Acrylic on Canvas

CATTO GALLERY100 Heath Street • Hampstead • London NW3 1DP

Tel: +44 (0)20 7435 6660 • www.cattogallery.co.uk • [email protected]

Opening times: 10am - 6pm Mon - Sat • 12.30pm - 6pm Sunday • and by appointment

EXHIBITION DATES: 2nd - 21st October 2014

Mark Edwards 2014 Exhibition

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