River to Sea catalogue

River to Sea An exhibition of new paintings by Nick Bodimeade at Zimmer Stewart Gallery 2 to 23 November 2019 The swimmer enters the water and merges with the landscape. Figure and ground become one. River to Sea These paintings are all based on photographs taken or directed by me. Photographs that enable the fleeting to be scrutinised. Wild swimmers, sea and sun bathers - their bodies embedded in the surrounding landscape providing an opportunity to exploit the fluid, immersive, qualities of paint where a figure can dissolve into tone, colour and gesture and merge camouflage like with its surroundings. This combined with my interest in the relationship between photographic realism and process based abstraction, give the paintings a sense of flipping back and forth between the visually and physically experienced. Representation slides into abstraction, and bodies dissolve into landscape. This becoming one with the surrounding landscape or what painters refer to as the Figure /Ground relationship perhaps partially explains the need we seem to have to expose ourselves to the elements. I guess we all have our own theories as to what is going on here, but I feel our current contested relationship with nature gives a fresh perspective on this timeless subject. Nick Bodimeade, 2019 indicates sold paintings River Pool I framed oil on board 18 x 23 cm Willow Shade framed oil on board 23 x 18 cm Mill Pool framed oil on board 23 x 25 cm Pool II framed oil on board 18 x 23 cm Beach Matrix IV oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm Sea Blue Shorts oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm Blue Stripe Matrix oil on canvas 110 x 120 cm Blue Dress Matrix oil on canvas 105 x 120 cm Leaving oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm Diagonal oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm Looking Leaving oil on canvas 76 x 86 cm Beach Edit I oil on canvas 71 x 76 cm Beach Edit II oil on canvas 76 x 86 cm Beach Matrix I oil on canvas 60 x 66 cm Hive oil on canvas 105 x 120 cm Flotsam oil on canvas 105 x 120 cm Noon oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm T and J I framed oil on canvas 18 x 23 cm T and J II framed oil on canvas 19 x 22.5 cm O and J framed oil on canvas 18 x 23 cm T framed oil on canvas 18 x 23 cm J and B framed oil on canvas 17.5 x 22 cm J and B (siblings) framed oil on canvas 23 x 26 cm J framed oil on canvas 23 x 18 cm L framed oil on canvas 18 x 23 cm Channel framed oil on canvas 23 x 18.5 cm Seaford framed oil on canvas 22 x 19 cm Channel II framed oil on canvas 14 x 18 cm Siblings Naxos framed oil on canvas 18.5 x 23 cm www.zimmerstewart.co.uk Nick Bodimeade Nick Bodimeade is a landscape painter and printmaker, whose painting is informed by his years working as an abstract artist and as an art school lecturer in Fine Art. He lives and has his studio on an island where the river Ouse cuts through the South Downs north of Lewes. With a background in farming and small holding and a passion for mountain biking and hill walking, his interest in landscape is as physical and practical as it is visual. Recent subjects have included motorways, vapour trails, beaches, B roads, rural tracks and the formal gardens of Glyndebourne and Rousham. A long standing member of the Zimmer Stewart Gallery stable he has also had recent solo shows at St Annes Gallery, Lewes, Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, and the Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden. Zimmer Stewart Gallery based in Arundel was established in 2003. They exhibit contemporary paintings, original prints, ceramics, textiles and sculpture. 29 Tarrant Street Arundel West Sussex BN18 9DG 01903 882063 info@zimmerstewart.co.uk www.zimmerstewart.co.uk @zimmerstewart