Nicholas Turner

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front cover:

Lighthouse at Mullion Cove Oil on board, 14 × 15 ins / 35.6 × 38.1 cm

£1,800

back cover:

Grey Vase Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

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Jonathan CooperPark Walk Gallery

20 Park Walk London SW10 0AQt: +44 (0)20 7351 0410

mail@jonathancooper.co.ukjonathancooper.co.uk

Nicholas TurnerL IGHTHOUSE

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Nicholas Turner RWA

Born in 1972, in London, Nicholas Turner

lives and works in Somerset. After a

Foundation Course in Art and Design in

Bristol, Nicholas achieved a BA (Hons) in

Fine Art from UWE Bristol and in 2003

was elected an Academician of the Royal

West of England Academy, serving on its

governing council. He has exhibited widely

and his work is held in public collections

including the Royal Collection, the RWA

Permanent Collection, the Talboys Bequest

RWA, and numerous private collections

across the UK, Japan, USA, Italy and

Israel.

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Nicholas Turner PaintingsAN INTRODUCTION

Nicholas Turner paints trees, skies, sea, harbour walls, boats, solitary

figures and simple objects on a table or chair, oh and the occasional

factory chimney. These are the subjects of the work in this exhibition and

the viewer may wonder whether it is the subject matter that obsesses him

or whether that is a pretext for another obsession. With Nicholas the true

subtext is his passion for painting as an end in itself and the attempt to

make paintings which are lyrical and wistful without sentimentality and

which convey a deep sense of calm and stillness.

How does he achieve this? Firstly, looking at his aesthetic instinct, his

subject matter has a quality of timelessness. Where he might have painted

the present day for example in his harbour or town scenes, he has chosen

to turn the clock back slightly thus giving the impression that his paintings

inhabit an age somewhere in the early 20th century when life seemed

less frenetic. Secondly, apart from the odd scudding cloud his subjects

are still and without hint of movement. Everything appears to have been

where it now is forever. Sail boats, often little more than white triangles,

or in the work titled ‘The Jump’ resembling the paper boats children

make, do not move. The man diving off the harbour wall in that same

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Industrial Town with Figure Oil on canvas, 30 × 30 ins / 76.2 × 76.2 cm

£3,800

painting is also frozen mid air for all time. Painting from memory and

imagination allows Nicholas to place objects exactly where he wants

them. His sense of composition doubtless honed from close familiarity

with and respect for artists of the past, is totally assured. By abstracting

and simplifying his shapes he makes the most resonant statements in the

most economical way.

Nicholas has also mastered a painting technique which gives him the best

opportunity of realising his purpose. Preparatory drawing is absent. There

is no need for it as it would inhibit his freedom to create his imagery within

the very act of painting. His chosen oil colours are pared to a minimum –

yellow ochre, Indian red, cobalt blue, black and white, supplemented only

where needed with cerulean and cadmium. With these limited colours and

painting on a mid toned absorbent surface he is able intuitively to achieve

the colour balance, control of tone and the harmony he seeks. Rather than

concentrate on any one area of the picture his brush roams back and forth

over the whole surface, one mark informing the next. Brush marks, dabbed

and scrubbed rather than drawn out, are both delicate and firm at the

same time, the broken surface often left looking under painted, an effect

which is reminiscent of Vuillard and the small studies of Seurat.

Simon Quadrat PPRWA

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Yellow Flower Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

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Cornish Landscape with FlowersOil on linen, 14 × 18.5 ins / 35.6 × 47 cm

£2,000

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Six Eggs in a Basket Oil on board, 14 × 18 ins / 35.6 × 45.7 cm

£2,000

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Table with Red Bowl Oil on board, 14 × 18 ins / 35.6 × 45.7 cm

£2,000

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Man with Flowers Oil on canvas, 30 × 30 ins / 76.2 × 76.2 cm

£3,800

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Table with Shells Oil on linen, 20 × 24 ins / 50.8 × 61 cm

£2,800

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Cornish Table Oil on linen, 24 × 30 ins / 61 × 76.2 cm

£3,400

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Table with Pier Oil on canvas, 36 × 36 ins / 91.4 × 91.4 cm

£4,800

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Pansies Oil on board, 10 × 10 ins / 25.4 × 25.4 cm

£1,200

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White Bowl Oil on board, 14 × 18 ins / 35.6 × 45.7 cm

£2,000

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White Vase Oil on linen, 14 × 18 ins / 35.6 × 45.7 cm

£2,000

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Table with Shells and Carnations Oil on board, 14 × 18.5 ins / 35.6 × 47 cm

£2,000

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Six PearsOil on canvas, 30 × 30 ins / 76.2 × 76.2 cm

£3,800

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White Boat at Mullion Cove Oil on board, 8 × 10 ins / 20.3 × 25.4 cm

£1,100

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White Sail Oil on board, 10 × 12 ins / 25.4 × 30.5 cm

£1,400

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Autumn Harvest Oil on board, 10 × 12 ins / 25.4 × 30.5 cm

£1,400

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Figure and Field Oil on linen, 20 × 24 ins / 50.8 × 61 cm

£2,800

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Red Pear Oil on canvas, 36 × 36 ins / 91.4 × 91.4 cm

£4,800

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White Boat and Sail Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

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The Jump Oil on canvas, 20 × 24 ins / 50.8 × 61 cm

£2,800

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South Pier Newlyn Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

South Pier and Rooftops Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

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South Pier III, Newlyn Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

Interior with Table and Flowers Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

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Pier at Newlyn, CornwallOil on board, 10 x 12 ins / 25.4 x 30.5 cm

£1,400

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Two Vases Oil on board, 10 x 12 ins / 25.4 x 30.5 cm

£1,400

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Cups and Pears Oil on board, 30 × 32 ins / 76.2 × 81.3 cm

£4,000

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Headland with Two Vases Oil on linen, 14 × 18 ins / 35.6 × 45.7 cm

£2,000

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Cottages with Table Oil on board, 30 × 32 ins / 76.2 × 81.3 cm

£4,000

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Figure at Dusk Oil on board, 10 × 13 ins / 25.4 × 33 cm

£1,450

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Orchard at Dusk Oil on linen, 31.5 × 39.5 ins / 80 × 100.3 cm

£4,500

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Fishermen Oil on canvas, 30 × 30 ins / 76.2 × 76.2 cm

£3,800

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PZ153 Oil on board, 10 × 12 ins / 25.4 × 30.5 cm

£1,400

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Lighthouse and Boats Oil on board, 10 × 12 ins / 25.4 × 30.5 cm

£1,400

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Black Cup Oil on board, 14 × 18.5 ins / 35.6 × 47 cm

£2,000

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Grey Table Oil on board, 14 × 18.5 ins / 35.6 × 47 cm

£2,000

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Black Boat Mullion Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

Boat and White House Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

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Red Lighthouse Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

Red Boat Oil on board, 6 × 8 ins / 15.2 × 20.3 cm

£850

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Green Eggs Oil on board, 15 × 15 ins / 38.1 × 38.1 cm

£1,900

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Eggs Oil on canvas, 23.6 × 23.6 ins / 60 × 60 cm

£3,600

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Chair with Flowers Oil on canvas, 36 × 36 ins / 91.4 × 91.4 cm

£4,800

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Blue Sail Oil on board, 8 × 10 ins / 20.3 × 25.4 cm

£1,100

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Jonathan CooperPark Walk Gallery

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