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Drawn to Colour Drawn to Colour Prints & Drawings by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004 We are delighted to be sponsoring the Wilhelmina Barns- Graham exhibition at The Jointure Studios. The exhibition is possible in large part because of the work undertaken by the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust to which Wilhelmina Barns-Graham bequeathed her entire estate on her death in January 2004. Through their good work, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s legacy endures, to be enjoyed by this and many future generations. In a world that sometimes appears to increasingly encompassing a culture of everything being disposable, except perhaps one’s blog ramblings destined to circulate the internet ether for eternity, my firm exists to provide security and legacy for individuals throughout the South East. During the last 119 years we have looked after families through many generations, whether it be dealing with inheritances and tax, family difficulties or the purchase and disposal of assets, the constant theme has been putting clients first and providing timely and effective legal advice with excellent client service. We very much hope you enjoy the show and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s legacy of her inspirational work. Please talk to me or one my colleagues if you would like to know more about how we can help you secure your family legacy. David Edwards Managing Partner Burt Brill & Cardens solicitors Brighton, East Grinstead & Worthing 01273 604123 www.bbc-law.co.uk Drawn to Colour Prints & Drawings by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004 The Jointure Studios, Ditchling 3rd-20th October 2012 Open Wednesday-Saturday 11am-5pm or by appointment. Shirley Crowther Art at The Jointure Studios, 11 South Street, Ditchling, Sussex BN6 8UQ 01273 841244 [email protected] www.shirleycrowtherart.com Portrait of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 2000, sitting in front of her 1999 screen print Another Time Photograph: Simon Norfolk Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE HRSA HRSW Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, known as Willie, was born in St Andrews, Fife, on 8 June 1912. Determining while at school that she wanted to be an artist she set her sights on Edinburgh College of Art where she enrolled in 1931 and graduated with her diploma in 1937. At the suggestion of the College’s principal Hubert Wellington, she moved to St Ives in 1940. Early on she met Borlase Smart, Alfred Wallis and Bernard Leach, as well as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo who were living locally at Carbis Bay. She became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and St Ives Society of Artists but was to leave the latter in 1949 when she became one of the founding members of the breakaway Penwith Society of Artists. She was an early exhibitor of the significant Crypt Group. Her peers in St Ives include atrickP Heron, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton and John Wells, among others. Barns-Graham’s history is bound up with St Ives where she lived throughout her life, and it is the place where she experienced her first great successes as an artist. Following her travels to the Grindelwald Glacier, Switzerland in 1949 she embarked on a series of paintings and drawings which caught the attention of some of the most significant critics and curators of the day. In 1951 she won the Painting Prize in the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall Festival of Britain Exhibition and went on to have her first London solo exhibition at the edfernR Gallery in 1952. She was included in many of the important exhibitions on pioneering British abstract art that took place in the 1950s. In 1960 Barns-Graham inherited a family home near St Andrews which initiated a new phase in her life. From this moment she divided her time between the two coastal communities, simultaneously establishing herself as much as a Scottish artist as a St Ives one. Balmungo House was to become the heart of her professional life, as it continues to be as the centre for the charitable trust which she established in 1987. Barns-Graham exhibited consistently throughout her career, in private and public galleries. Though not short of exposure throughout the 1960s and 1970s, her next greatest successes did not come until the 1990s. Important exhibitions of her work at the Tate St Ives in 1999/2000 and 2005 and the publication of the first monograph on her life and work, Lynne Green’s ‘W. Barns-Graham: a studio life’, 2001 (2nd edition 2011), did much to change critical and public perceptions of her achievements and confirmed her as one of the key contributors of the St Ives School, and as a significant British modernist. She was made a CBE in 2001, and received four honorary doctorates (St Andrews 1992, Plymouth 2000, Exeter 2001 and Heriot Watt Universities 2003). Her work is found in all major public collections within the UK. She died in St Andrews on 26 January 2004. 6 Lines 2001 Etching on paper 37.7 x 57.6cm Edition of 70 “… she proved herself a draughtsman of visionary gift, capable of tracing, in precise linearity and expressive tone and colour, the dynamism and rhythm of things.” Mel Gooding from A Discipline of the Mind. The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney March 2009 and tour 8 Lines II 2001 Etching on paper 57.5 x 76cm Edition of 70 For Barns-Graham drawing was a “discipline of the mind” and this series, begun in the 1970s, encapsulates her fascination with the energy and linear rhythms of sea and weather, transforming their description into meditative abstractions. Untitled 1983 Dialogue between Wind and Sand (1) 1982 Mixed media on card Pen ink and oil on card 20 x 27cm 16 x 21.2cm Snow Blown Carbeth Stirlingshire 1978 Mixed media on card 29.5 x 21cm Shell (detail) 1979 Mixed media on card 18.7 x 20.1cm Orange Sky 2 1980 Untitled 1991 Mixed media on card Pen ink and oil on card 13 x 16.3cm 17.8 x 22.7cm Wind Music no.2 1980 Sea Sound no.2 1980 Mixed media on board Mixed media on hardboard 26.4 x 39.3cm 27 x 39.9cm Shoal 1979 Mixed media on card 20 x 27cm During the last few years of her life (1998-2004) Wilhelmina Barns-Graham produced some of the most vibrant and colour sensitive work of her long career, forging a close working relationship with Carol Robertson of Graal Press to create an astounding 44 editioned silkscreen prints and a further 17 proofs to be posthumously printed. Graal’s introduction of new processes and materials, together with the technique of working on clear sheets which could be used in numerous combinations, allowed Barns-Graham untiringly to continue to explore themes and new ideas. Another Time 1999 Quick Time 1999/2005 Just in Time (detail) 1999 Screen print on paper Screen print on paper Screen print on paper 58 x 76cm 76 x 58cm 58 x 76cm Edition of 75 Edition of 25 Edition of 75 Vision in Time II 2001 Screen print on paper 76 x 58cm Edition of 70 Quiet Time 1999 Walkabout Time 1999 Screen print on paper Screen print on paper 57 x 77cm 58 x 76cm Edition of 50 Edition of 50 Tango 2003 Screen print on paper 58 x 58cm Edition of 70 Millennium Blue 2000 Millennium Blue II 2000 Screen print on paper Screen print on paper 24 x 30.5cm 24 x 30.5cm Edition of 75 Edition of 75 Millennium Red 2000 Millennium Pink 2000 Screen print on paper Screen print on paper 24 x 30.5cm 24 x 30.5cm Edition of 75 Edition of 75 Millennium Brown 2000 Millennium Green 2000 Screen print on paper Screen print on paper 24 x 30.5cm 24 x 30.5cm Edition of 75 Edition of 75 White Circle Series III 2003 Screen print on paper 56 x 76cm Edition of 70 White Circle Series I 2003 Screen print on paper 56 x 56cm Edition of 70 Orange and Lemon Playing Games 1999 Screen print on paper 29.3 x 40cm Edition of 75 “It's very important what you say and do when you are old”, she [Wilhelmina Barns-Graham] says to me, before reading out her artistic credo: “Now I am at the stage of urgency. My theme is celebration of life, joy, the importance of colour, form, space and texture. Brushstrokes that can be happy, risky, thin, fat, fluid and textured. Having a positive mind and constantly being aware and hopefully being allowed to live longer to increase this celebration.” Extract from Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in conversation with John McEwen, published in the Daily Telegraph, March 25, 2001, on the occasion of her receiving her CBE. Water Dance (Porthmeor) I 2003 Red Playing Games III 2000 Screen print on paper Screen print on paper 56 x 56cm 29.5 x 40cm Edition of 70 Edition of 75 Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE HRSA HRSW Selected Biography Selected Solo Exhibitions 1912 Born 8 June, St Andrews, Fife 1947/49/54 Downing Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall 1924 Family moved to Stirlingshire 1949/52 Redfern Gallery, London 1930 Visited Paris and Rouen 1951 St Ives Festival 1932 Edinburgh College of Art, Diploma course 1954 Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London (Painting) DAE 1956/59/60/81 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 1934-37 Continued at Edinburgh College of Art 1971 Marjorie Parr Gallery, London 1940 Went to Cornwall with award as recommended 1976 Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives by Hubert Wellington 1978 The New Art Centre, London 1942 Became member of Newlyn Society of Artists 1984 The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney and St Ives Society of Artists 1987 Gillian Jason Gallery, London 1946 First meetings of Crypt Group in her studio 1989-90 W.
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