Neil Pinkett - Shifting Skies & Seas 31 May - 21 June 2014

Cover: St Michael’s Mount, High Water, oil on panel, 38 x 49cm

Muted Sunoil on panel 28 x 38cm

Neil Pinkett was born in St Just on the very tip of Cornwall. It is a dramatic place to live with a narrow peninsula being surrounded on three sides by the sea, causing constantly changing skies with squalls coming in off the ocean often followed by the sun suddenly breaking through. It is these fleeting light effects that have inspired this collection of paintings at Hilton Fine Art.

Pinkett works with a very limited palette which provides his beautiful trademark, highly orchestrated purpley / green / grey paintings. The works are painted up from sketches done on the spot, working on an impasto ground that has the complementary final colours on it. This gives the pictures vitality and gives Pinkett something to work against, incorporating the chance element. The pictures are attacked with great energy, mostly using the palette knife and with the atmosphere and feel of the light and movement of that particular time of day being as important as the descriptive elements of the scene.

Much emphasis is put on the abstraction in the figuration. Greys are repeated thoughout the pictures and Pinkett delights in the formal structure of the painting, for example, placing a colour on the major diagonal of the golden section of the composition.

Neil Pinkett - Shifting Skies & Seas 31 May - 21 June 2014

Late Lightoil on panel 60 x 76cm

Cape Cornwalloil on panel 70 x 90cm

Cloud on Sandoil on panel 38 x 49cm

High Winds, Heavy Swelloil on panel 60 x 90cm

Grey and Green Over Seaoil on panel 38 x 53cm

St Michael’s Mountoil on panel 44 x 56cm

Atlantic Swelloil on panel 90 x 120cm

Evening Sunoil on panel 46 x 56cm

Blue and Greyoil on panel 28 x 38cm

Fishing Hutsoil on panel 50 x 76cm

High Wavesoil on panel 37 x 55cm

The Mount, Dramatic Lightoil on panel 30 x 40cm

Atlantic Wavesoil on panel 29 x 38cm

Wave After Waveoil on panel 70 x 90cm

Atlantic Wavesoil on panel 29 x 38cm

Messy Seaoil on panel 28 x 38cm

St Michael’s Mount, Late Nightoil on panel 30 x 41cm

Crashing Waves, North Coastoil on panel 46 x 57cm

Off Shoreoil on panel 28 x 38cm

Grey and Greenoil on panel 28 x 38cm

Huge Wavesoil on panel 60 x 90cm

Pink and Greyoil on panel 28 x 40cm

Cove Swelloil on panel 40 x 56cm

Huge Wavesoil on panel 60 x 90cm

Crashing Wavesoil on panel 24 x 38cm

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Evening Cloudsoil on panel 60 x 76cm