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Rainyday Gallery is holding an exhibition by painter, Matthew Lanyon
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Born in
St Ives in 1951, Matthew Lanyon is the son of Peter Lanyon - a landscape
painter who became a major figure in the world of art.
His father - a great inspiration - died at the age of 46 from a gliding
accident. Having been surrounded by the arts from a young age, Matthew
considered going to art schol but was deterred by his mother.
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He thus
decided upon four years at university starting with Geology and Psychology
and it would be twenty-five years before Matthew got the smell of
paint again.
After four years in academia Matthew then got a job on a tractor -
working in the building trade, becoming physical. He also trained
as a carpenter and joiner.
It was not until 1988 that he began to take his artwork seriously.
At that
time he was drawing and painting every morning with his son, in the
days before he went to school.
This exhibition of 46 paintings uncovers Matthew's work..
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He describes
his working with landscape and mythology. "Two figures - male
and female, land and sea; It's a way to explore something, coming
again to places I experienced as a child, moving between the symbolic,
the Imaginary and the Real."
He explains the painting Valley of the Kings being about a stretch
of high country where chieftans and kings were buried in megalithic
times. "It's a great theme - almost astrological in scale - holding
excitement for all of us. You can look through five thousand years
of history standing on a hill in one landscape. And it's still there."
"The old experiences and the new - they all boil down inside.
What I see now is seen with emotion. It's a song, like a blackbird
every morning, barely physical - almost invisible to the ears."
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THE
RAINYDAY GALLERY, Penzance
MATTHEW LANYON
'Forty Six Paintings'
September 6 - October 3
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