Rupert White

Rupert remembers visiting St Ives regularly as a child and teenager living in Cornwall. His appreciation of art is linked closely to this experience and to his abiding affection for the work of artists like Peter Lanyon and John Wells, the latter of whom he met and befriended in the early 90s.

Like Wells, Rupert trained as a doctor at UCH in London. Later he attended Chelsea Art College, but found he really needed to be in Cornwall to make the art he wanted to make.

Rupert is interested in landscape painting and Land Art and has explored the interface between them in a number of ways: most literally by painting on the landscape itself in a number of cases.

He believes that art can teach us not only to appreciate the natural world, but also to show humility towards it, and with this in mind he has allowed animals, plants and natural forces to assist, and even direct, the formation of his artworks*.

His fondness for St Ives painting is still apparent in his work which is still, predominantly, abstract.

(*This page includes 4 examples: from the top: 'Collaboration (gull)', 'Drawing completed by the shadow of a blade of grass', 'Painting made by a freshwater stream', and 'Still (Newlyn)'.)

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