Philip Muñoz: Of Land, Sea and Sky
Pontone Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new landscape paintings by Philip Muñoz. His subject is the English West Country, particularly Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. He concentrates on coastal scenes where the three elements of land, sea and sky come together. These skilful studies of topography and climate are each small essays evoking a specific time and place.
The artist maps and defines the specific characteristics of each picturesque location. This group of pictures can be read sequentially and appears to describe a peripatetic journey into the West. Each composition is a named place and carries echoes of the tours undertaken by nineteenth century artists such as Cotman and Turner as they assembled their compendiums of British landscape. The essential difference between then and now is that Muñoz's travels reveals a landscape devoted as much to leisure and tourism as to agriculture and industry.
These images are emphatically calm and contemplative. The painter revels in the joy of his quiet appraisal and takes pleasure in a virtuoso application of oil paint. He invites us to take the tour.
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Avon Estuary, Bantham, 2024Oil on marine plywood60 x 60 cm
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Thurlestone Rock from South Milton Sands, 2024Oil on marine plywood60 x 60 cm
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South Sands, Salcombe, 2024Oil on marine plywood50 x 50 cm
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Thurlestone Beach, 2024Oil on marine plywood60 x 60 cm
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Salcombe Harbour from East Portlemouth Beach, 2024Oil on marine plywood50 x 50 cm
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Burgh Island from Coastal Path, 2024Oil on marine plywood78 x 61 cm
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Mothecombe Beach, 2024Oil on marine plywood61 x 61 cm
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Philip Muñoz, Hope Cove, 2024
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Readymoney Cove, Fowey, 2024Oil on marine plywood60 x 60 cm
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Bantham Beach from Coastal Path, 2024Oil on marine plywood50 x 50 cm
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Salcombe Harbour, 2022Oil on marine plywood50 x 50 cm
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Symonds Yat, Autumn Colours, 2022Oil on marine plywood50 x 50 cm
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Symonds Yat, Lower Viewpoint, 2022Oil on marine plywood46 x 46 cm
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