Truro School venue for art exhibition (From This is The West Country)

Truro School venue for art exhibition

10:50am Saturday 21st February 2009

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Truro School is the venue for a prestigious art exhibition that reveals the many different aspects of Porthmeor Beach in St Ives.

More than 100 paintings by celebrated artist Michael Strang have been selected from more than 400 studies that were originally created for a special project at Tate St Ives.

Commissioned by the Tate’s curator Mike Tooby to show Porthmeor’s many changing moods in a series of paintings that would be changed monthly as part of the gallery’s Century of Images exhibition, Michael Strang spent a year capturing the area’s unique natural beauty with his brush.

“During my forty years’ experience as an artist, my work has always alternated between the passionate study painted at white heat from life and the more considered studio painting. Obviously the Tate programme was to be centred on the former approach.”

The paintings on display in and around Truro School’s reception area are a mixture of brightly coloured beach scenes, sunsets, sun rises and darker, stormier moments.

The exhibition has been put together by the school’s Curator of Paintings David Heseltine.

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