When the story of Cornish art in the early 21st Century is written, Amanda Hoskin is likely to feature as an artist whose work epitomises a distinctive phase in the landscape painting tradition. Cornwall – particularly the rugged landscape of West Cornwall – ignites a powerful response and Amanda’s emotive canvases convey this masterfully.
The coast path is the key frontier for Amanda; the meeting place of rock and water, sea and sky, stillness and movement, permanence and ephemerality. Several years ago, she walked the entire Cornish coast path, a journey which had a profound effect on the development of her mature style.
For this solo show at Lighthouse Gallery in Penzance, she returned to a specific stretch – the 45 miles between St Ives and Marazion. Here the coastline is at its most dramatic, rugged and monumental; weaving in and out of wave-pounded coves, along windswept clifftops, across pristine beaches and through tiny sheltered harbours, the journey takes in some of the most spectacular and breath-taking views Cornwall has to offer.
This story is from the April 2020 edition of Cornwall Life.
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