Exhibitions

John Howard RE and Jason Lilley

Exhibition Date: 16 November - 03 December 2011

John Howard and Jason Lilley are united not just by their shared Cornish location but their joint enthusiasm for panoramas, the reflections and textures of our man made and natural world, the forms and surfaces of stone, tiles, glass, stains, marks, the play of filtered light and shadows through trees.

Where Lilley exceeds his drawn borders, painting beyond the drawn line, Howard is precise, masterly at achieving colour through white line engraving. His skilful layering of images and play of light suggest an affinity with Piranesi’s fictitious and atmospheric scenes of Rome, a fascination with form, theatricality, carved monuments and receding vistas. Howard’s flinty coloured engravings are exceptionally accomplished be it of rock studies at Falmouth or industrial sites from the Midlands. The woods and caves Howard etches have a narrative element and a dark emotional quality – the faintly claustrophobic atmosphere of an impending thunderstorm, but with a glimpse through, like the calm following the storm.