50 YEARS OF ISLAND LIFE
LOCAL ARTIST EXHIBITS WORKS INSPIRED BY 50 YEARS OF ISLAND LIFE
Local artist Peter Carnegie is exhibiting a selection artwork from a 50-year career spent chronicling Jersey’s seascapes and landscapes on canvas. The exhibition, which will take place at the White Space Gallery, Jersey Potteries between 18th - 31st October, is a tribute to Jersey’s coastal scenery from the perspective of a yachtsman as well as an artist.
Mr Carnegie, who trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford and Brighton College of Art, is exhibiting for the first time in 16 years. As well as chronicling Jersey’s coast and maritime history, his current exhibition will include paintings inspired by voyages around the coast of Brittany and the Mediterranean, and is a combination of more recent works with those from an earlier period.
Mr. Carnegie said “All my work is linked by a common commitment to the objective study of nature. Stylistically, my painting has changed over the decades but the inspiration remains the same – the sea and its tides, the beauty of the natural landscape and the changing weather and seasons.”
Jersey art critic John Falle said “Peter Carnegie is a yachtmaster whose seamanlike eye coordinates to produce most enchanting rhythmical marine pictures. Sailors spend much of their time in community with nature and Peter’s ability to articulate nuances of the light is of interest to us all.”
The exhibition will run between 9.30 and 5.30 pm daily from Tuesday 19th to Monday 31st of October at the White Space Gallery, Jersey Potteries. Sunday openings are from 10am – 4pm.
