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Welcome to our five permanent on-line exhibitions of paintings that we hope will allow you to appreciate the depth and breadth of Prue Bishop's Sculptural Watercolours. 80 paintings are on display for your interest and consideration.
Each of these Sculptural Watercolours is reserved for physical display, say in your public museum, so that the public may appreciate the unique nature of these artworks. In view of this policy, none is available for sale.
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Global Warming Exhibition
Prue Bishop had to keep largely isolated during the pandemic of 2020/2021 which prevented her from straying far from home. She therefore produced for us a series of Sculptural Watercolour® paintings that draw attention to the greatest threat of all to our life on our planet: Global Warming - that if unchecked will bring on a catastrophic Climate Change.
Confined by the pandemic, she travelled virtually to Greenland, The Arctic and The Antarctic through researching the vast body of reports and photographic material written, supported and sponsored by such as The Scott Polar Research Institute and NASA.
Having lived in the Alpine region for over four decades, she is acutely aware of the starkly worrying changes that have occurred in her own lifetime that she has referred to in her paintings over the past two decades.
In 2022 she returned from re-visiting the famous Mer de Glace - above Chamonix in France - absolutely shocked to stand at the level where she had stood on the ice in 2001 and observe the absolutely vast valley below her that is now devoid of ice. "Although I've read about the problem, to experience it is something else. I'm beyond simply shocked. I'm devastated. Words fail me. I'll attempt to communicate through art"
With the pandemic becoming a distant memory, and even with so many military conflicts on our planet, we realise that Climate Changes pose ever-increasting threats to our very existence.
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Volcano Exhibition
The artist's study of eruptions from volcanos and the associated lava flows in 2007 resulted in some remarkable Sculptural Watercolour® paintings that above all included successful experimentation to arrive at the needed intensity of the colours. Just this point alone makes these works unique.
But added to this is the extraordinary handling of water, pigment and paper to arrive at effects previously unknown to watercolourists.
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Mediterranean Exhibition
The multitude of blues of the Mediterranean Sea and the special sandy colours of the shoreline captured in this series of impressions will be recognised and even felt by those familiar with this region.
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Chartreuse Exhibition
The Chartreuse is known for a particular shade of green. But on visiting this region one is struck by the extraordinary range of greens - which are captured in this group of paintings - conveying to us that special sense of 'place' that can only be achieved by the artist being on the ground in this special environment on multiple occasions.
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Alps Exhibition
This large exhibition of Sculptural Watercolour® landscapes of Alpine locations is the result of four decades of journeys through the Swiss Cantons, France (Savoy and Grenoble) Italy (Aosta and Piedmont) and beyond.
In the autumn / fall of 2021 and in Spring 2022 the artist was once again studying Alpine glaciers and landscapes. For instance, she is appalled to see that the famous Chamonix Mer de Glace is now largely stone-rubble rather than the wonderfully-impressive ice-field she once knew and walked on.
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Turner Research - NEW ARTICLE 2 MAY 2023 - DIRECT LINK
In the process of studying locations for her Sculptural Watercolour® paintings, Prue Bishop has recognised the subjects of many JMW Turner works for the first time. To this task too, she has brought her impressive thoroughness, studying at first hand around 2000 of his sketches and watercolours from the Turner Bequest that this foremost of European artists left to the public.
Her research papers bring an artist's insight into what is normally the preserve of the art historian. She and her several volunteer helpers have collected a vast body of information over the past decade, and the work of reviewing, distilling and writing continues.
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About the Artist
In this section we define Sculptural Watercolour® and mention some aspects of the artist's background and experiences. Certain technical points are also explained.
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Ceci est un site Web non-commercial basé au Royaume-Uni.
We do not track your visits. We do not place cookies. Should you contact us by e-mail (recommended) we will of course keep a record of your message and our reply in the normal way. Contact via social media is welcome. Please respect Copyright Law.
This is a non-commercial web site based in the United Kingdom. Prue Bishop's artwork and research are undertaken independently of any agency, gallery, public or private entity. Her views are entirely her own. We are especially grateful to those that have given permission to display paintings and reproduce published articles. Our research papers are provided free of charge and eventually granted full and free public access. John & Prue Bishop reside in France.
Please e-mail us should you wish to see a selection of Sculptural Watercolour® paintings. Indeed, they can only be fully appreciated by viewing the works themselves.
Almost 100 Sculptural Watercolors can be made available for physical exhibition, so please make direct contact to discuss.
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May 2nd, 2023