Link Gallery Exhibitions

4 to 26 February

‘The Exuberance of Nature’ is a new exhibition in the Link Gallery at Jersey Museum featuring painting and etchings by local artist Tim Le Breuilly, who is co-founder of the Luddite Press, an independent community printmaking workshop at Grève de Lecq Barracks.

Tim draws upon the writings of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) to explain the nature of his own engagement with the natural world:

“To know fully even one field or land is a lifetime’s experience. In the world of poetic experience, it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields – these are as much as a man can fully experience.”

Tim adds that, ‘one can find the patterns of nature overwhelming as an artist; how does one interpret and represent the constantly shifting ebb and flow of light, colour and ephemeral mist?  These paintings and prints reflect direct personal observation of nature whether through study, dog walking, memory or gardening.’