Cultivated Wildness Exhibition

Featuring the work of Amanda Richardson & Sara Bevan

Amanda’s own garden, like Trebah, is set in a deep, wooded Cornish valley and both gardens inform her art. The relationship of landscape and plants is the subject for this exhibition in which hydrangeas reflect in water and flowering trees spread their branches above meadows full of spring flowers.

For Sara, trees provide a recurring subject, tracing their transformation from bare winter branches to the softening canopy of spring. Through textile collage, painting and printmaking, both artists explore the space between cultivated and wild, and the changing experience of place.

About the artists

Amanda Richardson is an internationally acclaimed artist working in textile collage. Her hand dyed, many layered artworks allow the viewer to feel they can enter into a world of ever-changing light and shadow. Amanda’s art focuses on the gardens and landscapes of Cornwall including her own wild garden in the far west of the county.

Sara Bevan is a contemporary landscape artist. Working across mixed media, oils and printmaking, Sara draws inspiration from the landscapes of West Cornwall. Through colour, texture and expressive mark-making, she explores the relationship between landscape, memory and experience, creating atmospheric work that captures the character and spirit of the far west.