About



I make work about landscape. 

I am particularly interested in the often hidden references to it, created by my subconscious.

Sometimes I paint for no other reason than for the act of painting itself, throwing colour around is so much fun. But nearly always the landscape I know and love comes through in one way or another.

‘When I see my work I don’t see an abstract, only a landscape.’

Sunlight and shadows!

BEN Nicholson, Peter Lanyon and David Bomberg, to mention a few, all drew inspiration from the Cornish landscape in their painting.

Now one of the younger generation, Saul Cathcart, is following their examples by adding his own vision. Developing his personal pictorial language to represent his experience of it in exhibitions for us. He is changing our own seeing and thinking about it.

To enter a Saul Cathcart painting is to be immersed in a spacious world of flowing forms of colour and movement. Although they are beneficiaries to the history of Modernism they also have echoes of Eastern art traditions, especially Chinese brush painting.

They represent an extension of the tradition of the Cornish landscape enquiry using a mixture of innocence and knowledge. They embody a serious playfulness that is refreshing for the eye as well as challenging to the intellect.

Created out of the landscape ‘plein air’ at all times of the year, often from high vantage points, they have a lyrical poetry being free of the ‘existential’ struggle which inhabited so much ‘post war’ attempts at earlier modernist landscape painting.

Saul manages to balance both depth and two dimensional flatness within the image. The horizon is not allowed to dominate and chop up the compositional space.

One senses the movement of forms, shadows and light of the kinetic event that he is witnessing unfold before him.

To capture this is a great gift, his paintings bring joy and happiness to a subject that an earlier generation had viewed through ‘war torn’ eyes.

Saul achieves a translation of an experimental stimulus into a new graphic language.

Clark Rickard July 2022

Education

Winchester School of Art – Fine Art (BA)

Falmouth Collage of Art – Foundation Art and Design

Solo exhibitions

2022

‘Make or break’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2021

‘Make mistakes’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘Light feeds colour’ Valency Fine Art at The Rock Institute, Cornwall

2020

‘My immediate space, Padstow Gallery, Cornwall
‘Made in the moment’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2019

‘Considered intuition’ Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘Breathe it in’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘New work’ Wave 7 Gallery, Wadebridge, Cornwall
‘Love every minute’ The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2018

‘Being There’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘It’s all about the light’ Salthouse 1 Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘Nothing is permanent’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘Summer exhibition’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall
‘Trust your instinct’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘It just is’ Salthouse 2 Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2017

‘Painting Is Freedom’ Salthouse 2 Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘Every Mark Made’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall
‘What I Feel’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘Soaking Up The Atmosphere’ Salthouse 1 Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2016

‘Light On Grey’ Theatre Royal Plymouth Gallery, Devon
‘Coast On Canvas’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘New Paintings’ Valency Fine Art at The Rock Institute, Cornwall
‘Cornish Summer Paintings’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall
‘Paint, Sun And Sand’ The Willoughby Gallery, Bude Castle, Cornwall
‘On The Beach’ Salthouse 2 Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2015

‘Abstraction And Accuracy’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘Before The Turn’ The Poly Falmouth Gallery, Cornwall
‘Across The Camel’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall
‘Before The Turn Part 2’ The Poly Falmouth Gallery, Cornwall

2014

‘Where Land Meets Sea’ Artmill Gallery, Plymouth, Devon
‘Shorelines’ Valency Fine Art at The Rock Institute, Cornwall
‘Sand Under Foot’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall

2013

‘Outlines Of Land’ The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
‘From The Heart’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall

2012

‘Cornwall’s Lost Coastline’ Valency Fine Art at The Rock Institute, Cornwall
‘Uncovered Colour’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall

2011

‘Daymer Bay And Its Surrounding Shores’ Wave 7 Gallery, Trelights, Cornwall
‘The Roar Of The Sea’ The Alverton Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
‘Private Views’ The Old Vicarage Open House, St Clether, Cornwall

2010

‘7 Bays’ Valency Fine Art at The Rock Institute, Cornwall
‘Headlands And Horizons’ Over The Moon Gallery, St Agnes, Cornwall
‘Saul Cathcart at Duchy Square’ Duchy Square Centre for Creativity, Princetown, Devon

2009

‘New Paintings’ Valency Fine Art at Exeter Castle, Cornwall
‘Light Winning’ Artistic Alliance at The Grain Store, Cork, Ireland

2008

‘Emotive Landscapes’ Artonomy Fine Art, Truro, Cornwall
‘Cornish Cliffs’ The Willoughby Gallery, Bude Castle, Cornwall

2007

‘Seascapes’ Valency Fine Art at The Rock Institute, Cornwall
‘Seascapes Part 2’ The St Enodoc Hotel, Rock, Cornwall
“Cornwall’s Rugged Skin’ The North Cornwall Museum, Camelford, Cornwall
‘Strangles’ St Clether School Room, Cornwall

2006

‘New Work’ The Arts Gallery, Okhampton, Devon
‘Paintings’ The Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall

2005

‘Sea and Landscape Paintings’ Southgate Arch Gallery, Launceston, Cornwall

Represented by

cornwallcontemporary.com

padstowgallery.co.uk

penwithgallery.com

valencyfineart.com

gallerytresco.co.uk

morgansfalmouth.com