Sarah Ruthven and Cetta Di Lieto
10am - 5pm daily. (Last Tuesday 10am - 1pm)

This is an exhibition of two contemporary landscape artists, Sarah Ruthven and Cetta Di Lieto, who have a mutual love of painting in the Cornish landscape. Last year both painters completed the Landscape Mentoring program at Newlyn School of Art. Sarah is based in Lewes and Cetta in Cirencester.

Sarah Ruthven’s process begins in the landscape, skies, seas, footpaths and the expansive South Downs. By absorbing and connecting to the land en plein air she gets to know the area’s she paints intimately by repeatedly revisiting the same land point to paint throughout the seasons. To Sarah the act of painting is to emphasise visually the importance of our oceans and countryside, the desire to protect, honour and cerebrate them.

Cetta Di Lieto is drawn to overlooked spaces, indications of human impact within the landscape visually interest her. Pylons, buildings, and telephone wires provide lines and negative space which bisect the landscape, enjoying the balance and shapes they create. Her work is characterised by a nuanced and restrained palette.
Integrating painting, drawing and ceramics, surfaces are sanded, scratched, and overpainted aiming to simplify forms and create a taut quietness.