'Haworth's rigorous structure recalls late-medieval, early-Renaissance compositions - think of Piero di Cosimo, for instance…. High praise, indeed, but not excessive, I think.' - Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times

Spring is Emma Haworth's seventh solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. It explores Haworth's fascination with the seasons, using oil on linen and watercolour. Haworth captures the particular vibrancy of that season, using a carefully chosen palette of blues and greens, and an observant eye.

Haworth has been working with the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery for over twelve years. As well as exhibiting internationally, Haworth has also won prestigious prizes for her painting, including First Prize in The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition in 2010, and joint First Prize in The National Art Open in the same year.

Emma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris or some other great urban centre: it is a constantly shifting drama, of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both architectural and natural.

Haworth disciplines her vision of this teeming stage through long study as well as through sketching and photography. The scene before her is one of extraordinary complexity, a complexity that she readily embraces. Haworth is somehow able to distil both the telling, individual detail - the plastic bag caught in the branches of a winter tree, the Hyde Park sunbather's slim-line briefcase - and a vital sense of the whole panorama - the quality of light falling through London plane trees or bouncing off New York skyscrapers, the sense of movement in a crowd, the sense of pleasure on a Bank Holiday.

Haworth's work has received wide critical recognition. She was awarded the Woodhay Picture Gallery Prize by the New English Art Club in 2001, and was nominated for the Hunting Art Prize at the Royal College of Art in both 1999 and 2000.. In 2010 she won joint First Prize in the National Art Open Competion, as well as First Prize in The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition; Frank Whitford, the Sunday Times art critic, and one of the judges of the competition, praised her painting, Snowy Woods:

'The rigorous structure recalls late-medieval, early-Renaissance composition - think of Piero di Cosimo, for instance - although I am also reminded of Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow. High praise, but not excessive, I think'.

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Related images

  1. Emma Haworth, Balloon Fiesta, 2014, Oil on Linen,120 x 120 cm
  2. Emma Haworth, Secret Garden III, 2013, Watercolour and collage on paper, 69 x 79 framed
  3. Emma Haworth, Balloons and Fairground, 2014, oil on linen, 62 x 68 cm
  4. Emma Haworth, Secret Garden I, 2013, Watercolour and collage on paper, 69 x 79 cm
  5. Emma Haworth, Climbing Trees I, 2013, Oil on Canvas, 120 x 130 cm
  6. Emma Haworth, Secret Garden II, 2013, Watercolour and collage on paper, 69 x 79 cm