ARTISTS
JAMES EDDY
James is a sculptor and site-specific artist based in West Cornwall. Born in Truro in 1975. He has been following a broad and varied artistic journey all his life, exhibiting and delivering projects both nationally and internationally.
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James' love of nature led him to study Environmental Science at university. In 1998 he volunteered as an artist-maker for Kneehigh Theatre, this experience of site-specific community arts projects inspired him to become a practicing visual artist after graduating in 1999.
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He worked as an assistant artist and project manager for El Anatsia in 2004 at the Eden Project, creating the Gateway to Africa sculpture. In 2010 he was invited to be artist in residence at the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Which culminated in the creation of the 'Growth and Decay', charcoal sculpture. The sculpture is a living and decaying piece, a part of nature, gradually changing and evolving with its surroundings.
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James was invited in 2015 to create sculptures for the Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The same year he was selected to represent Cornwall at the Lorient Inter Celtic festival.
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Since then he has exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea, the 'Fresh Air' 2017 sculpture biennale, for which he was awarded a Quenington Sculpture Trust Bursary. Pre-pandemic James exhibited twice at the Breeze Art Fair and the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire. In 2020 he was awarded an Arts Council for England emergency grant.
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Recently James has created several large-scale sculptures for the Lost Gardens of Heligan and is also a part time MA Fine Art research student at Arts University Plymouth.
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STATEMENT,
I have always had a great love of nature, of being outdoors and Zen Buddhism. The experiences of working in the countryside, playing in the sea and the knowledge learnt during my environmental science degree, have greatly underpinned and inspired my artistic career.
I try to create a natural and often gnarly simplicity in my work, capturing the essence of things in a form of visual poetry. A Japanese concept that conveys this for me is, 'Mono-no-aware' , which in one way can be defined as a sense of 'Ah-ness'. ​​
COLIN CUDE
COLIN CUDE
Throughout a varied career Colin has used art to express his relationship with his surroundings. The urban landscapes of London or the beautiful countryside of Cornwall. Using a variety of mediums and styles his work is always exploring the use of colour and texture.