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Gary Long
Gary Long was born in Birmingham in 1945. He attended Birmingham College of Art after which he spent two years working as an illustrator in Vancouver, Canada. On returning to England he resumed study at Manchester College of Art. Leaving college, he worked as a freelance illustrator for numerous national and international clients in publishing and advertising for many years before moving to Devon and then Cornwall, gradually concentrating more and more on his own painting.

Gary has exhibited in with several galleries in the UK, he has also showed in Vermont, Nantucket Island and New York. He lives in St Ives and it is the light and landscape of Cornwall that drew him there and that continues to inform his painting. Gary also enjoys part-time lecturing at the University College Falmouth.

Gary Long finds the inspiration for this collection of recent paintings in the Cornish coast and countryside. Each work captures his response to a place at a given moment in time under the influence of specific weather and light conditions. In the studio, working from sketches, memory and intuition the images become richly textural as Long translates onto the surface of the canvas all the movement and energy he has found in his original subject; the landscape and the forces of nature.

"It is with the push and drag of the paint building the surface to a point where I feel I have got close to the essence of my first vision." Gary Long