Geoff Powell

I started drawing and painting at the age of two and on and off for thirty years. It was then that I started painting seriously at the age of 33.  Being self-taught I am free of the expectations and limitations of a teacher.

I could write about my work in an arty way, but why?
You see in a painting a reflection of your mind. It is a great mistake to interpret what the artist had in mind when he or she made the work.

Mark Rothko: " A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it into the world "

Collectors of my paintings have proven the risk worth taking.

EXHIBITIONS

Red Earth Gallery 2010

Torre Abbey, Torbay: 27th September - 8th November 2008

Exeter Phoenix - 2008

Eyestorm Exeter - 2007/2008

Birdwood House, Totnes - 2007

The Turner Gallery, Exeter - mid 90s

The Chapel Gallery, Bruton - mid 80s

Daventry Street Gallery, London - 1971