James Maberly, Christopher Johnson and Cornelia FitzRoy 

Private views: October 29th 6pm - 9pm & 30th 11am - 4pm, then by appointment from the 1st November - 12th November 2022. 

For appointments please contact Michael FitzRoy on Tel; 07500 333038 or email; mrcfitzroy@yahoo.co.uk 

 The coming together of these three artists is a moment on which to reflect. All three pursue landscape vigorously, and yet all three have a very different take on the work they are making. Johnson has travelled widely in the last three years, painting and drawing along the way, whilst Maberly has concentrated on the landscape immediately around him. Cornelia FitzRoy has developed her own very vibrant and singular style.

Cornelia FitzRoy is a Norfolk landscape plein air artist who uses colour and distinctive shapes to show her local scapes. Often returning to the same places Cornelia captures what is the same and different depending on light and weather giving each work a new character. She sees her way forward through her composition along paths, tracks, and lanes, looking ahead to the light at the end of the tunnel. Cornelia did her foundation at the Byam Shaw School of Art (now Central St Martins) and then went on to complete a BA Hons in Graphics and Illustration at Chelsea School of Art. 

Cornelia exhibits widely in East Anglia and London, and she has undertaken a number of commissions. Her work was selected for the 2019 Royal Academy Summer Show and is featured in the 2019 RA Calendar for June. 

Christopher Johnson, formerly of Suffolk and now living in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is a hugely talented painter and drawer whose work is regularly bought by collectors across the globe and who recently held a highly successful one-man show in Gloucestershire. To quote Nicholas Hammond (Professor, Cambridge University), ‘Christopher Johnson’s paintings have that wonderful combination of familiarity and surprise. We are able to recognise the beauty of a landscape and yet to be disturbed or delighted by unexpected details that both belong and do not belong to their surroundings: redundant traffic cones jauntily contrasted with yellow fields and battered vehicles set against farm buildings … his paintings retain a sincerity that is difficult to forget’. 

James Maberly lives in Suffolk and has been developing a collection of landscape images of the farming areas around him. These are gentle, quiet images, characterised by the use of many and varied colours to reveal his subjects and the light that surrounds them and in some cases, resorting to black and white to define very specific feelings. If one word suggests what he means to convey, it is the ‘feelings’ the location conveys as he works on each image. 

He has developed a new way of working in which he redefines perspective and brings large areas of landscape into view which would otherwise not be seen in the same way, inspired by the wonderful old image painted in 1400BC of Nebamun’s garden and also the Mappa Mundi, completed around 1300AD.