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Caroline Romer's landscapes of the Devonshire coastline, both feisty and calm

This October, an exhibition of new work by Caroline Romer at London's Coningsby Gallery will celebrate the artist's life-long relationship with the landscape.

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All courtesy of the artist and Coningsby Gallery

All courtesy of the artist and Coningsby Gallery

Reflecting her own internal sense of harmony and peace with the world, Caroline has often driven away from the UK to the blue skies of the Pyrenees, the brilliant colours of Africa, Asia and New Mexico. More recently, she has been drawn back to an exploration of the coastline of Devon.

Practically cropped to abstraction with the sea often occupying fully half the composition, Caroline's rocky coastline paintings appear alternatively angry, aggressive, unyeilding, locked in battle with a feisty sea or calm and tranquil as the tide recedes as if the storm never happened.

Caroline Romer at London's Coningsby Gallery runs from 1–6 October 2018. Discover more about Caroline at www.ceromerpaintings.com.

Caroline Romer's painting of a Devonshire rocky coastline with turquoise sea, jagged dark rocks streaked with yellow lichen, and distant islands beneath a cloudy sky
Abstract landscape painting of a Devonshire coastline with rocky cliffs in grey and black, yellow sky, and orange and purple bands representing sea and shore
Figure in a sunlit studio seated at a table facing a window with gridded panes overlooking a coastal landscape, with an easel and materials nearby
Abstract painting of a rocky Devonshire coastline with white surf, layered pink and ochre rocks, and turquoise sea beneath a pale sky
A painted sailing boat with white sail and brown hull tilts dramatically against blue sky and green headland, capturing the dynamic energy of the Devonshire coast
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