From 21 October – 2 December 2011 Naomi Frears will be the Artist in Residence at Kestle Barton.

Artist’s Statement: “The six week residency here at Kestle Barton is a fantastic opportunity to immerse myself in a very different Cornish landscape and work without any distractions. My normal studio discipline continues but is combined with walking and drawing. The results of these explorations with my sketchbook – looking through trees and over fields and water – is all very seductive and these fragments of landscape are leaking into the work I am making on linen and paper. Also seeping in without my permission are colours such as the odd and beautiful green of Frenchman’s Creek and even the warm grey of the paintwork on the doors and windows of the beautiful buildings that make up Kestle Barton. It is an extraordinary place and it will be quite hard to leave.”

For more information about Naomi Frears please visit her website: http://naomifrears.com/