Michael Cullimore

"Michael Cullimore works chiefly in watercolours, and he belongs loosely to the poetic and visionary strand of British landscape painting which starts with Blake and Samuel Palmer and culminates in the airy surrealism of Paul Nash."

'Cullimore's career brought him twenty years' residence in Wales, first to teach, then as curator of Oriel Bangor. He has been a full-time painter since 1983, moving from his native Wiltshire to Devon in 1997. Throughout his exhibiting career he has used literary, philosophical and narrative sources to enrich his poetic landscapes and give symbolic force to his art. The curator Clive Adams has recently described him as "a man of passion and intellect in the tradition of such visionaries as William Blake and David Jones".'

Michael studied at Swindon School of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work is in many public collections including The National Museum of Wales; Salisbury Museum; The Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournmouth; Gwynned County Council; Devizes Museum; Welsh Arts Council.

Solo Exhibitions

2009
The Seer, John Creasey Museum, Salisbury
2005, 2003
COSA Gallery, London
1999
The Burton Art Gallery, Bideford
1998
Works On Paper, Michael Parkin Gallery, London
1989
Devizes Museum
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
1988
Works On Paper 1986-88, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
1986
Wiltshire Landscapes & Bronze Age Urn Marks, Salisbury Museum
Drawings & Paintings, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
1983
I Am Awake In The Universe, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno; Oriel Bangor; Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Chapter, Cardiff; The Minories, Colchester; Aberystwyth Arts Centre
1980
Air Gallery, London
1975
Liverpool Academy

Group Exhibitions

1998
Summer Exhibition, Michael Parkin Gallery, London
1994
Gillian Jason Gallery, Art 94, Business Design Centre, London
1992
British Month, Roy Miles, London
1991
Hortus Cambrensis, National Trust/Davies Memorial Gallery, National Museum of Wales
1991, 1989, 1987, 1986, 1985
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
1983
Three Artists Working In Wales, St Paul's Gallery, Leeds
1981
Art & The Sea, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno; Arnolfini, Bristol; Sunderland Arts Centre; ICA, London
1980
The Probity Of Art, Welsh Arts Council
NWAA Collection, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno
Air & Space Auction, London
1979
The Native Land, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno
1977
Masquerade, Welsh Arts Council
1975
Oriel, Cardiff
Yew Tree Gallery, Derbyshire
1974
Theatr Ardudwy, Coleg Harlech
1973, 1974
Caernarvonshire Arts Project, Liverpool Academy & Bangor Art Gallery
1969
North Wales Arts Association
1968
Wales Now, Welsh Arts Council
Group 12 Open Exhibition, Welsh Arts Council