TAKE A WALK THROUGH 'NEVER REACHING THE HORIZON' - HARRY OUSEY'S ABSTRACTED LANDSCAPES
Harry Ousey (1915 – 1985), a prolific post-war modernist artist, lived a life devoted to capturing abstract landscapes in his gestural style.
A bohemian drifter, Ousey eluded broad recognition, although many figures in the art world recognised his significance. Later exposure of his art by his niece, Sue Astles, has elevated his body of work, with pieces held in prestigious collections across the country.
Explore the life and works of Ousey as he roamed the landscapes of Cornwall, Derbyshire, Italy and France, where Ousey’s story came to an end with his ashes scattered at the foot of Mont Sainte-Victoire in 1985.
A FREE EXHIBITION!
‘never reaching the horizon’
- Harry Ouseys abstracted landscapes
2ND OF OCTOBER 2021 - 8TH JANUARY 2022
Sadler Room,
Cooper Gallery
Church Street, Barnsley S70 2AH
cooper-gallery.com
Curated and supported by Elephantstones Gallery!
Harry's Legacy
After Harry’s death, Susie, Harry’s wife, brought as much work as she could back to England. It remained, untouched, in the attic of her home until her death in 1997, when his body of work was left to Harry’s niece, Sue Astles.
Sue, alongside her husband Ron, has worked tirelessly to bring Harry’s work back into the light to great success, as is recognised by this exhibition at the Cooper Gallery. Harry’s works can be found in public collections across the country - the Falmouth Art Gallery, the Salford Museum and Art Gallery and the Whitworth Art Gallery, which recently included Harry’s work in the Ruskin Retrospective alongside the likes of Turner and Nash.
With Harry Ousey's position in art history assured, Sue would like others to enjoy Harry's legacy through sale of selected works from this exhibition. See the works that are for sale in the exhibition catalogue below. Please contact the Cooper Gallery to organise purchase and payment!
In the last few years, Sue has worked closely with Simon, Suzanne and Eve Bridges at Elephantstones Gallery in Hayfield Village to create a new home for Harry’s work. Elephantstones are the curators of this exhibition.
“Curating this Harry Ousey exhibition is akin to taking a walk in familiar hills with a visitor to share a wonderful vantage point for the first time”
- Simon Bridges, Elephantstones Gallery.
Take a walk through the exhibition...
STATEMENT OILS
“The magnificent grandeur of landscape can be perfectly translated via oil paint.”
- Harry Ousey
Artworks:
1. NEW LANDSCAPE 1 (1963) OIL ON CANVAS - NFS
2. OUTER ISLANDS (1965) OIL ON CANVAS - NFS
3. UNTITLED (1963) OIL ON CANVAS - NFS
4. SERPENTINE (1964) OIL ON CANVAS - NFS
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
EARLY WORKS
“When one has looked and seen, sea, sky, land, one will have realised there is so much more than just a view.”
- Harry Ousey
ARTWORKS:
5. LONDON LIGHTS UP AGAIN (1945) OIL ON CANVAS - NFS
6. ST IVES (1950) WATERCOLOUR - £750
7. ST IVES (1952) WATERCOLOUR - £750
8. HILL FARM HAYFIELD (1947) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
9. ZENNOR ROAD (1958) OIL ON BOARD - £950
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
SMALL OILS
“Paint strokes must be of interest and beauty in themselves.”
- Harry Ousey
artworks:
10. UNTITLED (1973) OIL ON BOARD - £850
11. HEADLAND TWO (1964) OIL ON CANVAS - £850
12. UNTITLED (1970) OIL ON BOARD - £650
13. CORNISH HEADLAND (1959) OIL ON BOARD - £950
14. PAINTING BY HARRY OUSEY (1970) OIL ON BOARD - NFS
15. OFF PZ (1970) OIL ON BOARD - NFS
16. UNTITLED (1970) OIL ON BOARD - £650
17. TREES IN THE WIND (1970) OIL ON BOARD - NFS
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
STATEMENT OIL
“The deepening shadows lengthening to engulf the shafts of sunlight.”
- Harry Ousey
ARTWORKS:
18. NEW LANDSCAPE (1962) OIL ON CANVAS - £2800
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
EXPLORATION
“The days when Harry Ousey paints the colours flow, they divide themselves and the canvas takes a breath.”
- Harry Ousey
artworks:
19. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (1977) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
20. UNTITLED (1970) GOUACHE & WATERCOLOUR - £750
21. UNTITLED (1970) GOUACHE & WATERCOLOUR -£750
22. FIGURE (1977) WATERCOLOUR - £800
23. UNTITLED (1950) WATERCOLOUR - £900
24. PORTRAIT (1971) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
25. UNTITLED (1950) WATERCOLOUR - £600
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
QUARRY
“Composition within composition, looking thro' each part and then the whole as a whole.”
- Harry Ousey
ARTWORKS:
26. UNTITLED (1973) WATERCOLOUR - £1200
27. UNTITLED (1974) WATERCOLOUR - £1900
28. UNTITLED (1975) WATERCOLOUR - £1200
29. QUARRY (1974) WATERCOLOUR - £1900
30. UNTITLED (1973) WATERCOLOUR - £1200
31. UNTITLED (1974) WATERCOLOUR - £1200
32. QUARRY (1974) WATERCOLOUR - £1500
33. QUARRY (1973) WATERCOLOUR - £1900
34. UNTITLED (1973) WATERCOLOUR - £1500
35. UNTITLED (1974) WATERCOLOUR - £1500
36. UNTITLED (1974) WATERCOLOUR - £1500
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
EDGE MOVEMENT
“The introduction of a single line, or area to which another is added, then forms an image between, and another edge and image on each side or beyond. The ridges of a mountain as the mists rise.”
- Harry Ousey
Artworks:
37. EDGE (1967) WATERCOLOUR - £1300
38. EDGE (1967) WATERCOLOUR - £1300
39. EDGE (1967) WATERCOLOUR - £1800
40. UNTITLED (1972) WATERCOLOUR - £1300
41. UNTITLED (1972) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
EDGE MOVEMENT
“When one reaches the edge, limit, of knowledge, of understanding, one may continue from there if one introduces deliberately a stage beyond that point, pursuing that movement then extends the previous edge.”
- Harry Ousey
ARTWORKS:
42. EDGE (1967) WATERCOLOUR - £1800
43. UNTITLED (1983) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
44. EDGE (1967) WATERCOLOUR - £1300
45. EDGE (1967) WATERCOLOUR - £1800
46. UNTITLED (1972) WATERCOLOUR - £1300
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
FRANCE & ITALY
“The heat haze so great that the intense colour is almost taken by the shine and shimmer of the sea and sand”
- Harry Ousey
artworks:
47. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £900
48. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
49. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
50. UNTITLED (1980) WATERCOLOUR - £1300
51. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
52. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
53. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
A JAPANESE INFLUENCE
“The idea that one could paint not only as one saw but as one felt.”
- Harry Ousey
ARTWORKS:
54. UNTITLED (1983) WATERCOLOUR - £850
55. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
56. UNTITLED (1983) WATERCOLOUR - £950
57. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
58. UNTITLED (1981) WATERCOLOUR - £850
59. UNTITLED (1983) WATERCOLOUR - £850
For purchases and payment, please contact the Cooper Gallery directly. Call 01226 790270.
THE LATTER DAYS
“The impossibility of the constant change, fast moving thoughts, edge, we go not beyond, yet...”
- Harry Ousey
ARTWORKS:
60. UNTITLED (1982) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
61. MONT ST. VICTOIRE (1982) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
62. MONT ST. VICTOIRE (1982) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
63. UNTITLED (1963) WATERCOLOUR - £850
64. UNTITLED (1982) WATERCOLOUR - £1100
65. THE MOUNTAIN (1979) WATERCOLOUR - NFS
66. THE MOUNTAIN (1980) WATERCOLOUR - £1100
67. THE BAY ANOTHER DAY (1979) WATERCOLOUR - £1100
