Michael Cullimore

'Cullimore has always had an odd and individual way of looking at things; he is a homegrown Symbolist, excited by the way that signs and portents and unexpected allusions seem to be half hidden in every shape of hill and valley, and finds magic and mystery in the most commonplace objects.....' John Russell Taylor writing in The Saturday Times

Born in Wiltshire in 1936, Cullimore studied at Goldsmiths' School of Art. He lived for many years in Wales where he was the curator of University College. Since 1968 Cullimore has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions around the country. He now lives in Devon

Michael Cullimore's paintings are in many public collections including The National Museum of Wales, The Welsh Arts Council, Salisbury Museum, The Creasy Collection, Salisbury Library, Bournemouth Orchestras, Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum and Bournemouth and Devizes Museum.

Michael Cullimore's solo exhibition at The Art Stable was reviewed in the 'Where to buy...' section of 'The Week':
Michael Cullimore (b.1936) 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 paints bold, solid shapes and sweeping landscape rhythms with terrific fluency and vigour. His colours are sometimes sombre, sometimes subtle and often incandescent, lending a radiant energy to the landscape of, for example, Wiltshire and southwest France. his surreal imagination makes free with natural forms: one painting is called 'Woman Turning into a Galaxy'; in another work, cylindrical hay bales suffer the same fate. In 'Suffolk Resurrection', we look down on a church tower by the sea while a small figure disappears into a stormy sky. This survey (1977 to the present) of Cullimore's highly individual and entertaining work is a real treat.

Blackbird on a Sunflower watercolour 37cm x 55cm sold	Alps, watercolour 33cm x 50cm £ 650 (framed)	Somerset Landscape watercolour 37cm x 52cm £ 650 (framed)
Landscape Nude watercolour 29cm x 38cm £ 475 (framed)	Evening Landscape watercolour 37cm x 52cm £ 650 (framed)	Wet Landscape watercolour 37cm x 52cm £ 650 (framed)
Mosel Vines watercolour 40cm x 38cm £ 550 (framed)	Still Life with Jaw Boat watercolour 36cm x 52cm £ 650 (framed)	October Wood watercolour] 51cm x 66cm £ 750 (framed)
Spring Storm watercolour 36cm x 52cm sold	Sea and Galaxy II watercolour 56cm x 73cm sold	Fruiting Resurection Tree Pastel 76cm x 56cm £ 875 (framed)
Italian Sunflowers watercolour 75cm x 56cm £ 825 (framed)	Bouquet watercolour and charcoal 75cm x 56cm £ 825 (framed)	Bouquet watercolour and ink 75cm x 56cm £ 700 (unframed)
The Mosel near Kroy watercolour and ink 37cm x 55cm £ 600 (unframed)	Light on a Wiltshire Landscape Gouache 37cm x 54cm £ 600 (unframed)	Fragments of Time watercolour 56cm x 75cm sold
Stubble Field watercolour and ink 33cm x 50cm £ 475 (framed)	Wiltshire Autumn watercolour and ink 37cm x 55cm sold	Singing Moonbird Watercolour and charcoal 37cm x 54cm £ 650 (framed)
Tuscan Landscape watercolour 38cm x 56.5cm £ 600 (unframed)	Dorset Beach watercolour 37cm x 55cm £ 600 (unframed)	South West France Landscape watercolour 37cm x 55cm sold
Dorset Landscape watercolour 37cm x 55cm sold	Dartmoor watercolour 37cm x 55cm sold	Wiltshire Landscape watercolour 37cm x 55cm sold
Chalk Fossils Watercolour 37cm x 55cm sold	Three Spirals watercolour and ink 28cm x 38cm sold	Haybales turning into Galaxies watercolour and ink 23.5cm x 22cm sold