June Launder
June Launder grew up in Cornwall and lives and works in Dorset. Working with acrylic and pencil, her naive style and seemingly simple surfaces hide a depth of built-up layers and scumbled paint. Using muted tones her work reflects her concern with the beauty and danger of the sea and her respect for communities who make their living from the sea.
She spends much time at the sea’s edge or atop the coastal paths with sketchbook and pencil. She makes quick marks, absorbing her surroundings and capturing the wildlife, the boats, the buildings and the people who coexist in harmony at the water’s edge.
From her beach hut studio she then turns these drawings to paintings, not directly transposing, but adding and removing elements from earlier impressions and relying on instinctive notes jotted alongside the sketches. Her intuition for the completed painting comes from a lifetime lived by the sea.
June exhibits regularly at galleries and art fairs throughout the country.
Selected Exhibitions
White Space Art, Totnes
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Gordon Hepworth Fine Art, Newton St Cyres
New York Art Fair
Gallery 27, Cork Street W1
20/21 British Art Fair, Kensington
Art London, Islington
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
Bettles Gallery, Ringwood Solo Exhibition
Artworks, Portland
Byard Art, Cambridge
The Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge
Wren at Salt Gallery, Burford
The Glasgow Art Fair
Maltby Contemporary Fine Art
Hyde Park Gallery
Chelsea Art Fair
The Mall Galleries
