Background
He was born in 1936 in Wiltshire and has lived in North Wales since 1962.
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Michael Cullimore
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Cullimore studied at Goldsmiths" School of Artist
Career
Since 1972, he had become the Curator of University College North Wales Oriel, Bangor, for ten years. He now lives in Devon. Group Shows 2009, Mixed Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset 2008, A Mixed Exhibition to Coincide with Dorset Arts Week - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset 2007, Mixed Summer Exhibition - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset 1982, Art and the Sea - International Cooperation Administration - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London ‘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 John Russell Taylor, The Times Michael Cullimore"s solo exhibition at The Art Stable was reviewed in the "Where to buy.." section of "The Week": ‘Michael Cullimore works mainly 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’.
