John Caple b. 1966
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John Caple’s family have been land workers in Mendip since the eighteenth century. He grew up in a close, rural community in which family stories and folk traditions were passed down through successive generations and which were to become the inspiration for his earliest paintings. Twenty-five years later, John Caple’s art remains woven into the landscape and history of Somerset as well as the rich tradition of poetry, folklore and magic that has held firm in Mendip. These are paintings built on the collective memory of generations who shared a profound connection to the natural world. It was their voice which resonates through the poetry of Coleridge, who lived on the Quantock Hills, Wordsworth and then Shelley, Keats and Emily Dickinson and it was in their poetry that John Caple turned to find another way of reaching into the landscape, most recently in exhibitions that used Shelley’s visionary language as a starting point for his paintings.
John Caple has exhibited with the John Martin Gallery in London for over 20 years. In 2011 he completed a cycle of three triptychs based on A Midsummer’s Night Dream for the Glyndebourne Festival. His works is held in collections throughout the world.
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'When we spend quiet moments in nature, a mysterious something, if we let it, seeps into our being. An internal response to nature that we can carry within us, to give us courage, like a simple folk charm, to protect us as we journey through our everyday lives.'
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Exhibitions
John Caple
The Woodman and The Nightingale2 - 24 Nov 2023'My paintings in many ways describe an internal world, a world which is best approached in quiet and still moments'. Taking its title from a poem by Shelley, The Woodman...Read moreIn The Pathless Woods
John Caple9 Nov - 10 Dec 2021The paintings in the this exhibition are images that were suggested by lines from three poems, two by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind and Mont Blanc, and...Read moreSilence and Twilight
John Caple6 - 30 Jun 2019The exhibition begins on midsummer’s eve and the magical descent into a summer’s night. It was the time when divinations revealed what the darker months of winter might bring: visions...Read moreOf Gardens Long Run Wild
John Caple2 - 25 Nov 2017I hoped to produce a series of paintings which would explore a relationship to both nature and mystery. In a world in which we can feel increasingly disenchanted from the...Read more
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 The Woodman and The Nightingale, John Martin Gallery
2021 Silence and Twilight, John Martin Gallery
2017 Of Gardens Long Run Wild, John Martin Gallery
2016 This Common Wild, John Martin Gallery
2014 In the Midnight Wood, John Martin Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Sun & Moon, Spirit Studios, Suffolk
2021 Winter Show, Everard Read, London
2019 A Summer Show, John Martin Gallery
2018 The Long Summer Show, John Martin Gallery
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