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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... John Caple’s family have been land workers in Mendip since the eighteenth century. He grew up in a close, rural... John Caple’s family have been land workers in Mendip since the eighteenth century. He grew up in a close, rural... John Caple’s family have been land workers in Mendip since the eighteenth century. He grew up in a close, rural...

    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.

  • '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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    • John Caple, Meeting by the Moonlight , 2024
      John Caple, Meeting by the Moonlight , 2024
    • John Caple, Woodland River, 2024
      John Caple, Woodland River, 2024
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    John Caple b. 1966

    Woodland River, 2024
    acrylic on canvas
    20 x 16 ins
    50.8 x 40.6 cm
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    £ 8,400.00 inc. vat
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    • John Caple

      John Caple

      The Woodman and The Nightingale 2 - 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...
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    • In The Pathless Woods

      In The Pathless Woods

      John Caple 9 Nov - 10 Dec 2021
      The 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...
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    • Silence and Twilight

      Silence and Twilight

      John Caple 6 - 30 Jun 2019
      The 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...
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    • Of Gardens Long Run Wild

      Of Gardens Long Run Wild

      John Caple 2 - 25 Nov 2017
      I 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...
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    John Caple
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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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    • John Caple

      John Caple

      March 11, 2022
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