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Alan on tour
with Charles
The Exmouth Journal - 2005
Article by Di Bowerman
Colaton Raleigh-based international artist Alan Cotton
tells Di Bowerman about his time on a royal tour.
If, in the future, Prince Charles takes up oil painting instead
of watercolours, it might be because Colaton Raleigh landscape
artist Alan Cotton has had a hand in it.
Alan has just returned from accompanying the Prince on his .
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A Sense of
Place
International Artist - April/May 2004
In this showcase of Alan Cotton's paintings
from a recent London exhibition, the reader is taken from the
searing yellows and crimsons of the Mediterranean to the cool
greens and blues of Ireland, from the sun bleached square in
Marrakech at midday to the early morning interior of the Venice
Fish Market. Each painting is distinctively a "Cotton", yet variation
and contrast give each one . . . Read
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Rich rewards
of life on a knife edge
Western Morning News - 5 December 2003
Article by Frank Ruhrmund
Frank Ruhrmund previews a Christmas show by an artist
he has known for two decades.
One of this country's leading landscape painters, Devon artist
Alan Cotton, is opening the doors of his studio this weekend
for a Christmas exhibition of paintings and print . . . Read
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Alan's art
set for a return to its Devon roots
Express & Echo - Saturday 8 February 2003
Article by Alan Cole
WEEKEND INTERVIEW
Devon artist Alan Cotton has travelled the world searching for
the perfect view. His journeys have taken him far and wide from
the pastoral landscapes of mainland Europe to the striking mountain
regions of Morocco. But the roaming painter always returns to
Devon . . . Read full Article |
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Alan Cotton
- 'A sense of place'
Devon Life - Spring 2001
Article by Ian Collins
Paintings from Venice, Provence, Piemonte and the West
Coast of Ireland.
Alan Cotton is skilled in the art of communication. He is a landscape
painter, whose passions are for places and pigment and people.
Throughout his life, accidents and chance . . . Read
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Images New
The Exmouth Journal - 11th March 1999
Painter Alan Cotton fresh back from the fascinating sub
continent of India.
Painter Alan Cotton never ceases to search for new and stimulating
starting points for his paintings. This has taken him to many
parts of the world, though until now he has worked mainly in
Europe, for 20 years in Provence and Venice, but also in Cyprus,
Tuscany and more recently in Co Kerry,
Connemara and . . . Read full
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Alan Cotton "Have
Easel Will Travel"
Devon Life - September 1997
"From Devon to Ireland via Provence, Tuscany, Cyprus
and Venice".
When Alan Cotton first began painting in Devon in the early 70's he was captivated by the drama of Hartland
in the north and the tranquil beauty of the Otter Valley near
his home in Colaton Raleigh. His Hartland canvases captured the
power and grandeur of the . . . Read
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A Christmas
Taste of Sunshine
Style Magazine - Winter 1991
Article by Linda Winter
My first visit to the studio and home of the painter, Alan Cotton
was on a late September day when the air was still brimming with
the scents and sounds of an English summer. Buzzards soared over
the rolling Devon landscape, the sky was still sharp and blue.
In the distance were the rolling Westcountry . . . Read
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Red Arrows
lead artist to Cyprus
Western Morning News - 9 March 1991
Article by Derek Lean
Hurtling through the sky at 500 mph in
one of the Red Arrows' Hawk fighter-trainers might seem a far
cry from the world of an artist. But, in a way, for internationally
acclaimed East Devon artist Alan Cotton, the flight of a lifetime
was part of a voyage that led him to his . . . Read
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Alan Cotton
in Provence
Arts Review - 23 September 1988
Article by Graham Hughes
It is good news when a dealer as distinguished and energetic
as David Messum not only opens a sumptuous new London gallery,
but begins with two living artists. The first show there was
by John Miller (see our front cover, July 15). Now follows another
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