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A Private View with Alan Cotton Points West - Issue One, 2011 Article by Judi Spiers Judi Spiers in conversation with Alan Cotton. Colaton Raleigh based Alan Cotton is one of Britain's most distinguished landscape artists. His efforts however weren't always appreciated. At One time his auntie wanted to throw him out . . .   Read full Article

A Life in Landscape Exeter Living - Autumn 2010 Article by Clare Blake Clare Blake talks to Alan Cotton, one of the most significant landscape painters working in the UK today. Clouds scud in torn ribbons across a stormy sky while shocks of white spray explode as breakers hit rocks and foam around knobbly striations of dark stone, like the partially submerged . . .   Read full Article

Friendships that helped make a dream come true Western Morning News - Saturday 25th September 2010 Article by Janet King Janet King finds artist Alan Cotton full of gratitude as his work flies off the wall. Meeting landscape artist Alan Cotton is an uplifting experience. Like one of his sweeping oil . . .   Read full Article

Art Request of Top Cruise Ship Magnate Sidmouth Herald - December 2009 It is the type of commission that comes along once in a life-time. For Colaton Raleigh artist Alan Cotton it was to produce five paintings of Venice for the Miami home of shipping magnate Howard Frank The vice-president of Carnival plc, a cruise company that encompasses Cunard and P&O as well as . . .   Read full Article

Painting Grounds Devon Life - November 2008 Article by Judi Spiers Alan Cotton's paintings celebrate his love of oil paint and his delight in looking at extraordinary places. Judi spoke to this distinguished artist at his studio in Colaton Raleigh. he Alan Cotton print Piemonte in Diano d'Alba - sold to Judi Spiers! Yes! After years of receiving . . .    Read full Article

Paint with a sensuous impact The Artist - August 2007 Article by Oliver Lange Inspired by the drama of cliffs and sea, Alan Cotton describes how he uses the texture of oil paint to achieve the powerful effects in his paintings Alan Cotton's evocative, powerfully expressed landscapes belong to the great tradition of English romantic painting. They are works inspired by significant places and specific . . .   Read full Article

The Artist's Palette - Alan Cotton The Artist - March 2007 Article by Oliver Lange An oil painter who works principally with painting knives explains to Oliver Lange how they determine his working method Alan Cotton works principally in oils, enjoying the sensuous nature of the medium and skilfully exploiting the use of various marks and . . .   Read full Article

Return to Hartland ART in Devon - issude 9, Summer 2007 Article by Jenny Pery Alan Cotton seems to be getting more vibrant with his views of the rugged coastline. Jenny Pery finds out what keeps on inspiring this South Devon painter n September the Walker Galleries in Sidbury are staging an exhibition of paintings by one of Devon's most prominent painters. Alan Cotton's exhibition, . . .   Read full Article

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 . . .   Read full Article

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 full Article

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 full Article

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

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 full Article

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 Article

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 full Article

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 full Article

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 full Article

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 . . .   Read full Article