Frank Ferrie

Frank Ferrie is a West Sussex based artist who trained at Glasgow School of Art. Primarily an abstract painter, his work is nevertheless deeply informed by changes in the local and wider environment and related issues. For example, his last major show (Four Corners Gallery London, 2019) was based upon slate quarries in Wales and their effect on the surrounding landscape and people. Those ‘black’ paintings were steeped in personal experiences from North Wales - the slate mines, other abandoned spaces and machinery, the damp, dark nights, lack of light pollution, ancient hills and echoes from the decline of coal and other heavy industry. Current work centres on the gathering pace of coastal and glacial erosion. Others look at the way weather and tidal erosion can render the landscape and its forms anonymous and abstract (as they once were).