Theo Crutchley-Mack, Marine House

BACKGROUND AND TECHNIQUE

CORNWALL

Theo Crutchley-Mack is a young contemporary British artist who is rapidly building an impressive reputation.

As a teenager Theo designed a 50 pence coin that was minted into national circulation with royal approval, sparking a clear artistic direction from a young age.

​Since graduating from Falmouth University with a sell-out degree show, he has continued to exhibit successfully in galleries around the UK.​

Theo strives to record the obscure landscape, often abandoned and remote. He spends many hours outside making plein air paintings that feed larger abstracted works. His studio paintings start out as wooden panels which are built up with multiple layers of splintered wood, usually offcuts from a boatbuilder friend. This is a sculptural approach to painting in which the underlying textures are often more prominent than the paint itself.

SUCCESS
Theo has received numerous awards including the Cultivator Cornwall ‘Creative Investment Grant’, West Wales Young Artist Award, Tresco Prize for Drawing and the Monty Parkin Memorial Prize. His work is in collections worldwide including the British Antarctic Survey and MOMA Machynlleth. He was also featured on Landscape Artist of the Year in 2017.