Resort (ii)
29 May - 31 July 2004

Judith Tucker’s recent landscape paintings explore the Baltic seaside resorts in Northern Germany known as the Kaiserbade, which feature in the pre-World War II holiday photographs that her grandmother brought with her when she escaped from Germany in 1939.

Judith visited the resorts last year and worked in notebooks on location. She was intrigued both by the ways in which the architecture has changed through decay and regeneration and by the evocative empty strandkoerbe, a hybrid of beach hut and deck chair set against the flat, vast Baltic sea.

Back in the studio she worked from her notebooks to create large-scale oil paintings. Many of these new paintings are on show for the first time and were created especially for this exhibition at Gallery Oldham.

Supported by the Art and Humanities Research Board through the AHRB’s Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme.

Image: Strandkorb i, by Judith Tucker