JAKE ATTREE

JAKE ATTREE: A NORTHERN SENSIBILITY
29 October 2022 – 7 January 2023

This two-part exhibition of York-born artist Jake Attree posed the question: what is a ‘Northern sensibility?’ It explored Attree’s abiding fascination with Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his North European aesthetic.

Contact us for up-to-date availability of works from this exhibition.

Above: Procession to Calvary, oil on panel, 2022, £18,000

Jake Attree has lived and breathed Bruegel since childhood. He remembers watching the drovers driving their sheep past his classroom window and how it reminded him of the Return of the Herd. When Attree’s compositions include figures, they often – as in Bruegel – are depicted intent on their own private journey, indifferent to the vast landscape around them, or the importance of events happening just outside their field of vision, utterly absorbed by their own tragedies or triumphs. 

Attree sees himself firmly as a figurative artist: ‘Everything I paint is based on something I have observed and drawn’. As he drills down from his initial observations he reveals – sometimes in completely abstract terms – the very soul of his subjects.
Paula Jackson and Robert Teed
Co-Directors

We have produced a short film that explores the central themes of Jake’s exhibition. Click the link below to watch on YouTube:

And click below for our one minute question and answer film:

The Blue Hill by Jake Attree, oil on panel, £10,000
The Blue Hill, oil on panel, £10,000

York Minster from the City Walls, oil pastel, £5,000
Pickering Castle, oil pastel, £5,000
Pickering Castle, pen and ink, £1,000
Pickering Castle, oil pastel, £5,000
Pickering Castle, Bright Summer’s Day, oil pastel, £5,000
Byland Abbey, Overcast Day 1 & 2, oil pastel, £5,000 each
The Road to Helmsley, oil pastel, £5,000
Landscape near Welburn, oil pastel, £5,000
Looking Back at Helmsley, oil pastel, £5,000
The Ings by the Derwent at Malton, oil pastel on paper, £5,000
Figures in a Desert Landscape, oil pastel, £6,500
Composition with Moving Figures, Oil Pastel, £6,500
Landscape with Figures, oil pastel, £6,000
Themes and Variations, Derwent, 1-9, pen and ink, 20×24, £800 each
Hope Farm, Baildon, pen and ink, £1,000
High Street, Pickering, pen and ink, £1,000
‘A Small Drawing of Figures in Landscape’ Nos. 1-6, pen and ink, 20×24, £600
‘A Small Drawing of a Large Crowd’ Nos. 3-4, pen and ink, 20×24, £600

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