Samuel Bassett

Samuel Bassett’s paintings present the rituals of everyday life that tie us to a place and it’s history. Born in and still based in Penwith, Cornwall, Bassett draws on his surroundings for inspiration, referencing the local landscape, the figures that have and still do inhabit it, along with his own inner explorations. With a melancholic sense of humour and an intuitive use of the medium, his paintings are visceral, layered and expressive. In the teals, blues and dark greys that make up the distinctive palette of the Cornish coastline, Bassett portrays a place that has been much romanticised with a more real and personal account of how he knows it to be.