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Vanessa Garwood: abstraction, reality and imagination
Vanessa Garwood, Self-portrait One of our up-&-coming young artists, Vanessa Garwood was trained at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence. She studied painting and sculpture, and later served a three-month sculpture apprenticeship in South Africa. This awareness of form in … Continue reading
Posted in contemporary paintings, Landscape, Portrait, still life
Tagged 21st century artists, British artists, British paintings, British pictures, contemporary artists, contemporary paintings, landscape, landscape paintings, Still life, still life paintings, subject paintings, Vanessa Garwood, young artists
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Japonisme, japonaiserie and chinoiserie
Victor Fontaine (1837-84), Guéridon fleuri The collecting of oriental works of art is an activity with a relatively long history in Britain. Chinese and Japanese artefacts had been eagerly acquired by English connoisseurs from the 17th century onwards: see, for … Continue reading
Empty chambers, crowded with life
Belgian or French School, Sunlight on the table, 1909 Paintings of interior scenes go back in date as far as figure and still life subjects, as they were a necessary part of the background of each; but a whole furnished … Continue reading
Why do we like naïve art?
Late 19th-early 20th century American School, Still life with fish, after William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) The Association of British Naïve Artists publishes quite a long introduction to the history of naïve art on its website, reiterating the qualities of innocence, … Continue reading
The Artist’s Palate
Queen Nefetari makes an offering to Osiris, Tomb QV66, Valley of the Queens, Egypt, 1255 BC Food and art have been linked since very early times – perhaps for different reasons, as with the striking fresoes in the Tomb of … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, still life
Tagged Caravaggio, Ferran Adriå, Stephen Rose, Still life, still life paintings, symbolism, Van Eyck
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The Hungry Eye: an exhibition of new still life paintings by Stephen Rose
Open from 22 April – 3 May 2013 and presented by Mark Mitchell Paintings & Drawings at 17 Avery Row, Brook Street, London W1K 4BF Stephen Rose’s work is a wonderfully contemporary take on the classical tradition of still life painting. He … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, still life
Tagged British paintings, British pictures, Stephen Rose, Still life, still life paintings
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