Rising tide, Medway estuary (Kent), signed with monogram, 2013
The salt marshes in the estuary of the Medway form the basis for this evanescent vision of floating islands on a calm breadth of river which mirrors the hazy sky, in a very British recasting of a...
View ArticleWire across the field (West Lulworth, Dorset, nr Durdle Door), signed with...
These are late summer fields on the coastal lands above Durdle Door, harvested or on the point of harvest, where the dried clumps of weeds and grasses which cut off the viewer in the foreground hint at...
View ArticleTERRY WATTS – Driving in rain (M11 in Cambridgeshire), signed with monogram,...
The power of man and the power of nature meet in this dynamic and exciting work, which conjures the illusion of vast spatial depth, violent perspectival recession and mechanical speed from the flat...
View ArticleTERRY WATTS – Brightening later (Dorset-Hampshire border)
A dense and threatening cloak of charcoal cloud, heavy with rain, hangs above the narrow band of ploughed fields like an oppressive army. Theses are the flat, open stretches of farmland between Dorset...
View ArticleBERTRAM NICHOLLS (1883-1974) Windsor
A very English subject, treated with Nicholls’s characteristic sense of pastoral serenity and timelessness, in his thin washes of oil paint: this is a beautifully composed landscape. He renders the...
View ArticleVANESSA GARWOOD – EDGE OF THE WOOD
One of a series of plein air studies from Vanessa’s travels in South Africa, Spain and Brazil, this uncompromising view of slender trunks in the bright sunlight rejects the traditional rules of...
View ArticleVANESSA GARWOOD – TREES AND SHADOWS
This small landscape study opens onto a surprisingly complex interior of receding spaces separated by groups of trees and undergrowth, like the flats from a stage set. This sense of a maze-like...
View Articlevanessa garwood – orange trees
An avenue of small orange trees, laden with fruit, characteristic of southern Spain, marches away up a slope of tawny beaten earth. The sense of heat is palpable, and the sunlight appears to lie...
View ArticleOPPENHEIM
Oppenheim’s landscapes are more representational than either the schematic but very expressive civil defence scenes painted in London during the war, or his abstracted and stylized still life...
View ArticleGEORGE WEISSBORT (1928-) The rooftops of Ostend
Weissbort’s landscapes lovingly document the fields, downs and villages of his adoptive country, but range equally through Europe (Austria, France, Belgium) and beyond. The present painting is a...
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