VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 25.2 W x 18.9 H x 2 D in
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Olive trees on the edge of the Mediterranean in Cap Ferrat. One of my favourite things to do when I was living in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, was to pack my rucksack for the day and set off to walk around the whole of Cap Ferrat. My route took me down the 54 steps from my top floor apartment, through the Rue Obscure to the waters' edge. I would then head east and take the heady pleasure of walking past the jasmine hedges next to the railway, passing the gates of Nellcote and on to the top of St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Heading for the bakery, I would collect a huge sandwich, look at the pretty dresses in some of the little shops, then walk on through the narrow streets of this sweet place. Gardens dripping with bougainvillea and jasmine lent their colours and scents to mark my passing through. Down I would go to the shore, slipping into the sea for a first early dip, and no-one else around. Standing under the ice-cold shower on the beach I'd see early sailors setting off and wave. I would sit on a stone, drying off and drawing what I was looking at, before gathering my things and moving on towards the Cap. As mid-day approached, I would look for shade, and here is a sweet glade where I sat and ate my slightly warm sandwich, sipped my slightly warm water, and drew the shimmering trees... In these paintings I just wanted to try to capture some of the feelings of being there, the warmth, the light, the colours, and I wanted people who looked at my work to have something of these feelings too,
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:25.2 W x 18.9 H x 2 D in
Frame:Brown
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Working from my studio in Selkirkshire in the Scottish Borders. I specialise in landscape painting and figurative sculpture. My pink resin Poll Dorset sheep sculpture 'Hello Dolly' was on show at the 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. My three bronze sheep are currently in the sculpture garden of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh (Originally shown at the Cookham Sculpture Festival sponsored by John Lewis 2022). Recent portrait works focus on women writers and include busts of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison and ongoing work on a bust of Hannah Arendt. Work in progress can be seen on this YouTube channel, https://bit.ly/2TWDAlH Autumn 2019 completed a private commission for a statuette in bronze of a pioneer of women’s golf for the R&A Golf Museum in St Andrews. Last solo exhibition pre-lockdown was a series of paintings shown at the John Radcliffe in Oxford, based on time spent on the Cote d'Azur. A series of drawings and paintings of Dorset landscapes and sheep paintings was shown at Aspects Gallery in Dorchester, summer 2018. Portrait sculpture work is in public and private collections in the UK, with several in the University of Edinburgh's collection. Other works are in France and the US. Born in Edinburgh, daughter of a sculptor and stonemason, I was trained in traditional methods at Liverpool and Winchester Schools of Art in the 1970’s and was an early winner of the Northern Young Contemporaries Prize , awarded by the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester in1975. Winchester had suberb visiting and in-house lecturers in the 1970's, benefitted from teaching by William Pye, Norman Ackroyd, Patrick Heron, John Bellany and many others who were both great artists and good teachers. My most notable work to date is a large bronze portrait of Nelson Mandela, for Glasgow City Council. A specialist in portraits from both live sitters and reconstructions, and also a classicist,I created a reconstruction of Alexander the Great in 2018, after a period of extensive research undertaken for an MA in Classics with the OU.
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