Geoff Francis

Award-winning artist Geoff Francis has been selected five times into the juried round in Saatchi Showdowns. His photography has also won awards. His work is attracting a keen interest and is considered very collectable.

'Of late, as I paint, words come into my head as clues to what the emerging painting is saying for me. When it has been finished some time later, perhaps, even immediately, the meaning comes clear. It's like looking back into a dream which has dredged itself from my subconscious.

'I have returned to experimenting with strong sculptural effects using the canvas and the paint. As always I make use of mainly reclaimed commercial paint which otherwise, if buried, would be a poison in the earth. This perhaps embodies the message of the painting in the medium.'

Geoff's painting 'Imagine No John Lennon' won through to the second, juried, round of the Saatchi Abstract Showdown (March 2012), one of just 300 chosen from an initial 3300 entrants.

His surreal painting 'Blind Cheetah with a Human Skin Coat' was just one of 300 selected out of more than 2200 entries in the first round of the Saatchi Surreal Showdown (July 2012).

His photograph 'Chance Encounter on Kimmeridge Bay' was the winner of the Close Up Coast catego...

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Current Exhibition: 'When a House Becomes A Work of Art' Open House & Art 16-17th January 2016
11am-3pm Swanage, Dorset. Details www.artistgeofffranci.com

Recent Exhibitions
5th-30th April 2013. Thames 21 Photography Award exhibition, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
29th Mar-19th Apr 2013 Jurassic Coast Photography Award 2013 exhibition (winners and commended photos): Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre, Dorset
12th May 2013 Solo selling exhibition of art photography and original art at the Orange Grove Centre, Norwich
14th-20th May 2013 Jurassic Coast Photography Award 2013 exhibition (winners and commended photos): Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Castle, Dorset
June 2013 Jurassic Coast Photography Award 2013 exhibition (winners and commended photos): The Lulworth Heritage Centre, Lulworth Castle, Dorset
July-August 2013 Expressionist Nudes - paintings and prints at Sinsins Lovestore, Norwich

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Solo Exhibition 'Twelve', River Green, Norwich - abstract paintings
2012 'artist geoff francis @ River Green: Photographs from Nature' 12 photographs from nature at River Green, Norwich...