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Painting, Gesso on Other
Size: 28 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
Oil & Mixed Media on Board, framed. The characters I am currently featuring are based on the children of the house of Savoy, at a period where many ended up fleeing the French revolution (two of them were Marie Antoinette's sisters-in-law), and others were sent out into Europe to make 'good matches' - which basically makes them either refugees or economic migrants. As far as those seeking refuge in Britain at the time " Contemporary estimates varied enormously: one newspaper stated that “the number of French Emigrants in England at this time cannot possibly be less than 40,000,” A large number were clergy or army, but roughly 25% were titled. I wonder whether the problems would be dealt with in the same manner as we currently are if this was true today. The animals featured are endangered or extinct.
Painting:Gesso on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:28 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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I began producing elaborate mixed media pieces while on my long stay in Venice, making use of the city-floor ephemera of discarded museum leaflets and postcards. Incorporating ‘scraps’ of the past, sourced from secondhand books and magazines, and the maps I grew up with as the child of an intrepid Geophysicist, I produced a diary of sorts, the alternative reality of a history I invented for myself. I have since developed this way of working, often inspired by current events, creating ‘intricate scenes of social malfunction’, my investigations into ‘the human condition’ through a series of imagined portraits. I studied Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University, spending my final year at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on an extended travel award. Graduating in 1992 I moved back to London, where for a time I slipped into the world of graphic design and illustration, working for Raymond Loewy International, and subsequently becoming Course Tutor at Lambeth College, and later a lecturer at Worcester University. By the late 1990s, emboldened to pursue my painting career by formidable gallery owner and art advocate the late Elizabeth Organ, a series of events shaped my subsequent work, beginning with the move from London to unfeasibly feudal Herefordshire, a turbulent marriage in a ‘Gormenghast’ of a castle, and a subsequent period of exile in Venice. My work has most recently been shown at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol and the Mernier Gallery, London, with an increasing following of private European collectors from Southern France to Croatia. Represented by: The Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff http://www.artwales.com/ Gala Fine Art, Bristol http://galafineart.uk
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