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  • Artist Steven Townsend – releases ‘Truffle’ black labrador bitch

    Better late than never again, we now have a quick press release about Steven Townsend latest painting, yes it is a limited edition print from a painting and not a photo!


    (‘Truffle’ by Steven Townsend)

    “This is Steven’s latest print called Truffle. Truffle is the first bitch that Steven has ever painted, she is 10 years old and a real character but more importantly she looks like everyone’s idea of a black Labrador.

    Truffle lives with her owner Karen Powell in Gosforth in the beautiful Lake District, UK. In her younger days Truffle was a working dog but now is a pet and the only dog to live in Karen’s home.

    The dog is pictured on it owns backdoor, the beautiful banks of Wast Water. It is quite a while since Steven painted a dog in a landscape and it is proving to be another ‘Master Of The Hills’ (another of Steve’s classic dog paintings) as far as Steven’s collectors are concerned.”


    (‘Masters Of The Hills’ by Steven Townsend)

    thank you

    James

    Useful links:

    Lake District
    Gosforth, Lake District
    Wast Water, Lake District

  • Bob Dylan – Huge Announcement, new exclusive Limited Edition prints 2009

    Those great guys at Chelmer Fine Art gallery have made a big announcement re: the legendary Bob Dylan and some special New artwork he will be releasing.

    “www.chelmerfineart.com is pleased to invite you to attend the launch of the new Bob Dylan Collection 2009 in the gallery & online on Saturday 25th July 2009”

    Rolf Harris

    This is actual artwork painted by Bob Dylan and produced into signed limited edition format, true collector’s items!

    Jump on their website and take a look on the 25th of July: Bob Dylan’s New Releases 2009

    thank you

    John

    Useful links:
    www.bobdylan.com
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
    www.myspace.com/bobdylan

  • Artist Caroline Shotton – Are these cows upset? ‘blue’ even?

    This is the latest Caroline Shotton release ‘Blue Moon’ box canvas.

    Around the whole outline of the moon itself are hand placed, jewels which is a lovely finishing touch to this wonderfully vibrant piece.

    Before this piece came out my favourite colour for a Shotton background was red but now, with the very deep blue, I think this is now the clear winner.

    There is some hidden depth to this painting, the detail in the top half of the sky and the craters in the moon. It is a tribute to Caroline that she makes these paintings look so ridiculously simple but in fact there is a strong artistic intelligence behind them.

    Blue moon but very happy cows!

    thanks

    Emily

  • Artist Caroline Shotton’s pictures lie, cows do not!

    We wanted to make the point that sometimes the images that are press released (in advance of the item arriving in the gallery) don’t do the pictures justice and the finished artwork is often much much nicer in person!


    (Press release image ‘Two & A Calf’)

    This was particularly the case when Caroline Shotton released the 4 limited edition box canvas’s
    ‘Moo Too,’
    ‘Two And A Calf,’
    ‘2 Pint 4’
    ‘Meet The Famooly’
    in Autumn last year.

    Above is the press release image for ‘Two & Calf’ by Caroline Shotton. The image looks really quite flat, mostly variation of red and with no embellishments.

    Now let’s looks at some camera images we took of the actual painting:


    (picture we took of ‘Two & A Calf’)

    Take a closer look at the actual ‘jewels’ on the box canvas, on this picture they are yellow and on the other titles in the series they where various colours, I remember one was this amazing shade of purple!


    (notice the stuck on yellow jewels, and stuck on fabric hearts)


    (notice the finish on the white, starting from above the cow’s noses)

    Even the faces of the cows are actually embellished and are raised with actual paint work, this is not a flat off the printer finish but a much more special, lively image that looks like it’s actually come directly out of Caroline’s studio

    thank you

    James

    Useful links
    Cows in art
    Links to more cow art
    Fun Cow clip art