Category: Artists

Artists

  • 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

  • Sarah Jane Szikora – Spring 2009 New Releases – Comment 2

    Finally, we managed to get round to the final part of the Press Release that came with Sarah’s spring releases, hopefully we will be a bit quicker come the next releases due in September 2009 and I have had word they will be amazing!


    (‘The Merry Widdow’)

    “In a piece in joyous celebration of the end of an era, ‘Merry Widow’ has an old style musical feel with a chorus line of jelly babies and shows the absolute freedom Sarah-Jane now has after 13 years of being published by other people, to paint and publish her own limited editions prints.


    (‘Sweet Music’)

    This fresh start inspired Sarah-Jane Szikora to paint 3 wonderfully happy paintings. In ‘Sweet Music’ we view the artist conducting her own choir of gingerbread men, singing her song 🙂 and even though they maybe playing out of tune a little, it’s clearly music to Sarah’s ears!


    (‘UFO – Unidentified Fizzing Object’)

    What do jelly babies do behind closed doors? Well ‘Unidentified fizzing Objects’ playfully shows the secret double life of some of the nations favourite sweets and manages to capture our hearts at the same time.


    (‘The Makeover’)

    And last but not least there is ‘The Makeover.’ (which has proved to be the most popular piece – Emily) Sarah-Jane’s mischievous sense of humour, at a gloomy economic time, brings a welcome smile back to your face. In an art business that takes itself very seriously, gingerbread men in their underpants is just what the doctor ordered!”

    thanks

    Emily

  • Artist Rolf Harris – Playing tennis at ‘Wimbledon Legends’ this year?

    Well not quite but Rolf did manage to unveil a new piece of work this year at the event entitled: ‘Wimbledon Champions’ and which is now available to own as a limited edition print.

    On the 15th June, a few days before the tournament, Rolf unveiled the piece himself in the presence of Martina Navratilova and Bjorn Borg, players featured in the painting and Britain’s much loved former No.1 Tim Henman.

    In this new work, Rolf pays tribute to 10 of the greatest Wimbledon Champions: Bjorn Borg, Steffi Graf, Billie-Jean King, Rod Laver, Suzanne Lenglen, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras and Venus Williams & of course the man who would go on to win: Roger Federer.

    Again Rolf shows his versatility as an artist, showing he is just as talented with figurative portraits as any other subject matter!

    Useful Links:

    BBC Video of the event & interviews
    SKY News Video of the event & interviews
    7 Quick questions with Rolf

    thank you

    Emily