Simplistic in structure, Anthony Murphy’s paintings allow the two-dimensional canvas to dominate the forms of the composition, reflecting an exploration of space. With a strong tonal palette, the artist chooses an array of subjects from townscapes to still life to people engaging in everyday activity.
Anthony mainly paints in oil and pastel and is known predominantly for his French and Irish scenes. His colourful Gauginesque paintings have become highly desirable.
The artist explains: “I paint with my right hemisphere. It cannot speak or use words in any way. It is humble and silent. When I am asked about my painting my left hemisphere blurts out all kinds of nonsense trying to answer for the right. But the left hemisphere knows nothing and makes it all up fuelled by vanity.
The right is just still (hardly perceptible) promptings of calm. I like its company and therefore painting.“
We are excited to be showing this recent group of abstract works for Felice Hodges.
Whatever new subject Felice explores, we are again given the opportunity to be drawn into each canvas with an open mind. Without an obvious narrative, her use of colour, textures and multi-layers of paint in combination with the motifs, allows us to engage with the work in a very personal way.
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Elsa Taylor is a colourist; her flower pieces are more celebrations of colour and design than depictions of flowers. Her landscapes of layered earth colours, delicious harmony of umbers and siennas are the artist’s emotional responses to landscape, and that is what is important. Any artist beginning a painting embarks on an adventure. Elsa works at the surface of her canvas with saturated colour, exploring the shapes and textures that emerge in an attempt to capture the character of the subject. At times semi-abstract merges with abstract. Nothing much of detail here, but strong imagery and colour.
Undoubtedly Elsa Taylor is one of the finest colourists working in England today.
“What is art? A big question. The Victorian artist James Holland was under no illusions. “It is, or ought to be, the object of all art to produce as near a likeness to nature, in every respect as the instrument or materials employed will admit to.” In other words, detail, accuracy, and finish. Constable’s buyers demanded this, yet it was his six foot sketches that today spark our interest. In that respect Constable was ahead of his time. But it was Turner who painted works of the heart and mind, dramatising his subjects. Gone was the emphasis on detail, it was the emotional response to a subject that was all important. Turner had bucked the trend.” the late Brian Sinfield
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Image shown here and just in, Blue Pot with Daisy, oil on linen 40 x 40 cm
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About The Brian Sinfield Gallery
The Brian Sinfield Gallery was founded in 1972 by Brian Sinfield and is one of the most prestigious exhibition spaces outside London for contemporary painting and one of the longest established galleries in the Cotswolds.
We specialise in mainly 21st Century, traditional and semi-abstract work by mainly British artists, and also hold a select group of sculpture, including bronze. Whether working with widely acclaimed artists or emerging talent, our focus is on depth, tone and originality. Painters we represent include Saied Dai RP NEAC, Charlotte Sorapure NEAC, Andrew Hemingway, Dr PJ Crook MBE RWA MAFA FRSA, Antony Williams NEAC RP RS, Elsa Taylor, Peter Brown NEAC, Robbie Wraith RP, Richard Adams and Vanessa Cooper to name a few. We offer an exciting exhibition programme each year with a mix of solo and group shows, details of which can be found here in our website.
The gallery is open from Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm (Sunday and Monday by appointment).
The Brian Sinfield Gallery
127 The Hill
Burford
Oxon OX18 4RE
gallery@briansinfield.com
