Brian Sinfield Art Gallery
Victoria Webster
The Garden Party 13 July - 31 July 2024
We are delighted to introduce to you ‘The Garden Party’ by Victoria Webster.
In a soft gentle palette, these are intricate flower and garden paintings complex with fine detail and fragile beauty. Her narrative paintings are full of irreverence and playfulness.
‘The Garden Party’ celebrates all things that inhabit a garden. It delights in overlooked relationships, symbiosis and harmony. Nature’s amazing structures, be they insect, mollusc, weed or turnip, are all given a starring role, as they go about their business with a gentle, quiet industry. The gardener’s presence is almost incidental to the main events in the foreground – small things are equal to large. Everything exists in this delicate and inconspicuous world of constant conversations.
Victoria was born and raised in the beautiful city of Chester and went on to study illustration at university, receiving a BA Honours degree. Following her graduation, she enjoyed many years working as an illustrator for Saatchi and Saatchi in New Zealand and Australia. She has also had the privilege of her own range of greetings cards with Woodmansterne. Her intricately detailed paintings are held in private collections around the world.
An old farm in Hertfordshire is now home, where Victoria is surrounded by inspiration through its gardens, wildflower meadows and ponds. It is in a country setting that her imagination can run free; her paintings capture moments in time and the small conversations between insects, birds and figures that occupy the space. Seeking the overlooked and celebrating the virtues of the insignificant, it is as though we are seeing nature’s beauty afresh when we look at her paintings.
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Richard Adams
'None the Wiser'
Best known for his humour-infused paintings of everyday life, Richard takes on a fiction of endless sunshine and joyful leisure, where, coupled with his vivid imagination fairies inhabit comfortably! His humour and fertile imagination seem to know no bounds.
His pastels are composite images in that they relate to no particular place, but the fact that he was brought up amidst the south Cotswolds countryside, Cotswold-like images appear frequently. Nostalgia plays a part and this makes them even harder to resist.
Richard Adams studied illustration at Leicester Polytechnic where he received a BA Hon degree. Having been born in Hampshire his family later moved to the stunning South Cotswold countryside of Wiltshire, a landscape that has had a strong and lasting influence on his work. Following his graduation Adams first moved to London where for many years he produced images for clients such as BP and the Radio Times and since then settled in East Sussex.
Image shown above: Out of the Wall, chalk pastel, 20 x 25 cm (plus frame)
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Annie Rouse
A new collection of work by artist Annie Rouse.
"Annie Rouse clearly has a great love of painting. Her pictures say it all. They chart the passage of time, she says, journeys made, stories told, notes in sketchbooks, scratches on walls and old songs.
There is nothing overworked in these paintings. Instead there is a quirky almost childlike spontaneity, a love of drawing, of texture and the viscosity of oil paint laid on thickly. Most of her paintings are in a large format, better to carry her vision, though in this exhibition there are also some delightful smaller works. Occasionally she moves towards abstract, with blocks of colour. Isolated images within a composition - vases and tea cups, flowers, mugs, oranges and lemons pack her canvasses.
Undoubtedly there are influences, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, the Scottish painter is one, which can be seen in her Iris series, but like all good artists she takes from the best and disregards the rest, putting a stamp on her own work.
Annie studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, foundation and BA degree course where she gained an Hons.Degree in Fine Art Painting. She later decided to refresh her drawing skills, and, after a couple of years, gaining diplomas in life drawing, painting and sculpture. Annie now works daily from her studio at Wimbledon Art Studios, where she has been for many years. She has exhibited widely in Britain and overseas, including many times at the Royal Academy in London, and also at the Mall galleries.
Annie paints whatever subject matter excites her - the subject can also dictate the style in which she paints. Her paintings deal with ethereal moments and passing time almost like fractions of a poem. She continues to experiment with drawing on different surfaces and textures, and uses a variety of materials to build up a working surface, including oil paint, crayons, pencil, and charcoal. Annie loves texture and and uses the viscosity of oil paint to sculpt forms onto her canvas.
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