Brian Sinfield Art Gallery
Elaine Kazimierczuk Coming Soon!
'Long Remembered Meadows' 11 May - 25 May 2024
We are deligthed to introduce to you 'Long Remembered Meadows' by Elaine Kazimierczuk.
This new exhibition features approximately 30 new artworks and opens on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May.
Join us for a glass of champagne and meet the artist, who will be present from 11am - 3pm. on the Saturday.
Elaine’s unmistakable works present us with bold highly original interpretations of the natural world. Her landscape paintings, though semi-abstract, are personal accounts of what she encounters, realised through a distinctive vocabulary of non-figurative shapes and imaginative gestures.
This recent series of meadow paintings has emerged from visits across the UK taking Elaine to special places where wildflower-rich pastures have remained undisturbed for hundreds of years. Elaine is a keen supporter of initiatives that manage and support fragile ecosystems. Besides our much-depleted native meadows, she has represented several of the famous ‘Coronation Meadows’. Sixty of these meadows were created through a scheme begun in 2012 by then Prince Charles, to celebrate sixty years reign of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. To date there are now ninety of these sites, managed by the charity Plantlife, with King Charles III still as their patron. One of these sites, Hyde Mill, is a donor site which provides green hay used to seed new sites being regenerated.
Besides making sketches and photographs, Elaine often joins groups of ecologists and botanists carrying out activities such as monitoring species like butterfly orchids and snakes head fritillaries. These close encounters enrich and inform her meadow paintings.
Elaine’s aim is to spark joy in her representation of nature’s intricate assembly of wild beauty. She expresses her emotions through the act of painting, bringing her presence to the work, with spontaneous colourful loose brushstrokes and concentrated detail.
The scale of her paintings varies from small intimate pieces to large scale canvases, including diptychs and triptychs. The larger works are especially immersive, allowing the viewer to wander leisurely over the scene and then alight on an area busy with detail before moving off to some other part of the work.
Elaine is well known for her rich with high colour landscape paintings, addressing the vibrancy of the natural environment and her unique style is inventive, portraying an obvious delight in the living world, making her work now easily recognisable and collectable.
To view all available work by Elaine please click here
To view the digital catalogue please click here
Image shown here: Hyde Mill with Ox-Eye Daisies | oil on canvas | 76 x 97 cm
Springtime Exhibition Currently Showing
Springtime Exhibition
Our 'Springtime' Exhibition is currently showing and features paintings by gallery artists and introducing Em Isaacson.
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Spring brings an end to the enduring darkness of past months, our days are getting longer, flowers bloom and the birds sing. The world comes to life once more and the warmer weather allows us to get out and visit galleries!
With the help of our talented artists, we'd like to celebrate Springtime with you in all of its glory.
Artists exhibiting:-
James Kerr | Brian Sinfield Art Gallery
The exhbition will continue to run until 7th May, and we hope it will lift your spirits.
Painting shown here: Em Isaacson | Young Mother and Child | pastel on paper | 56 x 44 cm
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James Kerr
New Work Just In
In the 1980’s James spent ten years as a decorative painter creating the successful partnership Kerr & Erskine and his clients included many of London’s best interior designers. Although not formally trained, this is where he learnt his craft, to understand the use of colour, paint & materials, and has painted ever since.
James explains: “I have, over the years, built an enviable reputation for gutsy abstracted work. To quote the illustrator and commentator Ralph Steadman: ‘The paint itself is also an object – it is subject to its own motivation, rules and dynamic which the artist must overcome, ignore or amplify’. This in so many ways expresses so much the ‘why and what’ I paint. An admirer of many of the great 20th century masters from Cezanne onwards, it is the likes of William Scott, Paul Feiler, PatrickIn the 1980’s James spent ten years as a decorative painter creating the successful partnership Kerr & Erskine and his clients included many of London’s best interior designers. Although not formally trained, this is where he learnt his craft, to understand the use of colour, paint & materials, and has painted ever since.
James paints in oil on board and canvas, working occasionally from pencil sketches. His studio is based in Warwickshire.Heron and Roger Hilton that have had the greatest influence. More recently I have fallen under the spell of painter Nicolas de Staël, something which is becoming evident in my more recent work.”
Painting shown here: Paysage de Provence | oil on board | 30 x 40 cm
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