Brian Sinfield Art Gallery
Exhibition of New Paintings by Anne-Marie Butlin
Anne-Marie Butlin 19 November 2022 - 3 December 2022
Anne-Marie has been painting and exhibiting for 30 years since studying Fine Art at Loughborough College of Art and Middlesex University. She lives in North London and paints full-time from her garden studio.
In this exhibition of new paintings Anne-Marie has concentrated on two different aspects of her continued passion for flowers and English gardens. Though her paintings are complex they are never overworked, conveying strong structure at the same time capturing the sense of calm that flowers give us.
Whether they are her small paintings of freshly picked flowers which she has arranged in vases, or her larger paintings which draw us closely into the English countryside borders and hedgerows, they both combine traditional technical skill with modern sensibility. If you look deeply into the ‘Jewel Garden’ you will see an abstraction in the foreground that only serves to heighten the overall beauty of this rich colourful painting, a characteristic of her style, which is evident in a number of the larger works. In the small still life paintings, the picked flowers are given an importance all of their own against a calm background echoed only by their own shadow.
This will be Anne-Marie’s second solo show with the gallery, and we hope you enjoy it.
Painting illustrated: Blue Iris | oil on canvas | 80 x 80 cm
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Featured
Fred Cuming RA (1930 - 2022)
Fred Cuming RA is considered one of the finest landscape painters of his generation. Obsessed with capturing colour and light, Cuming’s work expresses a dreamlike quality which transports the reader into his evocative world.
Cuming (1930 - 2022) studied at Sidcup School of Art from 1945 to 1949 and, having completed his National Service, went on to study at the Royal College of Art from 1951 to 1955, where he gained a Rome Scholarship and an Abbey Minor Scholarship. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1974 and a member of the New English Art Club and an Associate of the Royal College of Art. His first solo show was held in 1978 in London, and since that time he exhibited regularly in solo shows throughout the UK and more recently in the United States. His work has also been included in many group exhibitions since 1953. In 2001 he was given the honour of being the featured artist in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, with an entire gallery within the show dedicated to his work.
He was the winner of many awards including the Grand Prix Fine Art (1977), the Royal Academy’s House & Garden Award and the Sir Brinsley Ford Prize (New English Art Club, 1986). His work is held in private collections throughout the world.and in 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent at Canterbury. His work is represented in private and corporate collections in fifteen countries and we were honoured to be one of the galleries to represent him.
Image illustrated: Bonfire ([private collection) | oil on board | 98 x 118 cm (plus frame).
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Christmas Exhibition
Christmas Exhibition
Exhibition: 3 - 31 December
If your mind feels like a blank canvas when it comes to choosing that special Christmas gift then let us inspire you with our collection of paintings by artists the gallery represents.
The exhibition will be available to view from 3rd December and will continue to run until 31st December. A digital catalgoue will be available soon.
Painting shown here by Gavin Watson: Pugmalion | oil on board | 18 x 24 cm
Gavin lives and works in rural Northumberland,. His paintings explore the relationship between human and animal, and the internal and external worlds we share.
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