Brian Sinfield Art Gallery
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Paul Robinson
Humour is a powerful emotion and it is this that often strikes you first about Paul Robinson's paintings, and then it is texture and colour. There appears to be no subject that fails to light the spark of inspiration that sets his paint brush racing. But there is another vital ingredient, one that he shares with that other observer of people, Helen Bradley, and of course Lowry, and that is narrative - each picture tells a story, a cameo of the life of ordinary people going about their daily lives, windblown, snowbound or drenched by a downpour with handbags flapping. In a way there is a timelessness about them, though having said this there are undeniably echoes here of the 1950s.
Paul was born in Penrith, Cumbria in 1959 and studied Fine Art at Carlisle College of Art. After moving to London he became a successful illustrator working for many well-known publications. The artist's move from London to Norfolk in 1999 saw a dramatic change in his work as he discovered a whole new world of country towns, green hillsides, stormy seas and lots of space, a complete contrast to the cityscapes of London. His style is instantly recognisable and his paintings are becoming more and more collectable.
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Featured Artist
Elaine Kazimierczuk
"I paint landscapes mainly – not broad sweeping moorlands with acres of moody sky, but more intimate places – gardens, hedgerows, meadows and woodland. My connection to the natural world is the legacy of nature walks as a child – so my work, when it comes down to it, is about my personal experiences. Because painting is personal; in my work I offer you my response to the entropy of the natural environment in all its untidiness and brash self-adornment, that ‘assemblage of wild beauty’ - a phrase a critic once used to describe my work – I like that expression, it neatly describes the intended effect.
In larger pieces I’m trying to create an immersive experience – one where you’re drowned in the image and can’t take the whole thing in at once – one where you can have a close encounter with work and experience the paint surface, the brush strokes and scratches, the marks and textures; for this, size matters. I often make multi-paneled pieces, fragmenting the landscape into a series of ‘windows’, because in that way, I can frame the images, as I see them."
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Exhibition
Vanessa Cooper 8 - 22 July 2018
Wow! Once again Vanessa Cooper lets her imagination run riot - escaping escargot, birds nesting in teapots,picnicking dogs and an abundance of spring flowers.
These are wonderfully joyful, humorous paintings, bursting with colour and English eccentricity, almost as if she sees things through the eyes of a child. She paints what she loves, family life, her menagerie of animals, trees in blossom, and virtually anything else that appeals. Her large canvas 'The Birds and The Bees' is a triumph of joie de vivre, which rather sets the tone for the whole exhibition 'Bonhomie'.
Her work is bold, uncompromising and full of life, and that has never changed since her teenage years when she first took up painting. She was born and grew up in Hampshire and studied at Portsmouth University. Since 1987, when she first began exhibiting, she has built a reputation as a serious and talented artist with a deep love of colour and a unique and now very recognisable style.
Her exhibition is a celebration of spring and summer, of lazy days and picnics, of dozing dogs and apple blossom, and ultimately of colour. We do hope you enjoy it.
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