Beauty in the blues
Today is Blue Monday and apparently we're feeling a bit blue. Painters throughout the ages have celebrated the colour blue. There’s no doubt that there’s beauty to be found in the blues - today we pay homage to this hue!
West Ham Station by James Self. Original painting in oil on canvas.
"Walking home on a winter’s day feeling glad to be living in the city." James Self’s luminescent urban reflections seem to be describing a homecoming.
Width: 102 cm / Height: 76 cm
On The Shoulders Of Giants by John Clark. Original painting in oil on canvas.
"Precarious structures reach upwards built from the straining, awkward efforts of the business men. As with all flocks the patterns take on a life of their own that is not explained by the details, or the behavior of the constituents but somehow emerges from them."
Width: 61 cm / Height: 92 cm
Stars at Kielder Dark Sky Space, 2015 by Melanie King
Limited edition photograph (this is 2 of a total edition of 2).
Photograph taken at Kielder Dark Sky Space, in July 2015. I then printed this image as a cyanotype print on Fabriano Accademia paper.
Width: 20 cm / Height: 20 cm
The Silent Cascade I by Eigil Nordstrom. Original painting in oil on canvas.
"Painted from memory, this work plays with the material of paint as it embodies a cascade of light slipping over a step like a viscous liquid."
Width: 57 cm / Height: 100 cm
The Tower Building by Keith Robinson. Original painting in oil on canvas.
Tower block opposite waterloo station, London. "I have always been interested in looking at the common place and the familiar, the places we pass by everyday yet perhaps pass us by, the ever changing look of the 'normal' - this underlies my latest series of work on 'The Tower Block'."
Width: 76 cm / Height: 76 cm
Let's Get Lost In Here by DURA. Original painting in acrylic on canvas.
"Waves and ocean inspired abstract landscape painting in acrylic on canvas."
Width: 92 cm / Height: 61 cm
White Wave (Brim) by Sara Oskarsson. Original painting in mixed media on Belgian canvas.
."the paintings seek to explore both nature’s recurring patterns and random mutations. It alludes to how lasting and beneficial change comes about by slow and small degrees, a principle that seems to be congenial to life in general."
Width: 60 cm / Height: 80 cm
Crossings (SS Antonia) by Stephen Todd. Original painting in mixed media on paper.
"I find inspiration in a number of places including personal history. "Crossings" is a seascape that includes the SS Antonia. It is one of a series of paintings that include merchant ships from the 2nd World War served on by Capt Fall, a great uncle. It is an original mixed media work in gouache, pastel, graphite and ink on structura ground. The work is on Bockingford Watercolour paper (300gm/sq m), white matt surface, acid free. Structura is a paste applied to the surface of the paper to provide some texture as part of the painting process"
Width: 19 cm / Height: 19 cm
Les Mouettes n°.11 by Wayne Sleeth. Original painting in acrylic on stretched canvas.
Width: 20 cm / Height: 20 cm
