I visited the
Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair 2012 at the Science Museum inwards South Kensington on Thursday. It's an splendid Art Fair as well as good worth a see if yous similar watercolours, pastels, drawings as well as fine fine art prints. You'll come across an extensive hit of operate past times artists both past times as well as present.
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| Sarah Wimperis on the Beside the Wave Stand |
I was at that topographic point via an invite from
Sarah Wimperis (
The Red Shoes) who is representing the
Beside the Wave Gallery. She had roughly of her operate on demonstrate which looked excellent. Interestingly I think her Gallery was the alone i to last sporting the novel QR code. People who purchase the plant tin cause got them away take away away as well as I learned this way that she is also rehanging the stand upwardly every morning!
I also met
David Paskett, President of the
Royal Watercolour Society as well as nosotros had a squeamish chat nigh his recent sense of taking the Entry to the Open Exhibition online. I learned that the artists are instantly selected as well as I'll last aiming to postal service who they are inwards the nigh future.
The Fair has an extensive hit of galleries offering a consummate hit of plant on newspaper from the real traditional to the real contemporary. I noticed that at that topographic point are a lot of good known English linguistic communication landscape artists as well as I was picking out names such as
Edward Bawden,
Alfred Heaton Cooper - who operate I honey (He's the "NC Wyeth" inwards the Heaton Cooper dynasty),
William Russell Flint,
John Piper,
Edward Seago,
Edward Wesson
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| Sim Fine Art stand: Exhibition of operate past times Women War Artists |
Plus an creative mortal who has long been forgotten due inwards business office to a large amount of his operate having been destroyed inwards the nation of war as well as a burn at his widow's home.
Horace Isle of Man Livens's claim to fame was that he was a friend of
Vincent Van Gogh as well as
went to Paris at Vincent's invitation to pigment amongst him. He alos painted the earliest known portrait of Van Gogh.
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| Sim Fine Art stand: Exhibition of operate past times Horace Isle of Man Livens |
I spotted a epitome by
"February" past times Stanley Roy Badmin RWS on the
Babbington Fine Art stand upwardly which took me dorsum to my childhood as well as prompted a postal service nigh it on
The Art of the Landscape - as well as buying the mass which was business office of my childhood!
The
Francis Iles Gallery had a fine display of the operate of
Rowland Hilder (1905-1993) as well as I discovered that they manifestly cause got
the largest stock of his work inwards the UK. Hilder is roughly other landscape creative mortal I retrieve from my childhood.
Ali Yanya is a contemporary artist, represented by
Orme 11, who struck me equally an excellent draughtsman - as well as I wondered why I hadn't seen him before. He studied at the Royal College of Art where he got a Distinction his MA Printmaking. He produces
watercolours and
etchings. He has a real clear as well as sophisticated (but simple) manner as well as to me he looked real much similar somebody who should last applying for membership of the
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. I also idea his operate was a full cope - now's the fourth dimension to purchase folks!
So - that's a flavor of the fine art fair. I had a gratis ticket simply a ticket unremarkably costs £15 if yous hold off as well as purchase a ticket on the door. I think it's definitely worth a visit.
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