Kay Hartung

"Microbial Gathering 1", microscopic, orange, pink, purple, pastel drawing

2008

Kay Hartung’s “Macrovision 6” is a 19.5 x 25 inch pastel drawing done on black Canson Mi Teintes paper. In blues and pinks on a background of pale yellow green, the organic shapes fo...

Kay Hartung’s “Macrovision 7” is a 19.5 x 25 inch pastel drawing done on black Canson Mi Teintes paper. In blues, greens and purples on a background of pale yellow the shapes form a ...

Kay Hartung’s “Macroblast 10” is a 19.5 x 25 inch pastel drawing done on black Canson Mi Teintes paper. In blues and greens this drawing is beautifully detailed with both broad area ...

Kay Hartung’s “Macroaction 13” is a 19.5 x 25 inch pastel drawing done on black Canson Mi Teintes paper. In blues, red, green, grey and white this drawing is beautifully detailed wit...

Kay Hartung’s “Macroblast 7” is a 19.5 x 25 inch pastel drawing done on black Canson Mi Teintes paper. In pinks, oranges and purples this drawing is beautifully detailed with both br...

Kay Hartung’s “Macrovision 8” is a 19.5 x 25 inch pastel drawing done on black Canson Mi Teintes paper. In blue, orange and red on a background of greenish yellow, the shapes form a ...

Pastel on Paper

Anthony Benjamin, 'Untitled', watercolour and pastel on paper, image size 16.5cm x 23cm, framed size, 27.5cm x 33.75cm, signed and dated 2000 Provenance: From the Artist Estate A Gallery Certificate accompanies the painting Anthony Benjamin was a 20th Century abstract precisionist artist. Born in London in 1931 he was active throughout the second half of the 20th century. Experimental, hugely talented and obsessive, Benjamin moved fluidly between mediums and refused to be tied to any practise. He trained with the best, amongst others with Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and was recognised by the Royal Society of the Arts, his pier group and leading Galleries and Institutions who displayed and collected his work. Anthony Benjamin was also daring. At at time when the art-world was fixated with the St Ives Group of artists, Benjamin, who was part of this group, chose to leave. Although adept at making St Ives abstractionism it did not sit naturally with him. He did not see value in its art. Instead he sought to replicate abstraction in nature and was inspired by others who had also mastered this craft such as the Composer Brian Eno, who he later collaborated with and Gnawa musicians of Morocco. A trained engineering draughtsmanship, Benjamins formally perfect artworks are always infused with an air of technical experimentation and a poetic response to the natural world. The artist was inspired by pattern and obsessed with process. He was a sculptor, printmaker, painter, draughtsman and used collage, canvas, brass, perspex, steel, paper and anything that inspired him. Throughout his career, Benjamin made monumental paintings. In the studio he thought, pondered and considered every move. It was during these periods of contemplation that he would make warm up paintings that were beautifully loose and almost the antithesis in process to his large works. However it was in these smaller watercolour paintings...

Tecnica mista con acetato su carta del maestro della Pittura Analitica Vincenzo Cecchini, dalla serie "Fototracce". L'opera è firmata e datata sul fronte. Opera con certificato di a...

Drawn from her imagination, Paula Elliott’s modern abstract works of art depict mysterious objects. In her works pastel has become the principal medium c...

Drawn from her imagination, Paula Elliott’s modern abstract works of art depict mysterious objects. In her works pastel has become the principal medium c...

Drawn from her imagination, Paula Elliott’s modern abstract works of art depict mysterious objects. In her works pastel has become the principal medium c...