Georgia Siriaco

American abstract artist Giorgia Siriaco, contemporary mixed media square work

2015

Adrian Heath (British, 1920 - 1992) Golden Brown Mixed media signed ‘Heath 88’ (lower right) 73 x 54 cm. Adrian Heath (1920–1992) was a 20th-century British painter. Heath was born in Burma and attended Bryanston School in Dorset, southern England. In 1938, he studied art under Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn. In 1939 and 1945–47, he attended the Slade School of Art. He served in the RAF as a tail gunner in Lancaster bombers in World War II, but spent almost the entire war as a prisoner of war at Stalag 383. During this period he became friends with and taught fellow POW Terry Frost to paint. In 1949 and 1951, he visited St Ives, Cornwall, where he met Ben Nicholson. In the early 1950s, he was also associated with Victor Pasmore and Anthony Hill. As such he became the main link between the emerging St Ives School and British Constructivism. He was also influenced by D'Arcy Thompson. In 1953 Heath published 'Abstract Painting: its Origins and Meaning' a slim but perceptive volume appraising the development of abstraction by the early moderns. He exhibited at the Musée Carcassonne in 1948, and at the Redfern Gallery...

Sandra Blow (British, 1925 – 2006) A Sandy abstract Signed with atelier stamp ‘Sandra Blow estate, St. Ives’ (lower left) Mixed media including sand 9.3/4 x 6.3/8in. (24.8 x 16.1 cm.)

Terry Durham (British, 1936 – 2013) Golden Rocket Morning Acrylic and Mixed media Signed and dated ‘DURHAM.72.’ (lower left) 18 x 23.3/4 in. (45.8 x 60.3 cm.) The orange composition shows a rocket but there are heavy resemblances to a fish. Other foliate motifs, squares, circles and references to the moon and clouds...

Giorgia Siriaco (American, 21st Century) Square lines Mixed media on board Signed and dated `Georgia Siriaco 2015’ (on the reverse) 9.1/2 x 9.1/2 in. (...

Barcelona native artist Raul de la Torre's vibrant abstract mixed media artworks pay homage to textiles. De La Torre allows the materials to take over during the process and collabor...