Therese James

Splashing Through A Happy Day: Contemporary Figurative painting

2014

A Lands Five Ornaments, Health, Wealth, Fertility, Joy and Safety Oil, gold leaf on arches paper with a crackled varnish finish Image 5" x 7" Mounted 10" x 12" signed and dated low...

The artists reflection on her childhood days. Early autumn and picking apples. Acrlic on canvas. Unframed 18" x 14" 2022

Traditions are important in Wales. This painting from Therese takes a peek at the Sunday morning outing to chapel. Wearing their Sunday best the villagers head out and catch up on al...

Therese James and her ever popular happy school paintings. Reflecting a happy life on the Atlantic coast of Wales. A simple life which most of us dream of. Joyous Acrylic paint on a...

The artists reflection on her childhood days. Catching the last of the summers warmth on the beach. Acrylic on canvas. Unframed 16" x 12" 2022

Therese painted this piece in response to an experience she had whilst visiting the 6th century  St Tudno's Church on the Great Orme. She came across it by accident and found it very...

Acrylic paint on canvas Signed and entitled by the artist

Trucks in the City by African American, Folk, Self-Taught, Florida, Outsider Art Purvis Young Urban Young was an American artist from Miami....

Large Naïve acrylic on board attributed to a French artist named Le Bris as the work was bought with another painting signed by the artist. The painting is presented in a gilt wooden baton frame. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. The characteristics of naïve art have a challenging relationship to the formal qualities of painting, especially as they tend not to respect the three rules of the perspective (such as defined by the Progressive Painters of the Renaissance): 1. Decrease of the size of objects proportionally with distance, 2. Muting of colours with distance, 3. Decrease of the precision of details with distance. The results are: Effects of perspective are geometrically erroneous (distinctive aspect of the works, like the drawing of a child...

Colorful Faux Naive Style Cityscape Painting, Portrait of the Artist 'Self Portrait' painted by Darshan Russell in 1997 Oil on canvas, 21.5 x 24 inches framed with thin wood strippin...

Alice and Martin Provensen were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together. In 1984, the won the Caldecott for The Glorious Flight, the story of aviator Louis Blériot...