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Amanda Watt
Pop Art Painting Bright Vibrant Colors Artist Painted Frame Flowers in Vase

c.1990's

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This is a bright, vibrant, colorful Amanda Watt original acrylic painting on paper depicting a patio scene with a floral vase on round table. Signed to lower left. Mounted in a purple and gold stripe painted wooden frame with mat behind acrylic screen. Measures 30 1/4" height x 24 1/4" width (76.8cm x 61.5cm). Measures approx. 44 5/8" height x 36 5/8" width (113.3cm x 93cm) overall including artist painted frame. A self-confessed ‘Fusionist’, Amanda pays homage to the past: the multiple perspectives of cubism; the bright energy of expressionism and the simplicity of primitivism, all allowing her to show the true integrity of painting. Her every-day world and that of fantasy collide to create bright and joyful images based on the clarity and simplicity of abstract forms. Amanda Watt was born in Northern Ireland in 1960. Moving around a lot as a child between towns and countryside, drawing remained the one constant in her life. She graduated with a BA Hons from the Belfast College of Art and Design in 1982, and immediately left for the bustling London art scene. After three years, she was given an opportunity by one of her collectors to move to Los Angeles, where she spent the next twenty years building a successful career as an artist. Amanda’s work was well-known on the California art scene, with annual exhibitions spanning over ten years at Timothy Yarger Fine art in Beverley Hills, as well as Bowles/Sorokko Galleries in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. Her bright, vibrant interior scenes and semi-abstract figurative and landscape paintings became a staple of Californian society, with key collectors including casino mogul Steve Wynn, award-winning film director Barry Levinson and former producer and now successful fashion designer Marla Ginsburg. this work bears similarities to the work of Israeli Dudu Gerstein and shows the influence of fellow British expat artist David Hockney. She was included in shows at a number of London galleries including Cutts Gallery, Steve Bartley Gallery, and Roger Francis Gallery. She worked with master etcher and printmaker Pascal Giraudon. Pascal had moved to LA after working in the South of France with some of the most talented artists of the twentieth century, including Marc Chagall and Salvador Dali.
  • Creator:
    Amanda Watt (1960, Irish)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1990's
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 44.63 in (113.37 cm)Width: 36.63 in (93.05 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. minor wear to frame and acrylic.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3825046151
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