JAN DELIKAT

Café

2022

"Still Room" (2023) by Keith Garcia Acrylic on wood panel 16 x 20 x 1.5" square Figurative painting depicting an imagined room with windows on each wall that look out onto purple skies and green hills in the distance, overlooking a waterscape. The interior painting features a restful room with a hardwood floor, covered almost entirely by an area rug in a green and gray geometric pattern. Two chairs remain empty but on a nearby side table sits a teapot and cup...

Surrealist contemporary acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. This piece is wonderfully colourful, playful and is typical of his witty sense of humour. Docherty likes to tease us visually and asks questions and presents conundrums to the viewer. Frank McLean Docherty was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1942. He became a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1960 and graduated from the Department of Printed Textiles in 1964. He taught in a secondary school in the East End of Glasgow for two years, thereafter departing to work in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland as a textile designer (Marks & Spencer, Heals and Liberty of London). He was also an illustrator for a range of newspapers and an Art Director of magazines. In 1973, he was appointed Principal Teacher of Art in a Scottish High School and in 1978 was honoured by the Queen when he was appointed Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (R.S.W.) He left education in 1994. Since that time he has developed a vision which is quite unique in Scottish Art. Bank Managers, toucans, lighthouses, penguins, bowler hats, Frank Docherty...