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Helen Layfield BradleySunshine & Shadows. Lake District.Helen Layfield Bradley.Original Oil Impasto. 1965
1965
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Helen Layfield Bradley.
English ( b.1900 - d.1979 ).
Sunshine & Shadows Across the Leven Estuary, Lake District, 1965.
Oil on Board. Signed.
Image size 15.9 inches x 16.9 inches ( 40.5cm x 43cm ).
Frame size 20.1 inches x 21.3 inches ( 51cm x 54cm ).
Available for sale; this original oil painting is by Helen Layfield Bradley and dates from 1965.
The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs).
The painted surface has benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval.
This vintage painting is now in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed with the "fly" motif in the lower left.
Helen Layfield Bradley showed early signs of artistic talent but this was put on hold first for the war and then whilst she brought up her family. Indeed, she did not begin to produce paintings until she was 65 and then did so as a way of showing her granddaughter what life was like when she herself was a child. During the following decade she attained international celebrity and recognition as an artist. In 1979 she was awarded the MBE for services to art, but died shortly before she was due to receive the honour from the Queen.
Mrs Bradley had three exhibitions at the Mercury Gallery in London and one in Los Angeles and was much loved both sides of the Atlantic.
Her paintings typically depict scenes from Edwardian Lancashire with groups of figures, including her family and friends. A familiar figure in many of her paintings was a neighbour, Miss Carter, who wore pink. She gave her name to the first and most famous of four books of her works “And Miss Carter Wore Pink”. Her works are typically signed with a small black fly, as this one is.
Like L.S. Lowry, who was an associate and friend, Mrs Bradley’s figurative works are generally described as “naïve”. However, whilst they both painted many industrial backgrounds Mrs Bradley’s scenes showed people who are well dressed, colorful and happy. Her country scenes depicting figures are idyllic and her rarer landscape scenes show a dreamlike quality and stunning use of color and light. This is such a picture and shows a house where she had stayed, near to her home on the edge of the Lake District. The painting was originally painted as a gift to her hosts.
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The landscape scene depicted is of the estuary of the River Leven in the Lake District, Cumbria, as seen from Lancashire. There are cottages nestling under blue fell mountains and a cloudy sky.
The technique used here is impasto, where paint is laid on the surface very thickly.
- Creator:Helen Layfield Bradley (1900 - 1979)
- Creation Year:1965
- Dimensions:Height: 20.08 in (51 cm)Width: 21.26 in (54 cm)
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- Condition:The painted surface has benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval. This vintage painting is now in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
- Gallery Location:Sutton Poyntz, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU489313837062
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