Glass Still-life Paintings

"Ocean Canyon" is a saggar-fired porcelain sculpture by Alison Brannen. It measures 13" high by 9" wide by 9" deep, however the sculpture can be arrange...

Wonderful expressionist painting of abstracted flowers in vase by Robert Henry Hurdle, RWA (English, b. 1918), 1970. Signed and dated lower right corner. Presented in rustic frame: Condition: Very good; painting had been glued into frame which is now restored. Image size: 16"H x 12"W. Framed size: 18.50"H x 22.50"W. Robert Henry Hurdle, Royal West of England Academy (RWA) was born in London on 9th August 1918. He first trained at the Richmond School of Art and then after distinguished war service during World War 2 he studied painting at Camberwell School of Art under Sir William Coldstream and was later senior lecturer at the West of England College of Art ( later called Bristol Polytechnic ). He has exhibited widely across the British lsles and most notably in Hong Kong and the South of France. His most recent solo show was at the Art Room at Topsham, Devon in 2013. His work is featured in many public and private collections including Bristol City Art Gallery and the Royal West of England Academy. Selected One Man Exhibits: 1969 Faculty of Fine Art, University College, Swansea. 1977 'Land and Water' City Art Gallery, Bristol 1978 'Land and Water' Pao Sui Loong Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre. 1981 'Reflections on Bristol 1950-81' King Street Gallery, Bristol. 1983 Farnham Maltings, Kiln Gallery, Farnham. 1987 Peter Sands Gallery, Bristol. 1989 Clevedon Bridge Gallery, Bath 1995 'Retrospective' Royal West of England Academy, 1998 'Robert Hurdle at 80' Fedden Gallery, Royal West of England Academy 2003 'Meeting with Tress' New Gallery, Royal West of England Academy 2009 'Selective Retrospective' New Gallery Royal West of England Academy 2012 'Paintings' The Art Room Group Exhibits: 1949-65 London group exhibitions 1950 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. 1959-2015 Royal West of England Academy, Annual Exhibition 1959 Artists of Fame and Promise, Leicester Galleries 1960 New Arts Centre, London 1964 Frost and Reed Galleries, Bristol 1966 William Ware Gallery, London 1974 Courages Coronation Exhibition, City Art Gallery, Bristol. 'Accent on Colour', The Albany Gallery, Cardiff. 1976 Westward TV Exhibitions, Plymouth. 1978 Frost and Reed Galleries, Bristol. New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham. 1980 'Art in the making', King Street Gallery, Bristol and the City Art Gallery, Bath. 1985 '3 West Country Painters' Hunstrete House, Near Bath. 1988 'Recent paintings' Peter Sands Gallery, Bristol. Anthony Rossiter and Robert Hurdle. 2003 Innocent Fine Art, Bristol. 2004 'Western Approaches' Six members of the Royal West of England Academy: Derek Balmer, John Huggins, Robert Hurdle, Neil Murison...

"Ghianda" is a nostalgic and tactile artwork from Elizabeth Art Candy’s Fake Gum’s series, where small, familiar objects are transformed into sculptural treasures. Using hand-modeled...

White, yellow and red asters. 1964. Oil on canvas, board, 46x58 cm Vimba Voldemars ( 1904 St. Petersburg – 1985 Riga, Latvia) He began his artistic education at the St Petersburg...

"Spotted Blue Moon Jar" is a saggar-fired porcelain vessel by Alison Brannen. It measures 18" high by 15" wide. Inspired by her journeys sailing the Atl...

"Clay connects me to the earth, the smell, the feel, the tactility of the material. I surrender to it and give it presence; it gives me form. Following its own frequency, clay dictat...

Signed lower left, 'Hortense M. Gordon' for Hortense Crompton Mattice Gordon (Canadian, 1886-1961) and dated 1949. Previously with: Dominion Gallery of Montreal (stamp, verso). Photo courtesy of Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Hamilton artist Hortense Crompton Mattice Gordon was one of Canada’s earliest non-representational painters, embracing abstraction in the 1930s. She was also an active member of Canada's first English-speaking abstract group, Painters Eleven. A scholarship recipient, Hortense Mattice first attended the Hamilton Art School and, subsequently, moved to Chatham, Ontario. Initially focusing on porcelain painting, Mattice quickly began building a portfolio of oils and, from 1908, was exhibiting both her porcelain and landscapes at what is now the Chatham Cultural Centre (1908) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (1909). During this time, Mattice frequently traveled to the United States and, in 1915, visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she would have seen early works by important modernists including Picasso and Matisse. She started her teaching career in Chatham but, having received a job offer from the artist John Sloan Gordon, returned to Hamilton to teach at the Hamilton Art School in 1918. The two artists married in 1920. In 1922, Gordon and her husband took a study trip to France and, inspired by the fervent of Modernist ideas in Paris, expanded her own approaches to art, developing an increasingly soft, loose paint handling style. It was not until the 1930’s, after a few more trips to France and her discovery of Piet Mondrian’s work, that elements of abstraction began to appear in Gordon’s work. After the death of her husband in 1940, Gordon attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art and studied with Hans Hoffmann (1941-1945) whose influence and friendship pushed her to explore non-objective painting. After her training with Hofmann and in Cranbrook, Gordon began to exhibit regularly and with success in both Canada and the United States including at the Riverside Museum (New York, 1947), Creative Gallery (New York, 1952), in Ann Arbor (Michigan, 1952), Phillips Gallery (Detroit, 1952), the Flint Institute of Arts (Michigan, 1952), Mount Allison University (New Brunswick, 1952), the Galerie Agnes Lefort in Montréal and Art Gallery of Hamilton (retrospective, 1960). She was a member of the Contemporary Artists of Hamilton (honorary president in 1948), the Ontario Society of Artists, the Hamilton Women...

This vibrant work by noted 20th century American artist, Joel Durand, employs a bold palette and sophisticated approach in this dramatic and abstracted sti...

Whimsical abstracted textural still life with three daises and other objects floating through an ambiguous orange space by Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016). From a collecti...

Still Life Painting of Two Plants on an Orange Table by Fauvist British Artist, Steve Capper Art measures 20 x 28 inches Frame measures 25.5 x 33.5 inches Presented in a high quality black wooden moulding Steve Capper attended Manchester’s High School of Art in 1955, the Manchester College of Art in 1962 and Bretton Hall College in 1965. He taught painting for thirty years as head of a large art faculty in an Oldham comprehensive school, before taking early retirement in 1996 to concentrate on producing his own work. Capper produces on-the-spot sketches which are then taken into his studio where he re-works them into a painting. Both his landscapes and his still-life paintings reflect the influences of the cubists and the fauves. The work of Picasso, Braque and Matisse are amongst his major influences. Capper still lives and works near Oldham, in the Pennines...

Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has b...

Daniel Fiorda in this new series of sculptures, continues in many ways the themes that have infused his previous work. For the last several years, Fiorda has dealt with technology, obsolescence, with the trail of discarded tech that humanity leaves behind and what it says about us. The new work takes this thematic one step further. These new wall pieces feature barely concealed found objects, almost fully engulfed by concrete, and yet still eerily discernible: industrial gears, computer keyboards, objects that evoke industrial post-digital eras. This piece is a set of 3 artworks that showcases a video editing keyboard on a white background, embedded in resin and they can be arranged for display in a variety of layouts. They come ready to hang with hanging hardware and they are signed by the artist on verso. Art measures 7 x 7 x 1.75 in (each) The overall sense is dystopian rather than apocalyptic. In Fiorda’s previous work, found objects were displayed as if unearthed from a bed of clay by a tacit anthropologist, perhaps decades into the future. A typewriter would be partially buried by dry soil and weathered by the passing of time. The underlying narrative was that of a future civilization unearthing the objects left by ours. Destruction or extinction was implied. In the new work, the obsolete technology is not found but rather engulfed by a new technology. Concrete, as a material and as a technology, has the capabilities to fully encase and envelope. In Fiorda’s new work, uniformity and the appropriation of old/new technology into new structures suggests a historical and technological challenge right around the corner, mirroring the ones in our recent past: the digital age fully replacing the analog world. These astounding sculptures, with embedded objects, are here to examine closely, and make connections between theme, material, and shape. Daniel Fiorda was born in 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Of Italian ancestry, his lineage includes a grandfather highly respected as a wood craftsman, also his father was a craftsman in addition to being a musician and poet. Because a privileged life was not his, there was no university for Fiorda. In the Old World tradition of passing on knowledge from parent to child, he learned about machinery form his father, who recognized his son's talent and encouraged it. With some private tutoring, he began sculpting in high school using found objects. The press reviews of his first exhibit, at age 20, stated that Fiorda had a definite “poetic feeling”. With this encouragement, he continued to pursue his art. After leaving Argentina, he arrived in Miami Beach via a circuitous route and set up his studio in the South Florida Art Center. He has exhibited widely throughout the US including the OK Harris Gallery, Allan Stone Gallery in New York as well as the Heriard Cimino Gallery in New Orleans, Lélia Mordoch Gallery in Paris France and Lilac Gallery in New York City. Daniel was one of the winners in the 7th Annual Sculptures Competition (2003) held at Washburn University in Topeka , Kansas. Selected on the inaugural 2006 Palm Beach International Sculpture Biennale, and exhibited for the 3rd time in Sculpture Key West. He is an alumni Artist of ArtCenter/South Florida. Two Pieces from his “Convertible Couch projects...