Pippa Smith

Sardines with Lemon, Original painting, Food art, Seafood, Mediterranean

2024

This contemporary still-life depicts a fresh and vibrant oyster with a slice of lemon on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is r...

This contemporary still-life depicts a two juicy sardines with a slice of lemon on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is ready t...

This contemporary still-life depicts two vibrant and juicy prawns with a lemon wedge on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is re...

This contemporary still-life depicts a ripe artichoke and lemon wedge on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is ready to be hung ...

A 'weighty' study of a catch of mackerel in a box. I have focuses on the texture colour and form of the fish. A textured piece with layers of colour, adding depth and form to the pai...

Sardine Colazione fish painting. Contemporary blue white and green on black gesso painting on wood panel of breakfast sardines, Italy, 2019. Dimensio...

FISH ON A PLATE Acrylic on Canvas Size: 43.5 x 60.5cm (including frame) A fun and playful painting on canvas, executed in a modernist style, framed and ready to hang. Featuring thr...

When you look at this painting "Sprats" by Dutch artist Sasja Wagenaar (1959) from a distance you see a perfectly painted image, but up close a flowing movement of the paint streaks is visible. Sasja Wagenaar has a unique way of applying shadow and light effects in her paintings. The strong reflection on the dark background is a reference to the camera obscura. This dark room was used since the 16th century by Old Masters (such as Vermeer, as is presumed) to create a detailed reflection of an object. Sasja Wagenaar is inspired by our classic masters from the seventeenth century, a flourishing period in Dutch painting. The century in which new continents, markets and arts were discovered. At that time in the Netherlands it was a real fad to collect chinoiserie. Originally porcelain, but also Dutch pottery, also known as Delft blue, inspired by Chinese and especially by Japanese bowls and vases. To quote Sasja Wagenaar: ‘Every platter, every bowl is already so much in itself. They were made with great care through hundreds of hands before they ended up here. Their character must be respected in composing the story that forms a still life. They are as alive as the blossom branches and I try to let them speak together. Slowly the image is created’. Although rooted in the 17th century Dutch tradition, her work shows her very own signature and is contemporary. As a true Modern Dutch Master...