Joanna Irvin

Greenwich Window I

c.2010

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘Solstice Sun’ 2019 Linocut on paper 15.0 x 10.0 cm (6 x 4 in.) Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical, rather than lyrical or painterly, approach. This probably puts my observational paint – by – numbers pictures at a creative and expressive disadvantage. But it doers prove conducive to a structural or compositional kind of drawing over which are applied layers of oil paint to deliver idiosyncratic textural and atmospheric effects. Furthermore, a Ben Nicholson – inspired dichotomy between foreground rooftops or architecture and a naturalistic marine or landscape background makes a chosen plastic and temperamental approach apt. So when in 2004 I was inspired by the much loved master relief printmaker John Liddell 1925-2005) to try my hand at linocut I found a process ideally suited to my mechanical bent it has been a love affair ever since. The workshop he founded in 1991 Poole Printmakers is a safe haven, an intimate co-operative near Poole Quay, and some of the most scenic terrain in Britain. It is also an area where my art career started in 1978 and inspired my early book Art in Poole and Dorset, published by Poole Historical Trust, 1987. Many blissful and absorbing hours over the last 13 years have yielded a large body of linocut prints in which I exercise those mechanical and reproductive qualities proper to the medium. Peter Davies...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘The Godrevy Window’ 2010 Linocut 3/8 20.5 x 30.5 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechan...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘Busby 11’ 2009 Linocut A/P 15.5 x 10.0 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical, rather...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) Wing and Prayer 2013 Linocut 25/50 15.5 x 10.5 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘Pen-Olva Pool’ 2008 Linocut A/P 30.5 x 20.5 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical...

DAVIES, Peter (b.1953) ‘Room for Rothko’ 2008 Linocut A/P 30.0 x 30.0 cm Artists Statement Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechani...

A hand-colored engraving of the interior The German Chapel, St. James Palace in London, England from 'The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore', commissioned by the British Royal Family. The work is one of the finest depictions of interiors ever published. The engraving was created by Daniel Havel (1786-1826) after a painting by Charles Wild (1781-1835) and published by William Henry Pyne (1770–1843) in 1819. The print is presented in a gold-colored wood museum style frame and an elaborate light grey French mat with highlighted gold and royal blue bands. A certificate of authenticity from Trowbridge Gallery...

Fred Mershimer created "Above the Rush" in 2003 using mezzotint and aquatint printmaking techniques. The edition of 120 pieces is printed in color. It is signed, titled, and dated ...

“INTERIORS IV : HOTEL PARADISE” Contemporary artist Peter Milton created this etching and engraving in 1987. The printed Image size is 24 x 35.50 inches and the paper size is 30.75 x 41.75 inches. This impression is signed, dated, and titled in pencil, and inscribed “84/175” – the 84th impression of an edition of 175 pieces. “I do love to draw. I feel that I am being granted membership in the Brotherhood of Merlin, conjuring forth some apparition. As a drawing develops, I sense a vague presence coming more and more into focus, something in a white fog emerging and becoming increasingly palpable.” – P. Milton, “The primacy of touch. The Drawings of Peter Milton” “Working in layers, Milton begins with drawings based on people and places, with nods to Western art history and culture. He is a master of the appropriated image, a term that may conjure Andy Warhol and his Pop Art comrades. But Milton steps further back in history, avoiding the Pop sense of cool advertising and popular culture references. Instead, a broader cultural past is tapped through historical photographs of key players, architecture, and locales, which he reinvents by hand. He adds content drawn from his life as an avid reader – always with multiple possible interpretations – thus incorporating deeper meaning in his cinematic worlds. Elements of Greek mythology, classical music, art history, and history coalesce in his images, which embrace the messiness, sorrow, and elation that is life. One is hard-pressed to imagine a more erudite, skilled, passionate, and cheeky soul.” – T. L. Johnson and A. Shafer Peter Milton was born in Pennsylvania in 1930. He studied for two years at the Virginia Military Institute...

Engraving from a book titled, "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" printed in 1753. Thomas Chippendale was the designer and Mary and Matthew Darly...

Nelson Mandela, The Ward, Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Many people are unaware that Nelson Mandela turned his hand to art in his 80's as a way of leaving a legacy for his family...

Nelson Mandela, The Window, Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Many people are unaware that Nelson Mandela turned his hand to art in his 80's as a way of leaving a legacy for his family. He spent time with an art tutor and learnt to draw. In 2002, when creating the The Window print, he told Anna and Laura from Belgravia Gallery of his desire to become a full time artist when he retired. This sketch depicts a view of Table Mountain through the bars of a prison cell...