Carl Grauer Still-life Paintings

A joyful depiction of a towering celebration cake decorated in edible wild flowers. This painting has a great deal of texture, vibrancy and character. Kerry Louise Bennett, artist and painter, has original artworks available with Wychwood Art in our gallery and online. Working from her home studio in Sheffield, Kerry Louise Bennett (b.1972) makes colourful paintings loaded with texture and pattern. Her previous lives working in set design, upholstery and photography, and her passion for music and literature, all feed into the semi-abstract interior and still life compositions she paints. In one sense the objects painted and the relationships between them can be seen as arbitrary, necessary only to serve a sense of spatial orchestration, and the abstract sensibility of a process-led artist, however, an element of romance and storytelling always seems to emerge in her charming characterful paintings. Colour and composition, strong mark-making and the pure materiality of paint drive my creative practice, but of course everything I make reveals something of me - the introvert, the observer, the dreamer. I work over multiple layers before finding the story the painting wants to tell. In some ways I feel like the conductor of an unruly orchestra - there is a musicality to my work, and my visual vocabulary draws on the everyday to capture a kind of unconscious narrative that transforms chaos into calm, worry into joy, the mundane to the magical. Kerry says of herself: I am obsessed with colour first and foremost – it’s impact is so visceral, but mark making is also important – usually expressed through pattern and the shapes of things often scratched into the surface of the paint, with textures then built up over many layers. My visual vocabulary draws on the ordinary stuff of life - chairs, plants...

A series of paintings exploring the dynamic and expressive shapes of pot plants. I love the way that nature expresses itself; plants often remind me of dancers, but being rooted in solid earth or a heavy pot their 'moves' seem to express an un-self-conscious celebration of life, and a contented acceptance of their earthbound limitations. Throwing Some Shapes I ,II, III by Kerry Louise Bennett...

Pipa [2021] Original Flowers Oil paint on wood panel Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:24 cm x W:32 cm x D:0.5cm Framed Size: H:30 cm x W:38 cm x D:2.5cm Sold Framed Please note that...

Pocket Ladybird 2 is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still lif...

Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant paintings that celebra...

Charming and light large-scale modern contemporary interior scene by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). A large dining room table in a room of cream and light neutral tones ...

This contemporary still-life depicts a vibrant and juicy scallop on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is ready to be hung unfra...

Anne Sargent Walker’s oil, acrylic and collage painting "Out of Synch" is one of many to explore the beauty, complexity and fragility of the natural world and our complicated relatio...

A bright and inviting interior scene with a still life arrangement of red tulips beside a light green pitcher, peaches and pears on a yellow checkered table cloth. The table setting ...

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...

A clear glass vase holds bright lush chrysanthemum blossoms in coral red and pink beside orange and yellow fruits in a simply white fruit bowl set on a brown table with a clear glass...

The Other Red Phone Call, 2019 Oil on canvas (Signed on reverse) 35 7/16 H x 23 5/8 W in. 90 H x 60 W cm In his paintings, Radu Rodideal speaks about t...