Giuseppe Chiari Paintings

David Rankin, American (b. 1946) Rocky Hillside, (1990) Oil on paper Hand signed lower right, signed and titled verso. 30 x 22 1/2 inches David Rankin is a New York-based, British-born Australian post-war and contemporary artist known for his expressionistic abstract paintings. His work can be categorized by his use of quick, loose brushstrokes, reminiscent of scribbles on a page. Rankin works predominantly in oil painting and acrylic on canvas, but also works with paper, prints, sculptures and ceramics. Rankin has held over 100 one-person exhibitions in cities across the world, including New York, London, Paris, Beijing, Mexico, Vienna, Berlin and Cologne, as well as all over Australia. Represented in many of the world’s leading public and private collections and museums, David Rankin’s work is featured in Australia’s leading institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria and Queensland Art Gallery. David Rankin was born in Plymouth, Devon, England in 1946 then emigrated to Australia with his family in 1948. He spent his childhood in the 1950s in the semi-rural Port Hacking region South of Sydney and his teenage years in country New South Wales, from Hay, Wagga Wagga and Albury in the South to Bourke and Brewarrina in the North. Rankin is self-taught, developing his techniques and ideas in the outback towns of his youth. He was inspired by the greats from Leonardo da Vinci to Paul Klee as well as being influenced by the history of Buddhism and Asian art. In his travels before he arrived in Sydney in 1967 he developed a concept of what he wanted to achieve as an Australian artist. His dream was to express the anima, the life spirit or the essence of God in all nature. As an Australian artist he believed could bring the elements of Western Art together with an understanding and love for the cultures of Asia and the Australian Aborigine. He also felt that as Australia was closer to Asia than Europe it made sense to think about the art of Indian, Chinese and Japanese artists, and that one could not be an authentic articulate Australian artist without a love and respect for the artistic and spiritual expressions of the various Aboriginal artists, peoples and cultures. His work combined elements of Abstract Expressionist painting with Jewish and Aboriginal influences. In 1979 his first wife, Jennifer Mary Roberts (née Haynes) died. Rankin subsequently met his current wife Lily Brett, whose own life was etched by tragedy with her parents being survivors of the Holocaust. She too migrated to Australia as a child after the Second World War in 1948. The artist recounts that his empathy for Lily and the pity for his first wife's death fused into what he calls "the dark blessing of my life." The darkness was transformed into images. The author Dore Ashton writes that the events of 1979 and the fire which ravished his studio in 1997 and burnt his art works and many personal possessions, had a profound impact on his work. Having personal life experiences as his subject matter, Rankin's paintings contemplate these things. For example, his Jerusalem series followed a trip to Jerusalem in 1988, which then led to his Golgotha works. His travels to the Australian, American and Mexican deserts became the subject matter for many of his canvases, such as Ridge – Mungo, Golden Prophecy – San Antonio, Grey Sonora Landscape and then led to his Witness Series. From the fire in his studio he then painted Buddha and Flames. He illustrated two books by Lily Brett on the holocaust and explored the theme further in his huge work The Drowned and The Saved from a book by Primo Levi of the same name. Through Brett he encountered Jewish mythology and painted judaica imagery, Black...

Jon Rowland – Sand Bank [2021] original Acrylic on paper Image size: H:38 cm x W:55 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:57 cm x D:0.1cm Frame Size: H:78 cm x W:61 cm x...

Gouache on canvas & handmade paper Sandra Detourbet is a French artist born in 1967 who works & lives in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. She is graduated in 1997 from ENSAD in Paris, Ar...

Gouache on canvas & handmade paper Sandra Detourbet is a French artist born in 1967 who works & lives in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. She is graduated...

Lakeside Sunset by Jon Rowland Original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on paper Sold unframed Complete size of unframed work: H:30cm x W:40cm x D:0.1 Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Lakeside Sunset is an original semi-abstract painting by Jon Rowland. Which is part of his series of small acrylic and mixed media paintings that interpret the landscape around the coastlines and lakesides of Italy. They reflect weather and light. Discover new paintings by Jon Rowland and his abstract expressionism with Wychwood Art. Each work has been carefully selected by Deborah Allan our Chief Art Curator. Wychwood Art have exhibited Jon Rowland in London during a pop-up exhibition of theirs at the Darren Baker...

"Figures at Dawn " is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black vigorous gestures unfolds over an abstract sky backgroun...

Ink, gouache on canvas & handmade paper Sandra Detourbet is a French artist born in 1967 who works & lives in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. She is graduated in 1997 from ENSAD in Pari...

Jon Rowland – Widening the River, Deepening the Cleugh #1 – Abstract expressionism [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on paper Image size: H:51 cm x W:71 cm Co...

Jon Rowland – Breeze #3 [2021] original and hand signed by the artist Pastel, acrylic and oil on paper Image size: H:51 cm x W:71 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56 cm x W:7...

Robert Mus Untitled 1 Acrylic, oil and paper on Isorel 1968 90 x 118 Certificate from the artist's daughter 2300 euros

Hors Cadre I (Abstract painting) Watercolor, color pencil and oil pastel on paper — Unframed Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, illustr...

ust Out Of Reach by Carne Griffiths is a Limited Edition Print on 330 gsm Somerset Paper with hand torn edges and is signed and editioned by the artist. Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look ADDITIONAL INFROMATION: Edition of 50.  sold unframed Print Medium: Giclee with screenprints varnish layers and 24 carat gold detailing. These detailing's are used to enhance the elements within the print; Griffiths is known for using unique mediums to create his art works primarily working with products such as tea, vodka, whiskey, brandy and calligraphy inks.  Image size: Height: 50cm (19.69 in) Width: 70cm (27.56 in) Complete size of sheet  Height: 60cm (23.62 in) Width: 80cm (31.50 in) Depth: 0.1cm (0.04 in) ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Originally from Liverpool, Griffiths graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone in 1995. After completing a one-year KIAD fellowship and moving to London he served an apprenticeship at the longest-established gold wire embroidery firm in the world. Here he worked as a gold wire embroidery designer for twelve years, eventually becoming the creative director. Carne produced intricate designs for the military and the film, theatre...