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Cranefly - Minimalist White and Blue Oil Paint and Pencil Work on Paper
By Keith Purser
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Keith Purser b. 1944
Cranefly, 2007
oil and pencil
40 x 40 cm
15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
signed, dated and titled
Keith Purser lives and works on the edge of the desert-like environment of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pencil
Seersucker Cloth - Flower Still Life Oil Painting in Neutral Tones and Grey
By Stephanie Richards
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Stephanie Richards b. 1978
Seersucker Cloth, 2024
oil on board
21 x 26 cm
8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in
signed with initials
My works are composed of small-scale paintings, mostly still life. I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Yellow Table with Figs - Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting with Bowls + Fruit
By Nicholas Turner
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Nicholas Turner b. 1972
Yellow Table with Figs, 2018-2023
oil on canvas
61 x 61 cm
24 x 24 in
signed, dated and titled verso
Born in London, Turner spent many years in Bristol befor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Table and Light House - Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting, Red + Green
By Nicholas Turner
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Nicholas Turner b. 1972
Red Table and Light House, 2022-2024
oil on canvas
61 x 61 cm
24 x 24 in
signed, dated and titled verso
Born in London, Turner spent many years in Bristol b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Table with Pears - Fruit Still Life Oil Painting in Neutral White, Grey + Pink
By Nicholas Turner
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Nicholas Turner b. 1972
Table with Pears, 2013-2014
oil on board
76 x 81.5 cm
29 7/8 x 32 1/8 in
signed, dated and titled verso
Born in London, Turner spent many years in Bristol be...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life, White Flowers - Blue and Grey Still Life Oil Painting with Sunset
By Richard Ballinger
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Richard Ballinger b. 1957
Still life, White Flowers, 2024-2025
oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
signed, dated and titled verso
Richard Ballinger is a British landscape a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mug and Flowers, Chy an Kerris - Kate Nicholson Neutral Still Life Oil Painting
By Kate Nicholson
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Kate Nicholson 1929-2019
Mug and Flowers, Chy an Kerris, 1941
oil on board
61 x 80 cm
24 x 31 1/2 in
signed, titled and inscribed on the reverse
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cornish Bunch - Kate Nicholson Flower Still Life Oil Painting, Neutrals + White
By Kate Nicholson
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Kate Nicholson 1929-2019
Cornish Bunch, 1955
oil on canvas laid on board
27.9 x 22.9 cm
11 x 9 in
signed, titled and dated verso
Category
1950s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Etruscan Equine Vase - Bright Red, Brown + Orange Still Life Painting with Plant
By David Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Pearce b. 1963
Etruscan Equine Vase, 2024
acrylic on board
61 x 50.5 cm
24 x 19 7/8 in
signed with initials and dated
David Pearce is a British painter.
After travelling wide...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mountain Sandwort in Yunomi - Neutral Still Life Oil Painting with Flowers + Pot
By Stephanie Richards
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Stephanie Richards b. 1978
Mountain Sandwort in Yunomi
oil on board
36 x 40.5 cm
14 1/8 x 16 in
signed with initials
"My works are composed of sma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cornflowers and Sashiko Cloth - Flower Still Life Oil Painting, Grey and Yellow
By Stephanie Richards
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Stephanie Richards b. 1978
Cornflowers and Sashiko Cloth
oil on board
30 x 30.3 cm
11 3/4 x 11 7/8 in
signed with initials
"My works are composed o...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mosaic, 1960 - 20th C Abstracted Still Life Oil Painting, Yellow, Green + Red
By Laurence Scarfe
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Laurence Scarfe 1914-1993
Mosaic, 1960
oil on board
50.8 x 111.8 cm
20 x 44 in
signed with initials; signed again, dated and titled verso
Laurence Scarfe was a multi-disciplinary Mo...
Category
1960s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Flowers in a Red Vase, 2023 - Still Life Oil on Board Painting, Grey and Green
By Nicholas Turner
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Nicholas Turner b. 1972
Flowers in a Red Vase, 2023
oil on board
12.6 x 11.5 cm
5 x 4 1/2 in
signed, dated and titled verso
Nicholas Turner is a painter of quiet compositions that a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
July in the Garden, 2024 - Colourful Flower Oil Painting with Bee and Butterfly
By Jo Aylward
Located in Kingsclere, GB
July in the Garden, 2024
oil on board
20.5 x 20.5 cm
8 1/8 x 8 1/8 in
signed, titled and dated
Jo Aylward is a British ruralist whose paintings are embedded in the everyday experie...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life on a Window Seat, 2024 - Contemporary Flower Oil Painting with Green
By Martin Yeoman
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life on a Window Seat, 2024
oil on canvas
78.5 x 63 cm
30 7/8 x 24 3/4 in
Martin Yeoman was born in 1953, and studied with Peter Greenham at the Royal Academy Schools, London,...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses in a White Jug, 2024 - Still Life Interior Oil Painting with Flowers
By Martin Yeoman
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Roses in a White Jug, 2024
oil on canvas
unsigned
45.5 x 35.5 cm
17 7/8 x 14 in
Martin Yeoman was born in 1953, and studied with Peter Greenham at the Royal Academy Schools, London,...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflower, 2024 - Contemporary Still Life Acrylic Painting of Flower in Red
By David Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Pearce is a British painter.
After travelling widely throughout the 1980s, Pearce returned to settle and work near Padstow in Cornwall. As a self-taught artist, he sought in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Darker Shade of White, 1985 - Minimalist White and Grey Flower Oil Painting
By John Hitchens
Located in Kingsclere, GB
The only son of the artist Ivon Hitchens, John is also a landscape and still life painter.
Hitchens was born in Hove, Sussex and now lives in Petworth. After studying at Bedales (...
Category
Late 20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rose, 1969 - Brown and Red Gouache Painting of Flower by Mary Fedden
By Mary Fedden
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Mary Fedden was a Modern British painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Born in Bristol to a family of surgeons, from childhood Fedden had wanted to become a painter. At the age of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Still Life on Small Table, 1990 - Oil Painting with Fruit in Grey and Red
By Clive Blackmore
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Clive Blackmore was born in 1940 and studied at Twickenham and Kingston Schools of Art. He worked mainly as a potter until 1984 when he returned to painting full time and has recentl...
Category
1990s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Blue Vase, 2024 - Still Life with Flowers and Landscape in Green and Blue
By Richard Ballinger
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Richard Ballinger is a British landscape and still-life painter.
“I do not draw in the landscape, I draw from it. It’s taken me inside, to the studio, imagining how it should be ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life, Blue Vase in Green, 2024 - Flowers in Jug with Landscape Painting
By Richard Ballinger
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Richard Ballinger is a British landscape and still-life painter.
“I do not draw in the landscape, I draw from it. It’s taken me inside, to the studio, imagining how it should be ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Table Top (Apple Trees), 2016 - Contemporary Interior Acrylic Painting, Plants
By David Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Pearce is a British painter.
After travelling widely throughout the 1980s, Pearce returned to settle and work near Padstow in Cornwall. As a self-taught artist, he sought i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Butterfly Garden, 2024 - Contemporary Flower Oil Painting, Nature + Butterflies
By Jo Aylward
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jo Aylward is a British ruralist whose paintings are embedded in the everyday experience of living and working in the countryside.
She studied Fine Art Painting and Printmaking a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life with Flowers - 20th Century Still Life Oil Painting, Flowers in Cup
By Stephen Bone
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Stephen Bone was a 20th-century landscape, mural and portrait painter.
He was born in London, the son of the artist and etcher Sir Muirhead Bone. The family lived in Italy between 1910 and 1912, before Stephen returned to attend Bedales School. He went on to study at the Slade School of Art, which now forms part of University College London, from 1922 to 1924 under Henry Tonks. Bone won a gold medal for wood engraving in the Paris International Exhibition the year after his graduation. The rest of 1925 was spent touring Spain with his father and travelling to France, Greece and Scandinavia. In 1929 he married his fellow artist, Mary Adshead, who had been a student with him at the Slade. In the early years of their marriage, the two travelled around Greece, Italy and the British Isles together.
An exhibition of Bone's work, alongside works from Robin Guthrie and Rodney Burn, was held at the London Goupil Gallery in 1926. In 1932 Bone became a member of the New English Art Club, having exhibited with them since around 1920. During the 1930s, he exhibited landscapes and portraits at the Royal Academy, the Fine Art Society, the Lefevre Gallery, and the Redfern Gallery, including a solo exhibition in 1938. An exhibition at Ryman's Galleries, Oxford, in 1936 included oil paintings of forty-one British counties that Bone had created during his travels. During his time in Stockholm in 1936-37, Bone produced many works and had a number of exhibitions.
Though Bone is most recognised for his landscape paintings, he was also an illustrator, portraitist and mural painter. In 1925 his woodcuts illustrated the book 'Of the Western Isles...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tea Bowl with Buttercup Cloth, 2024 - Minimalist Still Life Floral Oil Painting
By Stephanie Richards
Located in Kingsclere, GB
"My works are composed of small-scale paintings, mostly still life. I prefer to paint intuitively, working directly onto the board and allow the paintings to evolve over time. From t...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thrift in Celadon, 2024 - Contemporary Minimalist Floral Still-Life Oil Painting
By Stephanie Richards
Located in Kingsclere, GB
"My works are composed of small-scale paintings, mostly still life. I prefer to paint intuitively, working directly onto the board and allow the paintings to evolve over time. From t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life I, 2023 - Flowers in a Vase Acrylic Painting, Yellow, White and Reds
By David Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Pearce is a British painter.
After travelling widely throughout the 1980s, Pearce returned to settle and work near Padstow in Cornwall. As a self-taught artist, he sought insp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Yellow Root, 2024 - Minimalist Abstract Still Life Oil Painting, White + Yellow
By Tom Harford Thompson
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Tom Harford Thompson was born in Amersham in 1964. He trained as a pattern cutter at London College of Fashion, before going on to study a BA in Art History at Manchester School of A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Oxalis with Mediterranean Linen, 2024 - White Minimalist Still Life Oil Painting
By Stephanie Richards
Located in Kingsclere, GB
My works are composed of small-scale paintings, mostly still life. I prefer to paint intuitively, working directly onto the board and allow the paintings to evolve over time. From th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Spring Flowers, 2003 - Bright Watercolour Painting of Flowers by Mary Fedden
By Mary Fedden
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Mary Fedden was a Modern British painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Born in Bristol to a family of surgeons, from childhood Fedden had wanted to become a painter. At the age of si...
Category
Early 2000s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Happy Flowers, 2022 - Brightly Coloured Still Life Acrylic on Canvas Painting
By David Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Pearce is a British painter.
After travelling widely throughout the 1980s, Pearce returned to settle and work near Padstow in Cornwall. As a self-taught artist, he sought insp...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Garlic on French Plate, Framed Oil Painting for Sale, Still life Artwork
By Martin Yeoman
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Two Garlic on French Plate Painting by Martin Yeoman B. 1953, 2016
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 23.5 x 31 cm
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in
Martin Yeoman was born in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Still Life, Red and Yellow Flowers by Peter Potworowski, c.1955
By Peter Potworowski
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life, Red and Yellow Flowers
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Vase of Flowers, Oil on Canvas Painting by Gertrude Harvey, circa 1930
By Gertrude Harvey
Located in Kingsclere, GB
A Vase of Flowers, Oil on Canvas Painting by Gertrude Harvey 1879-1966, circa 1930
Provenance
Bette Moore, the sister of Midge Bruford
Exhibitions
Fa...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Flowers, Oil on Board Painting by Jane Skingley
By Jane Skingley
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Autumn Flowers, Oil on Board Painting by Jane Skingley B. 1963
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
30 x 30 cm
11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
Jane Skingley paints seascapes and landsca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Waving by Tessa Newcomb, 2024
By Tessa Newcomb
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Waving by Tessa Newcomb, 2024
Additional information:
Medium: oil on board
21.5 x 25.5 cm
8 1/2 x 10 in
signed with initials and dated; further signed, titled and dated verso
Born ...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
ABS
Untitled (Spring Flowers), 1989 - Styrofoam Still Life Print with Blue + White
By Tessa Newcomb
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Untitled (Spring Flowers) by Tessa Newcomb, 1989
Additional information:
Medium: styrofoam print
22.7 x 17 cm
9 x 6 3/4 in
signed and dated
Born in Suffolk in 1955, Tessa Newcomb i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper
Red by Tessa Newcomb, 2024
By Tessa Newcomb
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Red by Tessa Newcomb, 2024
Additional information:
Medium: oil on board
25 x 9.5 cm
9 7/8 x 3 3/4 in
signed with initials and dated; further signed, titled and dated verso
Born in ...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
ABS
Untitled (Cornishware Jug) by Tessa Newcomb, 1989
By Tessa Newcomb
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Untitled (Cornishware Jug) by Tessa Newcomb, 1989
Additional information:
Medium: styrofoam print
33.1 x 25.4 cm
13 x 10 in
signed with initials and dated
Born in Suffolk in 1955, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
ABS
Jo Mossman’s Eggcup, Oil on Board Painting by Stephanie Richards, 2024
By Stephanie Richards
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Jo Mossman’s Eggcup, Oil on Board Painting by Stephanie Richards B. 1978, 2024
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
30 x 36 cm
11 3/4 x 14 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Still life with Fruit and Flowers, Oil on Canvas by Matthew Smith, 1950s Circa
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still life with Fruit and Flowers, Oil on Canvas by Matthew Smith, 1950s Circa
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
25.5 x 31 cm
10 1/8 x 1...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Still Life with Jugs, Oil on Canvas by Stella Steyn, 1951
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life with Jugs, Oil on Canvas by Stella Steyn, 1951
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
61 x 91 cm
24 1/8 x 35 7/8 in
Dated and titled verso
Stella Steyn trained in Dublin, Berlin and Paris in the 1920s, meeting Samuel Beckett and James Joyce for whom she undertook the illustrations for ‘Finnegan’s Wake...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Price Upon Request
Still life, Oil on Board Painting by Bryan Pearce, 1987
By Bryan Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still life, Oil on Board Painting by Bryan Pearce, 1987
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
61 x 50.8 cm
24 x 20 in
Signed and dated verso
Born...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Flower Piece, Oil on Board Painting by Anne Estelle Rice
By Anne Estelle Rice
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Flower Piece, Oil on Board Painting by Anne Estelle Rice
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
50.8 x 40.6 cm
20 x 16 in
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Pink Poppy and Sweet Peas, Oil on Canvas Painting by David Michie, circa 1980
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Pink Poppy and Sweet Peas, Oil on Canvas Painting by David Michie 1928-2015, circa 1980
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
92 x 127 cm
36 1/4 x 50 in
Signed
David Michie was a Scottish painter, known for his still lifes, landscapes and depictions of everyday people.
David Michie was born in 1928 in Saint-Raphaël, the south of France. He was born into a family of artists, his mother was the renowned Edinburgh School painter Anne Redpath (1895-1965) and his father the painter and architect, James Beattie Michie (1891-1960), his elder brother, Alastair Michie...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Still Life with Violin, Oil on Canvas Painting by David Mcclure
By David McClure
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life with Violin, Oil on Canvas Painting by David Mcclure 1926-1998
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
70 x 90.5 cm
27 1/2 x 35 5/8 in
Provenance
Estate of the Art...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Still life, Flowers (3), Oil on Canvas Painting by Rodrigo Moynihan, 1939
By Rodrigo Moynihan
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still life, Flowers (3), Oil on Canvas Painting by Rodrigo Moynihan 1910-1990, 1939
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
55.9 x 45.7 cm
22 x 18 in
Signed and dated; with in...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Hyacinths and Almond Tree, Oil on Canvas Painting by Margaret Mellis, 1951
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Hyacinths and Almond Tree, Oil on Canvas Painting by Margaret Mellis 1914-2009, 1951
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
51 x 63 cm
20 1/8 x 24 3/4 in
Margaret Mellis was an important figure in the story of St Ives, though her artwork is often overlooked. Known for her collages and constructions in the 1930s and 1940s, the break-up of her marriage to Adrian Stokes and subsequent marriage to Francis Davison with the move to Suffolk in 1948, resulted in a dramatic change in her work: ‘I couldn’t even go on with what I was doing, so I went right back to the beginning of where I left off representational painting. I started over again’. The early 1950s saw a series of still-life compositions in which colour remained central to her working and her former abstract tendencies are still evident. Here, the use of the window obscures the foreground-background distinction and the deliberately arbitrary use of colour allows for Mellis to subtly distort the subject matter.
Provenance
The Estate of the Artist
Exhibitions
London, The Redfern Gallery, 'Margaret Mellis: Paintings and Constructions', 2016
Literature
'Margaret Mellis: Paintings and Constructions', The Redfern Gallery, London, 2016, illus., p. 22
Margaret Mellis was one of the early members, and last survivors, of the group of modernists that popularised St Ives as a hub of artistic activity in the 1940s.
Mellis was born in Wukingfu, Swatow, China, where her father was a missionary. Her family returned to East Lothian when she was one year old, shortly after the First World War broke out, so her father David Barclay Mellis-Smith could join up.
Abandoning an initial interest in music, she studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1930 to 1934, under colourist Samuel John Peploe...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Nature Morte (Still life; with Fruit and Flowers), Oil on Canvas Painting
By Roger Marcel Limouse
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Nature Morte (Still life; with Fruit and Flowers), Oil on Canvas Painting by Roger Marcel Limouse 1894-1990
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm
18 1/8 x 21 5/8 ...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Flowers, Oil on Canvas Painting by Josef Herman, 1962
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Flowers, Oil on Canvas Painting by Josef Herman 1915-1997, 1962
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
60.5 x 45.5 cm
23 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
Signed, titled and dated verso
Josef...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Price Upon Request
Still Life with Shell and Feathers, Oil Board Painting by William George Gillies
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life with Shell and Feathers, Oil Board Painting by William George Gillies
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
34.5 x 48 cm
13 5/8 x 18 7/8 in
Signed
The sumptuous f...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Still Life with Earthenware Jug by Clive Blackmore, 1998, Oil Painting
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life with Earthenware Jug, Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Painting, 1998
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas laid on board
25.5 x 38 cm
10 x 15 in
Signed and dated; als...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life, Oil on Board Painting by John Armstrong, 1960
By John Armstrong
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life, Oil on Board Painting by John Armstrong, 1960
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
11 1/4 x 15 1/8 in
28.5 x 38.5 cm
Signed and dated
This painting shows Armstrong's earlier career as a theatre designer, with its subjects arranged on a window sill as if actors in a play; the leaf and muntin, painted in a similar tone of green, act as a mid-ground to the autumnal trees outside the Artist's London home. Painted after Armstrong had returned to the city from Lamorna, Cornwall, as a struggling artist, models were too expensive and so he resorted to using fruits and vegetables from his local market. Showing a Cycladic vessel that appears in other works from 1957 onwards, as illustrated in Lambirth's book, including Still life with Mushrooms from 1961. The distinctive brick-like pattern of Armstrong's brushstrokes shines through here.
John Armstrong was a painter of imaginative subjects, designer of film and stage sets, mural painter and book illustrator.
Born in Hastings, Sussex, John Rutherford Armstrong attended St Paul's School, London, and studied law at St John's College, Oxford, before taking up art at St John's Wood School of Art (1913-14). He served in the Royal Field Artillery (1914-19) before returning to St John's Wood School for a short period after the war. His first one-man exhibition was at the Leicester Galleries in 1928, where he first met members of the Unit One group, joining them for their 1933 exhibition. It was after this that Armstrong's work began to develop a Surrealist character.
Much of Armstrong's oeuvre has its foundation in classical legend, landscape, or imagery, surely understandable given his classical education and WW1 service in the Near East. Varied Greek vase forms regularly make an appearance in his work from the mid-1930s, notably in his GPO poster...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Still Life, Anstruther, Oil on Board Painting by John Houston, 1953
By John Houston
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life, Anstruther, Oil on Board Painting by John Houston 1930-2008, 1953
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
31.5 x 41.5 cm
12 3/8 x 16 3/8 in
Signed and dated
Proven...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Poppy Heads and Harbour Painting by Nicholas Turner, 2021
By Nicholas Turner
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Poppy Heads and Harbour Painting by Nicholas Turner B. 1972, 2021
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm
7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in
Signed, titled and dated verso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Oil on Gesso Board 'Flower Jug' Painting by Ffiona Lewis, 2023
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Oil on Gesso Board 'Flower Jug' Painting by Ffiona Lewis B. 1964, 2023
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on gesso board
Dimensions: 24 x 30 cm
9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in
Signed
Ffiona Lew...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Acrylic on Panel 'Still Life I' Painting by David Pearce, 2023
By David Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Acrylic on Panel 'Still Life I' Painting by David Pearce B. 1963, 2023
Additional information:
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Dimensions: 40.6 x 30.5 cm
16 x 12 in
Signed with initials an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel
Still Life with Blue Painting by David Pearce, 2023
By David Pearce
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life with Blue Painting by David Pearce B. 1963, 2023
Additional information:
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Dimensions: 40.6 x 30.5 cm
16 x 12 in
Signed with initials and dated.
D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel
Pale Still Life, 2022 - Contemporary Oil Painting with Flowers, White and Green
By Tom Harford Thompson
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Pale Still Life Painting by Tom Harford Thompson B. 1964, 2022
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm
23 5/8 x 31 1/2 in
Signed with stamp, dated and ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
