Europe - Paintings

This is one of two 20th century square oil on board paintings by T Alderson from the same series. Great use of colours and subject to make this extremely decorative. The large size a...

Kinetic artwork. Contemporary work.  

Italian late 20th century Abstract painting Ricordare by Stefano Peroli, 1994 Large abstract painting entitled Ricordare. Oil on canvas, blue, green and white, with blue painted pape...

Villy Buus Nielsen (b. 1907): Standing rooster. Oil painting on board. Measures: 38 x 52 cm. In perfect condition. Signed, 59.

Rupert Muldoon. Egg tempera on gesso panel. Framed and glazed non-re active. Rupert Muldoon: "Green River II was painted whilst standing underneath an old plane tree, with its branches dipping into the water and the light came from behind. It was quite hard to see where the leaves in the light, and the lights on the water began and ended. So I wanted to create more of an abstract painting that captured this." Rupert Muldoon traces the ephemeral qualities of the River Avon, a few minutes walk from his home and studio at Trafalgar Park. Working along the same stretch of river as Turner and Constable before him, Muldoon’s observations of the riverbank are taken at closer quarters: he is attracted by the danker more marginal places than his illustrious predecessors. Having trained and worked as a landscape architect and gardener for over a decade, Muldoon has a profound affinity with the landscape and with plants. His observations are at once precise and evocative, and his aim to create an impression - almost like a colour field painting - is entirely absorbing. Muldoon paints in egg tempera, one of the only artists in Britain to use this ancient medium, which allows him to layer translucent glazes upon one another to mesmerising effect. He says: “I paint reflections which mirror the bank, but the river bank itself is a very complicated thing; there are trees, poplars, bits of foliage that dip into the stream, its all moving and trembling, there are birds flitting around… the sound of the water. As I see that image when I’m sitting there, I want to relay all of that onto a board. The way I have found to do it is not to give anything in the painting in much focus. I want it all...