Felice Hodges by Cricket Fine Art Ltd

Felice Hodges

CRICKET FINE ART LONDON “Trying to describe Felice Hodges’ wonderful paintings with accuracy can be difficult because - like the truest art - they transcend the harsh rigidities and conformities of language. She makes paintings that may first appear wholly abstract and gestural in expression but, on continued looking, are generally rooted in a specific place or moment which their titles and forms gradually reveal. They hover between abstraction and some mysterious, transformed poetic reality that the viewer becomes immediately caught up in and a part of, and the viewer becomes part of an interaction or dialogue with the picture itself. The evocative mood and atmosphere of these paintings is often suggested by subtle, ravishing harmonies of colour. Tones and colours are laid next to, or over each other, to create highly original and unexpected chromatic combinations which are also intensely beautiful. These have a direct effect on the viewer’s emotions.

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Yellow Inter r upted Mixed media on canvas 597⁄8 × 481⁄8 in / 152 × 122 cm

£7,500

Felice trained as a musician and continues her musical interests and in this her work is reminiscent of the tone poems of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Such music is ethereal and free flowing, intangible, yet contained within a highly effective structure. Felice’s paintings have a similar enigmatic character.

The surface of these canvases is highly, richly complex, also like a musical composition. Felice contrasts the different textures and effects that derive from working paint with stiff and soft brushwork, bold gestures set against more contained ones. She combines acrylics with other media, and sometimes the paintings contain collaged elements. I am reminded of another American resident of Chelsea, James McNeil Whistler, who gave musical titles to his paintings - Nocturne, Harmony, Arrangement - and which suppressed narrative in favour of evoking in his viewers delicate yet penetrating emotional states. They were the very first beginnings of abstract art in Britain. In her wonderful new exhibition Felice Hodges demonstrates the continued relevance and resonance of such an expressive approach to painting and perception, and it is one that enriches all who see it.”

Robert Upstone, 2017 Former Director of The Fine Art Society and Head of Modern British Art at Tate Britain. He is now a specialist private dealer in Modern British Art.

requests the pleasure of your company at the

PRIVATE VIEW of

Felice Hodges I M A G I N E D S PA C E S at 2 Park Walk, London SW10 0AD

TUESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2017 6-8pm

The exhibition continues until 21 October 2017 Paintings are for sale on receipt of this catalogue. The entire exhibition can be viewed online at cricketfineart.co.uk

Paris Blue

Paris Blue II

Mixed media on canvas 427⁄8 × 711⁄4 in / 109 × 181 cm

£7,500

2 | FELICE HODGES

above

right

Mandarine Square

On Top

Mixed media on paper 201⁄8 × 161⁄8 in / 51 × 41 cm

Mixed media on canvas 357⁄8 × 235⁄8 in / 91 × 60 cm

£1,250

£2,800

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above top

above

right

In Provence

W hite Cliffs

Bright Lime and Rust

Acrylic on paper 101⁄2 × 14 in / 26.7 × 35.6 cm

Acrylic on paper 101⁄2 × 15 in / 26.7 × 38.1 cm

Mixed media on board 241⁄8 × 197⁄8 in / 61 × 50.5 cm

£950

£1,650

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Vase with Blue Cup

Majolica Jug

Mixed media on paper 251⁄4 × 227⁄8 in / 64 × 58 cm

Acrylic on paper 201⁄8 × 161⁄8 in / 51 × 41 cm

£1,850

£1,250

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above left

Red and Turquoise Mixed media on card 221⁄8 × 297⁄8 in / 56 × 76 cm

£1,950 left

Blue Jug, Golden Orb Mixed media on paper 227⁄8 × 325⁄8 in /58 × 83 cms

£2,100

right

Still Life in Cerise Mixed media on canvas 667⁄8 × 28 in / 170 × 71 cm

£5,200

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above

above top

above

Jones Beach

Caribbean Blue

Color ado Blue

Ibiza

Mixed media on paper 85⁄8 × 113⁄4 in / 22 × 30 cm

Mixed media on paper 173⁄4 × 187⁄8 in / 45 × 48 cm

Mixed media on board 57⁄8 × 3 in / 14 × 7.5 cm

Mixed media on paper 201⁄8 × 161⁄8 in / 51 × 41 cm

£850

£1,250

£550

£1,250

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left

above

Fr agility

Study

Mixed media on canvas 311⁄4 × 235⁄8 in / 79.5 × 60 cm

Mixed media on canvas 241⁄8 × 241⁄8 in / 61 × 61 cm

£2,500

£1,650

above

right

Green Lattice

Fifties Picnic

Char treuse and Lilac

Mixed media on paper 231⁄4 × 231⁄4 in / 59 × 59 cm

Mixed media on paper 145⁄8 × 133⁄4 in / 37 × 35 cm

Mixed media on canvas 361⁄8 × 241⁄8 in / 91.5 × 61 cm

£1,650

£1,150

£2,500

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above top

above

right

Blue Heaven

Into the Wood

Green Tree

In Your Stride

Mixed media on panel 113⁄4 × 113⁄4 in / 30 × 30 cm

Mixed media on panel 113⁄4 × 113⁄4 in / 30 × 30 cms

Mixed media on board 113⁄4 × 113⁄4 in / 30 × 30 cm

Mixed media on canvas 667⁄8 × 28 in / 170 × 71 cm

£950

£5,800

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above

above top

above right

right

Blue Ridge Hill

Grey, ochre and pink

Landscape with Pink Column

Olive at Night

Mixed media on canvas board 81⁄8 × 81⁄8 in / 20.5 × 20.5 cm

Mixed media on canvas 113⁄4 × 113⁄4 in / 30 × 30 cms

Gouache and watercolour on paper 77⁄8 × 113⁄8 in / 20 × 29 cm

£750

£700

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£950

Mixed media on canvas 361⁄8 × 241⁄8 in / 91.5 × 61 cm

£2,500

above

right

Assembly

Table Top

Mixed media on paper 201⁄8 × 161⁄8 in / 51 × 41cm

Mixed media on paper 71⁄2 × 51⁄2 in / 19 × 14 cm

£1,250

£650

above right

opposite

Masquer ade

Fields of Gold

Mixed media on paper 95⁄8 × 95⁄8 in / 24.5 × 24.5 cm

Mixed media on canvas 667⁄8 × 621⁄4 in / 170 × 158 cm

£850

£8,500

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F leeting I

F leeting II

Mixed media on canvas 63 × 481⁄8 in / 160 × 122 cm

£7,500

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above top

above

Water Falling

Balcony

Man and Beast No. 1

On the Way

Mixed media on canvas 97⁄8 × 81⁄8 in / 25 × 20.5 cm

Mixed media on paper 111⁄8 × 111⁄8 in /28 × 28 cm

Mixed media and collage on paper 113⁄4 × 125⁄8 in / 30 × 32 cm

Mixed media on canvas 481⁄8 × 481⁄8 in / 122 × 122 cm

£850

£950

£5,200

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above

right

Duet

Venice Blue

Mixed media on card 221⁄8 × 297⁄8 in / 56 × 76 cm

Mixed media on canvas 361⁄8 × 241⁄8 in / 91.5 × 61 cm

£1,950

£2,500

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above top

above right

Still Life with Tangerine

Totem Pole, 2004

Mixed media on canvas 215⁄8 × 201⁄2 in / 55 × 52 cm

Gouache on handmade paper 51⁄2 × 4 in / 14 × 10 cm

£2,100

£450

above

right

Wedgwood Blue Vase

Or ange Bur ning

Mixed media and collage on paper 221⁄2 × 297⁄8 in / 57 × 76 cm

Mixed media on canvas 481⁄8 × 357⁄8 in / 122 × 91 cm

£1,950

£4,500

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above top

above

Aqua Jug and Pur ple

Salmon Pink

Sail, Lilac and Sand

Mixed media on paper 57⁄8 x 113⁄4 in / 15 x 30 cms

Mixed media on panel 57⁄8 × 113⁄4 in / 15 × 30 cm

Mixed media on canvas 357⁄8 × 357⁄8 in / 91 × 91 cm

£700

£3,500

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right

Camar aderie

Blue River Series II

Mixed media on canvas board 15 × 91⁄2 in / 38 × 24 cm

Mixed media on canvas 481⁄8 × 481⁄8 in / 122 × 122 cm

£950

£5,200

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above

back cover

right

Constant Gardener

Rocky Mountain

Indian Summer II

Mixed media on panel 153⁄4 × 153⁄4 in / 40 × 40 cm

Mixed media on panel 241⁄8 × 113⁄4 in / 61 × 30 cm

Mixed media on canvas 60 × 60 in / 150 × 150 cm

£1,250

£1,450

£8,000

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