Colour Fields Annica Neum端ller & Andy Waite 3 - 25 June 2016
Annica Neumüller’s work can be described as abstract expressionist – the paintings explore colour and tone and sometimes these can be read as possible landscapes or perhaps views through doorways, and their success lies in the way colours are laid next to each other and the bold gestural mark making that defines space and form. For Annica “abstract painting is complete freedom. It can incorporate blocks of colours but also figures – the only limit is in the artist’s brain, everything is possible. But having complete freedom can be the hardest way of working”. At the other end of the spectrum, Andy Waite’s paintings look at landscape from a Romantic perspective. Working mostly from his studio, he draws from the surrounding Sussex environment - the rolling hills of the Downs, the coastal mist sitting on the horizon. His paintings are a celebration of English landscape. Using a soft colour palette that observes his landscape’s characteristics, Waite’s work has a reminiscence of the paintings from the Bloomsbury Group, who worked in the same county, but is at the same time executed in his own distinctive approach. His paintings express an emotive spontaneity that becomes semi-figurative – and it is here that the work of these two artists interplay in a quite harmonious way. This is a joyful exhibition celebrating colour and an exciting opportunity to experience the contrasting work by these two artists.
Colour Fields Annica Neum端ller & Andy Waite 3 - 25 June 2016
4 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZ Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm (Wed 2pm - 6pm) 01225 460189
www.davidsimoncontemporary.com
Annica Neum端ller
was born in 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden. She trained in fine art at the Ostersunds Konstskola, becoming a full time artist when she moved to the United Kingdom in 1999. Working from her Monmouthshire studio she produces works in acrylic, collage and mixed media and has held several solo exhibitions and group shows across Wales over the past seventeen years.
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Annica Neumüller All in Order mixed media on canvas 100 x 100cm £1,850
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Annica Neumüller Off the Beaten Track mixed media on canvas 61 x 76cm £950
Annica Neumüller This Way mixed media on canvas 80 x 100cm £1,750
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Andy Waite
graduated from West Sussex School of Art & Design in 1977. He has been painting full-time since 1989. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the United Kingdom and also the United States of America and has held regular solo exhibitions in the UK including in London since 1992. This latest series of oils on canvas largely explore his surrounding landscape of Sussex. They carry a poetical expression of a place through shifting layers of paint and juxtaposed colour.
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Andy Waite The Glass Lake oil on canvas 70 x 75cm ÂŁ1,350
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Andy Waite The Kiss of a Cloud for Borrowed Light oil on canvas 100 x 100cm ÂŁ2,695
Andy Waite Taking the Sky Home oil on canvas 70 x 80cm ÂŁ1,750
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Annica Neumüller In Confidence mixed media on board 30 x 30cm £545
Annica Neumüller Drawing I mixed media on board 15 x 20cm £325
Annica Neumüller Drawing III mixed media on board 15 x 20cm £325
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Andy Waite Wistful into This Pale Dawn oil on canvas 40 x 130cm £1,350
Andy Waite Muddied Under Foot oil on board 30 x 35cm £495 14
Andy Waite Vigil oil on canvas 100 x 120cm ÂŁ3,000
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Annica Neumüller Drawing IV mixed media on board 15 x 20cm £325
Annica Neumüller Drawing V mixed media on board 15 x 20cm £325
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Annica Neumüller Drawing VI mixed media on board 315 x 20cm £325
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Andy Waite In the Time It Takes to Tell You oil on board, diptych 40 x 80cm £950
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Andy Waite With Gladdening Heart oil on board 25 x 60cm £595
Andy Waite Scratch the Sky with Sticks oil on canvas, diptych 70 x 120cm ÂŁ2,250
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Annica Neumüller Resolved mixed media on canvas 41 x 80cm £850
Annica Neumüller Softly mixed media on canvas 41 x 61cm £750 20
Annica Neumüller Input mixed media on canvas 60 x 60cm £850
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Andy Waite Sky of Petals oil on canvas 90 x 100cm ÂŁ2,450
Over There oil on board 20 x 23cm £375
Tempest oil on board 25 x 60cm £650
Arable and Pasture oil on board 30 x 35cm £535
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Annica Neumüller Perception mixed media on canvas 50 x 50cm £700
Annica Neumüller Lovable mixed media on canvas 41 x 61cm £495
Annica Neumüller Peace of Mind mixed media on canvas 30 x 30cm £495
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4 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZ Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm (Wed 2pm - 6pm) 01225 460189
www.davidsimoncontemporary.com