NEW PAINTINGS
FRANCESCA OWEN
An award wining painter based in Cornwall, Francesca’s painDngs are inspired by Impressionism. The work is of flowers, figures, gardens, the seasons, cycles of life, love and beauty. They are made with layers of impasto oil paints.
Here is the new catalogue of work, please enjoy browsing the collecDon. All works are for sale.
Sleeping in a blue dress
30x30cm
Framed
2024
Collecting water 60x80cm
Framed 2024
Family 60x80cm Framed 2024
In the shade of the ferns
80x100cm
Framed 2024
Playing in the green garden
40x60cm
Framed
2024
Moments by the sea
40x60cm
Framed 2024
Orange sunset
40x60cm
Framed
2024
Walking under the same star
40x60cm
Framed
2024
40x60cm
Framed 2024
Pink desert sunshine
40x60cm
Framed 2024
Pink pomegranate chart
40x60cm
Framed 2024
Sleeping on silk
Tea under the banyan tree
40x60cm
Framed
2024
A river prayer
40x60cm
Framed 2024
In the pink garden
80x100cm
Framed
2024
The reader 100x200cm
Framed 2024
Dreamer in pink
100x200cm
Framed 2024
100x200cm
Framed 2024
White lace Mayflower
60x80cm
Framed
2024
Girl and the orange tree
In the garden room
100x100cm
Framed 2024
A summer afternoon
100x100cm
Framed 2024
100x80cm
Framed
2024
Girl and the peacock
‘Francesca Owen’s pain/ngs are so alive and ethereal with such drama, mystery and energy… And of course the most skilful and expert use of colour, structure and emo/onal storytelling and masterful brushwork across the whole works. Spellbinding indeed. She is blessed to be a complete
genius at her work’
Words kindly given by Private Art Collector.
Some of my most favourite days are ‘nothing days.’ These are the days when a storm is raging and no one is outside. These are the days when the mind is most clear for pain/ng.
I’d begin a new pain/ng and enjoy the feeling of the colours gliding on the surface of the canvas- a world of possibili/es and it could go any which way it chose to. It was the theme of gardens, figures, flowers and they would make their appearance. AIer a while I would turn to the Impressionist movement or older pain/ngs I had made for reference for example to look for more colour or stories unresolved.
Looking back was looking forwards and space on ‘nothing days’ was when this came. I’d think of what my tutors said at Slade when I had just started art school. A younger me s/ll fixated on themes of nature and travel, figures and gardens. Colour then seemed somewhat aggressive as I had less experience so now I look for a soIer but s/ll strong approach.
I have always enjoyed the heaviness in the body of paint itself. Making it almost sculptural in applica/on and layers I had been told must have been an influence from a tutor called Phyllida Barlow- her warmth and energy to try to drive me was unforgeOable and I felt her loss even now. Un/l his death, the head of pain/ng was Andrew Stahl and we oIen talked about new works and shows I was doing. I had two scholarships and had won awards and this helped me to buy canvas and materials and to travel.
Dreams of gardens, flowers, figures all come into existence in my world of pain/ng. Gardens are a kind of utopia, a place of memory, love and healing, flowers are symbols of different parts of ourselves that we want to hold onto or forget, the figure is there because it’s you and you’re seeing the work and being in it and because that’s how we see the world. All these things just appear in their own way as I am pain/ng.
The boOom line for my work is to convey love, beauty, nature and all of this must be included and balanced but out of balance in order for me to make a pain/ng and to feel that it is conclusive and that it is finished or that it has arrived from somewhere else and into this world.
Between Worlds (solo) The Crypt Gallery, St Ives 2024
Francesca Owen is an award-winning painter. a former student and recipient of two scholarships at the Slade School of Fine Art, including the Euan Uglow memorial scholarship. Francesca Owen's painDngs are now held with collectors and galleries across the U.K, Europe and America. Contact her or see her gallery lisDngs for more details.
francesca985@gmail.com
07828703353
www.francescaowen.co.uk
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