Sale Catalogue : May 2020
Sale Catalogue : May 2020 We are delighted to be able to offer some of our exceptional artists’ work at special sale prices for a limited time. We would also be very happy to discuss offers, viewing details and delivery for these artworks, so please get in touch if you’d like to chat with us. Thank you.
Jessica Lloyd-Smith jessica@modernartbuyer.com 07941 301687 modernartbuyer.com @modernartbuyer
Jane Emberson Hatty Butler Paul Minott Paul Bennett Alexander Johnson Ione Parkin RWA Chuck Elliott Plum Neasmith
Jane Emberson In Jane Emberson’s words: ‘The two simple elements of shape and colour form the basis for all my work. They provide an endless source of fascination and means of expression. For the past few years I have concentrated on creating imaginary landscapes using a variety of fluid paints and mediums with the act of pouring playing a vital part in describing a once thriving force - that of nature itself. ‘I find myself constantly challenged and delighted by its independent qualities that can only be controlled to a point, after that, it must be allowed to find its own level. When dried, the organic flow is arrested forever resulting in a unique creation - a collision of perfection and imperfection as in nature.’
Jane Emberson Elysium IV Mixed media, acrylic and solvent based paint on white painted canvas 100 x 80cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,350 (original price: ÂŁ1,700)
Jane Emberson Achilles II Mixed media, acrylic and solvent based paint on painted canvas 90 x 90cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,350 (original price: ÂŁ1,700)
Jane Emberson Xanthia Mixed media, acrylic and solvent based paint on white painted canvas 90 x 90cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,350 (original price: ÂŁ1,700)
Jane Emberson Galatea Mixed media, acrylic and solvent based paint on white painted canvas 100 x 100cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,450 (original price: ÂŁ1,800)
Jane Emberson Petros V Mixed media, acrylic and solvent based paint on white painted canvas 100 x 100cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,450 (original price: ÂŁ1,800)
Hatty Butler In Hatty Butler’s words: My work is about people. Exploring their vulnerability, capturing an honest and exposed resemblance, creating a vivid and forceful image. My portraits are not about the face alone, they portray and question the emotions and experiences behind it. I make decisions about my work based upon how I am feeling. I know a piece has been successful when it has challenged and confronted me, it comes together as a whole and is energetic and commanding. I choose to use oil paint, it is malleable, thick and creates an incredible texture. Using a pallet knife alongside this means that I can drag the paint and also become less precious about my work, as it forces me to make mistakes. Emotions, experiences and struggles. My aim is to convey these feelings via contemporary art, creating dynamic, vivid images. My love for texture, method and material helps me capture these emotions. I am passionate about using my art to celebrate unique and interesting people. Highlighting and embracing those who may normally be overlooked or criticised for being different. We live in a society where the abnormal is laughed at and my aim is to alter these outdated views. Art can be the most innovative and compelling form of providing change within our society. I challenge the viewer, encouraging them to look deeper into the painting than just the portrait itself, to raise internal issues and try to comprehend them.
Hatty Butler April Oil, pastel and spray paint on canvas. Framed. 160 x 143cm Sale price: ÂŁ2,950 (original price: ÂŁ4,000)
Hatty Butler Vulnerable Oil on paper, mounted onto board. Unframed. 134 x 95cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,200 (original price: ÂŁ1,600)
Hatty Butler Through the dark to a new beginning Oil and spray paint on canvas. Narrow white frame. 83 x 73cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,425 (original price: ÂŁ1,900)
Paul Minott Paul Minott worked as a leading graphic designer for over thirty years, working for numerous international design consultancies in London and abroad. He ran a successful partnership in London before embarking on a teaching career at Bath Spa University. He moved to Bath to devote more time to making art including painting, books, filmmaking, curation and his biggest passion, monoprinting. According to Paul, monoprinting takes him right back to the two fundamental appeals of graphic design: real ink on real paper, and a mechanical process that mediates between intention and realisation. Some of his prints are made by rolling and then removing areas of pure flat colour from the plate, others involve more painterly gestures. In addition, he often uses hand or laser-cut stencils either to hold or conceal areas of ink, which add a further embossed dimension to the prints. Occasionally the prints include collaged elements. In Paul Minott’s words: “Ultimately, my monoprints are all about experimentation. It’s like using an etching press to paint pictures in the dark; the magic that occurs between the blankets can never be entirely known beforehand, and one feels one’s way with each successive stage. Setting out with only a slight notion, often just a shape or a colour, one sets in motion a sequence of events that take on a life of their own. A finished print is resolved when the components coexist in either conflict or harmony. I never know which until it’s over, when it finally suggests something that was there all along.”
Paul Minott Topography Unique monoprint 1/1. Unframed. 57 x 76cm Sale price: ÂŁ275 (original unframed price: ÂŁ350)
Paul Minott Pastoral Unique monoprint 1/1. Unframed. 76 x 56cm Sale price: ÂŁ275 (original unframed price: ÂŁ350)
Paul Minott Citrus Unique monoprint 1/1. Unframed. 76 x 56cm Sale price: ÂŁ275 (original unframed price: ÂŁ350)
Paul Minott Super Moon Unique monoprint 1/1. Unframed. 57 x 76cm Sale price: ÂŁ275 (original unframed price: ÂŁ350)
Paul Minott A change of season Unique monoprint 1/1. Unframed. 57 x 76cm Sale price: ÂŁ275 (original unframed price: ÂŁ350)
Paul Bennett The Times described works by painter Paul Bennett as “…perfect brooding landscape…”. Paul Bennett says “The seascape and landscape paintings are inspired by memory and experience, and are developed using artistic intuition. They are not tied into any specific region or time, they are an eclectic synthesis of place, weather and season. I choose to capture and communicate my experience this way as it reflects life with its unceasing process of observing, experiencing, interpreting, storing – and ultimately – reflecting. The result I strive for is a unique and original visual experience that has captured not only the sense of somewhere/sometime, but also the more subtle notion of recollection. “Occasionally I refer to photography as a starting point and as a way to engage with the surface and begin the initial mark-making process. After this point, everything is an abstract interpretation of the memories I have and places I have experienced. This is all brought together with constant experimenting and I find the works are continuously evolving and influencing the next. “Oil paint is the medium that plays a big part in capturing the essence of a faded memory and lends itself nicely to the way I paint. The paint is applied to give the artwork itself a narrative and history, where the process of its creation can be glimpsed at in places – not dissimilar to the way in which the memory deals with the hazy recollection of a place once visited.”
Paul Bennett Sky Break Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm Sale price: £1,800 (original price: £2,250)
Paul Bennett Winters Rest Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,800 (original price: ÂŁ2,250)
Paul Bennett Desert Ghost Oil on canvas, framed 100 x 100cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,800 (original price: ÂŁ2,250)
Alexander Johnson Alexander Johnson grew up in a rural setting in West Sussex, just outside Chichester in the 1960’s and 70’s. His formative years were spent in the shadow of the South Downs walking and cycling around with complete freedom. After finishing Art College in Cardiff, he spent the bulk of his adult life living in cities – London, Barcelona, Nijmegen and most recently Brighton. Now he has ended up back in the countryside where he started, still in the shadow of the Downs in East Sussex, where he has built a studio in Laughton, a small village near Lewes. Since moving here in 2015, the environment has rekindled Alexander’s childhood memories of the old farm buildings and trees that were his playground as a child. Cycling and driving around in this new area over the last year has had a profound affect on his work. Buildings, trees and pictorial elements are climbing back into the canvasses to make their home amongst the abstract images. The new work is a collage combining memories from his youth with his new surroundings, as if time is elastic and the past can co-exist with the present. He finds it comforting that rural Sussex has changed so little over the last forty years, although cities are becoming homogenised and increasingly unrecognisable to him. Alexander’s work, even when abstracted, has always been about storytelling; setting down his own experiences and feelings, and trying to present them in a way that he hopes will evoke similar emotions in others. Alexander’s goal is simply to make others feel a sense of wonder and reflect on our own history and its influence on the landscape and the magic of our existence on earth.
Alexander Johnson Fuji Dream #1 Silkscreen print in a limited edition of 12. Unframed. 65 x 45cm Sale price: £195 (original price: £300)
Alexander Johnson Metropolis #1 Silkscreen print in a limited edition of 8. Unframed. 80 x 60cm Sale price: ÂŁ195 (original price: ÂŁ300)
Alexander Johnson Metropolis #2 Silkscreen print in a limited edition of 8. Unframed. 80 x 60cm Sale price: ÂŁ195 (original price: ÂŁ300)
Alexander Johnson Nimbus Silkscreen print in a limited edition of 12. Unframed. 40 x 60cm Sale price: ÂŁ195 (original price: ÂŁ250)
Alexander Johnson Riviera Silkscreen print in a limited edition of 12. Unframed. 40 x 60cm Sale price: ÂŁ195 (original price: ÂŁ250)
Ione Parkin RWA Ione Parkin is the co-founder and lead artist of the international art-science project Creativity and Curiosity, alongside the Scottish artist Gillian McFarland. Ione is engaging in conversations and collaborations with astrophysicists, cosmologists, solar scientists and planetary geologists. She is developing a growing body of artwork inspired by the rich imagery of space, and the on-going dialogue with researchers. Parallels of process have emerged between the artists and scientists – an excitement about uncertainty, ambiguity and anomaly – a desire not just to observe but to look beyond. This artist-led project explores the nature of interdisciplinarity within the practice of visual thinking. Ione Parkin’s large-scale paintings express her fascination about the early formation of the universe; massive clouds of cosmic dust and gas; vast webs of colour and shimmering light; solar dynamics; luminous visions of immensity. Her richly textured mixed-media works on paper respond to planetary surfaces, extremes of temperature and geological process. These resemble samples of the undiscovered terrain of distant moons – a fragment of an iron-rich formation; a young planet in the throes of intense volcanic activity; a surface texture of glacial ravines and fissures which echo the hyper-cold regions of other worlds or vast oceans of frozen Nitrogen. Royal West of England Academician Honorary Visiting Fellow, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester Grants: Arts Council England, Royal Astronomical Society, Hope Scott Trust
Ione Parkin RWA Evanescence Oil on canvas 80 x 70cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,260 (original price: ÂŁ1,800)
Ione Parkin RWA Dark Fusion Oil on canvas 76 x 76cm Sale price: £1,260 (original price: £1,800)
Ione Parkin RWA Fusion Oil on canvas 76 x 76cm Sale price: £1,260 (original price: £1,800)
Ione Parkin RWA Residue II Oil on canvas 50 x 50cm Sale price: £490 (original price: £700)
Ione Parkin RWA Residue Oil on canvas 50 x 50cm Sale price: ÂŁ490 (original price: ÂŁ700)
Ione Parkin RWA Rising Form III Oil on canvas 130 x 110cm Sale price: £2,765 (original price: £3,950)
Ione Parkin RWA Resurgence Oil on canvas 130 x 110cm Sale price: ÂŁ2,765 (original price: ÂŁ3,950)
Chuck Elliott Chuck Elliott has been working as a digital artist full time since 1992, after graduating from the old Hornsey School of Art in London. It continues to be an interesting journey. In Chuck’s words: About twelve years ago I decided to focus in on the idea of using digital drawing tools to create studies that explore line, light, colour and geometry. It seemed that the digital toolset offered an opportunity to advance the modernist study of geometric form into new, more complex, more intriguing areas than had previously been possible with pen and paint. Following the example of contemporary music production, digital data can be honed, remixed, layered, edited and sculpted, finessing final compositions in ways that are clearly analogous with modern film, music and photography production. Pure logical progression. The works I generate are large format C type photographic prints. Original digital drawings exposed onto photographic paper by laser light, developed, fixed and washed in the traditional manner. These C type prints are then bonded to clear perspex using the Diasec process. The glazed pieces can then be laser cut to shape, framed, or simply mounted directly to the wall. Alongside this main body of work I’m also exploring digital screen art, and 3D printing, which offer intriguing opportunities to add time, motion and sculptural form, to the drawings. As computer systems become faster and more powerful, so the opportunity to work with denser, more complex data sets increases, and as such it seems likely that the studies will become ever more intriguing over the coming years.
Chuck Elliott Blast FIRST / fractureRefract Metallic Lambda print mounted to clear Perspex and DiBond with a hidden alloy subframe Edition of 12, plus 2 APs 100 x 78cm Sale price: £2,200 (original price: £2,950)
Chuck Elliott Arpeggi / gilded Metallic Lambda print mounted to clear Perspex and DiBond with Perspex tray frame Edition of 12, plus 2 APs 94.5 x 78cm Sale price: £2,100 (original price: £2,800)
Chuck Elliott Chime / CHROMA Metallic Lambda print mounted to clear Perspex and DiBond with grey Perspex tray frame Edition of 12, plus 2 APs 70 x 90cm Sale price: £1,650 (original price: £2,200)
Chuck Elliott Torsion / silvered Metallic Lambda print mounted to clear Perspex and DiBond with hidden aluminium subframe Edition of 12, plus 2 APs 100 x 84cm Sale price: ÂŁ2,200 (original price: ÂŁ2,950)
Chuck Elliott Oriel / TWO / kandy chroma Metallic Lambda print mounted to clear Perspex and DiBond with hidden aluminium subframe Edition of 8, plus 2 APs 120cm diameter Sale price: ÂŁ2,950 (original price: ÂŁ3,950)
Plum Neasmith Plum Neasmith studied at the University of Gloucestershire for five years gaining a BA in Fine Art. As an undergraduate she won the prestigious Grant Thornton Travel Award. She currently lives and works in Cheltenham. In Plum Neasmith’s words: “The starting point for a painting is often an experience of place. The work and its meaning evolves in the studio through the action of distillation and translation. Process and chance are a fundamental part of the process as well as utilising the often slow, indirect and multi-layered nature of memory. The work is trying to remember something perhaps through the freezing of time, to reveal something new about a subject as well as attempting to capture its essence or illusory nature.” “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present only about the past” - Virginia Woolf “…to paint not the thing but the effect it produces” - Mallarme Plum Neasmith’s work has been shown widely throughout the UK including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal West Academy Open Exhibition, Hampstead Affordable Art Fairs and Bristol Affordable Art Fairs.
Plum Neasmith Verrocchio : The walls were hot Mixed media with gold leaf on panel with wooden tray frame 97 x 77cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,195 (original price: ÂŁ1,600)
Plum Neasmith Japan:the old present Mixed media, oil, cold wax and pigment on panel 80 x 80cm Sale price: ÂŁ1,195 (original price: ÂŁ1,495)