Jo Barrett ‘Still Life with Cherries and Chinese Vase’ oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm
Front: Pierre-Yves Russo ‘Sugar Duster, Redcurrants, Peaches’ oil on panel 33 x 27 cm Back: Tom Hughes ‘Jars with purple and grey paint’ oil on board 17.8 x 21.5 cm
Still Life Exhibition Featuring work by Jo Barrett, Andrew Holmes, Tom Hughes, Anna Paik, Barbara Richardson RBA, and Pierre-Yves Russo
10 June – 8 July 2014
Medici Gallery requests the pleasure of your company at the Private View 6.00 – 8.00pm, Tuesday 10 June
Medici Gallery
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Jo Barrett
‘Still Life with Cherries and Bowl’ oil on canvas 80 x 120 cm
Jo Barrett’s paintings focus on still life, capturing the form, light and atmosphere created by carefully selected objects and the space they inhabit. Barrett’s paintings have a contemporary, formal approach to the subject while evoking the palette and atmosphere of the 18th century Dutch still life tradition. She has distilled this influence into minimal and structured arrangements, where folds in the tablecloth and diffused forms in the background play an essential role in the final works. This balance of traditional and new, combined with her meticulous observation of detail, enable her work to stand out from the photo-realist genre. Lighting is key in Barrett’s work.The subtle, shifting tones and colours within interlocking shadows, provide as much substance and compositional structure as the objects themselves. It is from these perfectly balanced compositions that we can then find the finely studied reflections and textured surfaces that bring the objects to life. Barrett’s contemporary approach to her work, grounded in traditional influences, creates timeless paintings that are simultaneously contemplative and powerful.
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‘Still Life with Hanging Lemon and Bowl’ oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm
‘Still Life with Pear and Flower Vase’ oil on canvas 80 x 120 cm
‘Still Life with Pomegranante and Bowl’ oil on canvas 78 x 120 cm
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Andrew Holmes Born in Kent, UK (1959),Andrew Holmes gained a Graphic Arts Degree in Cornwall, which lead to a successful career in London over many years as an illustrator and art director. In 2008 Andrew decided to divide his time between projects as both a painter and an illustrator. In 2009 he exhibited his representational work in the Royal Institute of Oil Painters annual show and has since returned to the Mall Gallery with the New English Art Club and the ROI.
‘untitled (pink)’ oil on canvas 38 x 6 cm
‘cake or cake’ oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm
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‘oil sketch (innocence)’ oil on paper 40 x 50 cm
‘lemon meringue’ oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm
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Tom Hughes Open Exhibitions The BP Portrait Award 2014 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013,14 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2013 New English Art Club 2013 Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2014 Royal Society of British Artists 2013,14 Royal Institute of Oil Painters 2013 Royal West of England Academy 2012,13 Bath Society of Artists 2013,14 The Bristol Prize 2013 Awards Bristol Fine Art Prize – The Bristol Painting Prize 2013
‘Jars with White and Pink Paint’ oil on board 17.5 x 21.5 cm
‘Studio stuff with lightbulb and toothbrush’ oil on board 45.7 x 60.9 cm
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‘Deer Skull with Books’ oil on board 76.2 x 45.7 cm
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Anna Paik Born in Seoul, South Korea, Paik studied drawing and painting with the leading figurative American painters, Sidney Goodman and Will Barnet at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Honoured with merit scholarships, Paik also won numerous prestigious prizes including the highly coveted William Cresson European Travelling Prize, Benjamin West Prize and Thomas Eakins Prize among others. Paik had exhibited in New Orleans, New York and Philadelphia before her subsequent move to London due to her marriage to concert pianist Leon McCawley in 1997. Along with solo exhibitions in London, Paik has participated in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Annual Exhibition, New English Art Club at the Mall Galleries, the Summer Exhibition at RA, BP Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, Aberdeen Art Gallery and the Garrick/Milne Prize exhibitions at Christie’s in London.
‘Wishing Well’ oil on linen canvas 30 x 40 cm
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In 2003 Paik won the first prize in the Garrick/Milne Prize, a national painting competition, for her painting titled “Rehearsal at RADA”, voted unanimously by the body of jury members which included both the previous Surveyor and the present Surveyor to the Queen’s Pictures.The winning painting now hangs in the Garrick Club's Permanent Art Collection in London. Paik’s favourite subject matters are nudes, still-life and portraiture. In pursuit of paintings of depth and timelessness, always experimenting, Paik works to capture the lasting power of life with personal symbolism.
‘Moon Jar 1’ oil on linen canvas 90 x 85 cm
‘Moon Jar 2’ oil on linen canvas 90 x 85 cm
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Barbara Richardson RBA Born in 1944, Barbara Richardson studied at Chelsea School of Art from 1975 to1979 and gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. At Chelsea she was awarded the Christopher Head Scholarship and represented the college at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Since then she has won many other awards (listed below) and, in addition to numerous exhibitions at private galleries, has shown at the Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Royal
Awards The Gordon Hulson Memorial Prize 2012 Keepers Choice, RBA Exhibition 2011 The de Laszlo Medal 2007 UBS Prize 2004 Davison Award for Best Group of Paintings 2003 Edward Wesson Award for Watercolour 1999 Davison Award for Oil Painting 1996
Academy of Art Summer Exhibitions, New English Art Club, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Oil, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Watercolour Society, The London Group, Singer & Friedlander / Sunday Times Art competition and the Discerning Eye. Richardson was elected a full member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1998.
‘Still Life with Silver Sugar Bowl’ oil on board 14.2 x 17 cm
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‘A Few Pots’ oil on board 18.5 x 23 cm
‘Silver Bowl with Checks’ oil on board 14.5 x 18 cm
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Pierre-Yves Russo Pierre-Yves Russo was born in 1967 in the Ile de France region, and grew up near Auvers Sur Oise, in the same countryside whose colours and shapes inspired Corot, Manet, Pissaro and Van Gogh. A visit to an exhibition of Impressionist work at the age of 14 proved to be a revelation and a turning point in his life, and it was at this stage that he decided to devote himself to painting. He was fascinated by the way the fugitive qualities of light had been captured and fixed on canvas, the hay stacks, the fields of wheat and glittering water all perfectly recreated in all their vitality. A neighbour, Robert Asseman, who was a renowned painter and musician, took Pierre-Yves under his wing and played a pivotal role in his discovery of art, philosophy and history. In 1985, Russo enrolled at the Sorbonne to study pictoral theory and technique under the direction of the philosopher Michel Guiomar, and five years later, he gained admittance to the French Institute for the Restoration of Works of Art, famous for training restorers for work at high profile French national art collections and museums. His course there lasted for a further six years during which he received an intensive education in art history, theory and above all, the techniques of the Old Masters which had a profound and permanent effect on his work. In 1992 he took the decision to become a full-time painter and his first still lifes were shown to great acclaim in multiple exhibitions, and earned him numerous prizes. Russo’s paintings are widely collected and can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
Biography 2014
Exhibition with XX century’s Master at MATIGNON Gallery, Paris.
2013
Medici Gallery, London. Art fair “Art Beijing”
2010
Medici Gallery, London.
2004
Solo exhibition, Bréheret Gallery.
1998
Solo exhibition, Bréheret Gallery.
1996
Solo exhibition, Bréheret Gallery.
1995
Bréheret Gallery, ParisVI. Group exhibition “Poirier et ses amis”, at Le Poiré-sur-Vie, curated by Michelle Boulet.
1994
Michelle Boulet Gallery, ParisVIII.
1992
Autumn Fair Paris (at the Grand Palais).
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1990-1992 Exhibited as a special guest at various art fairs. Won first prize at shows in Taverny, Barbizon, Pontoise, Plouescat,Quincy-sous-Sénart and Tournan-en-Brie, with the city of Tournan acquiring a still life for its permanent collection. 1990
Started working at the French Institute for the Restoration of Artworks (IFROA), where he deepened his knowledge of the painting techniques of the Old Masters.
1989
Gained a Masters degree in Aesthetics at the Sorbonne, presenting “The ancient masters’ pictorial matter”, under the direction of Michel Guiomar.
1986
First solo exhibition in Brittany.
‘Sugar Duster, Redcurrants, Peaches’ oil on panel 33 x 27 cm
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