Gloucester Room - January-February 2023

GLOUCESTER ROOM

A changing display of artworks by artists including Dragica Carlin

Yorgos Papadopoulos

Victor Pasmore

Sam Wood

Joanne Yulan

Mondays to Saturdays 10am – 6pm

Sundays 11am – 5pm

5 New Cavendish Street London W1G 8UT 020 7935 1114

info@gloucesterroom.com

WORKS IN OIL

"The swirls in my paintings hold a symbolic connotation - there is a universal quality to them and as such, they are somewhat timeless and formless They come and go, captivating our perceptions of them even when they are motionless. To me they reflect the essence of being.”

- Dragica Carlin

Dragica Carlin is an independent painter who lives and works in London. She studied at Chelsea College of Art where she obtained a BA in painting, followed by a Masters degree.

In 2008 she was awarded the Abbey Painting Award, which led to an artist residency and fellowship at the British School in Rome Dragica works with galleries, dealers and art consultancies. Her artwork is regularly commissioned for prestigious corporate and residential projects globally.

Image: Site specific installation at The Lanesborough, Knightsbridge, London

Restructuring Swirls, Series 7

Oil paint on panel

Presented in a custom built, circular tray frame with sprayed soft grey finish

Framed dimensions: 125 cm diameter

Price framed: £9,500

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Dimensions: 97 x 97 cm

Price framed: £7,000 SOLD

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Two Swirls, Series 7 Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm

Price framed: £7,000

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Blue Swirl, Series 3 Oil on canvas

Dark & Light Swirls, Series 1

Oil on canvas

Framed Dimensions: 49 x 63 cm

Price framed: £2,900

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Framed Dimensions: 72 x 55.5 cm

Price framed: £3,250

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Dark & Light Swirls, Series 2

Oil on canvas

SPRING BLOSSOMS

‘I had already completed a degree in Interior Design and I was studying ceramics at London’s Royal College of Art when I broke a piece of laminated glass. Instead of seeing the breakage as a mistake, I was blown away by the results. I began smashing glass deliberately and putting light behind it I’ve been doing this type of artwork professionally for 20 years now, but if not for my accident with the glass sheet, I might well have been a ceramicist.’

- Yorgos Papadopoulos

Cypriot-born Papadopoulos is a true artist, but he’s not someone who fits description easily. ‘Glass is my canvas, hammers are my brushes,’ he says. And, in fact, his breathtakingly beautiful artworks are actually smashed sheets of glass that are treated with sandblasting, glass pigments, gold leaf, enamels, silicone gels and even – by accident

droplets of his own blood.

Spring Blossoms Glass, silicone & pigments

Dimensions: 70 x 70 cms

Price: £8,760

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BEYOND THE EYE I

Victor Pasmore was a British painter, printmaker, and maker of constructions who was unusual in having achieved eminence as both a figurative and an abstract artist. After early experiments with abstraction he reverted to naturalistic painting, and in 1937 he combined with William Coldstream and Claude Rogers in forming the Euston Road School In the late 1940s he underwent a dramatic conversion to pure abstract art, and by the early 1950s he had developed a personal style of geometrical abstraction.

As well as paintings he made abstract reliefs, partly under the influence of Ben Nicholson. His earlier reliefs had a hand-made quality but later, in using transparent perspex, he gave them the impersonal precision and finish of machine products Through work in this vein he came to be regarded as one of the leaders of Constructivism in Britain. Later paintings are less austere and more organic.

Pasmore was an influential teacher, notably at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne (now Newcastle University), where he was head of the painting department, 1954–61 The ‘basic design’ course he taught there (based on Bauhaus ideas) spread to many British art schools. He was also much concerned with bringing abstract art to the general public, notably as consulting director of urban design (1955–77) for the southwest area of Peterlee New Town, County Durham. His most personal contribution there is the Apollo Pavilion (1963–70), which he described as ‘an architecture and sculpture of purely abstract form’.

In his later career Pasmore was also a prolific printmaker. He won many honours and Kenneth Clark described him as ‘one of the two or three most talented English painters of this century’

Beyond the Eye I

Lithograph, edition of 50 Presented in natural cherry wood box frame

91 x 82.5 cm

Edition No. AP II/V

Signed with initials in pencil

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NEW WORKS IN SOFT PASTEL

'When I look at unpeopled landscapes, empty rooms, or imagined spaces I am thinking about what has been left out, these omissions are often at the centre of why I make work‘

- Sam Wood

Gloucester Room is delighted to present a series of new works in oil paint and soft pastel on paper by artist and illustrator Sam Wood.

Since graduating from St Martins in 2012, Wood has established himself amongst a new generation of young British artists who are moving away from the recent dominance of abstract painting in contemporary art toward a new form of allegorical figuration

Central to Wood’s practice is the importance of drawing- both in dry and wet mediawhere broad brushstrokes of diluted oil paint underpin lyrical linework in soft pastel. The immediacy of Wood’s mark making demonstrates a highly responsive eye that captures any given subject with an economy of means Rendered in joyful, saturated colours the resultant works radiate effects of light that ripple across the paper, creating a sense of restless energy as lively as the natural subjects they depict.

Since 2018 Sam Wood has presented solo exhibitions with David Collins Studio and Shreeji News, with a forthcoming show at TM Gallery, Kings Cross in January 2023

Since 2018, he has worked collaboratively with luxury brands including Harrods, Liberty, Bryan O’Sullivan Studio, Atelier 27 – Paris, and Ennismore. He regularly undertakes large scale commissions for both corporate and residential projects and has work represented in private collections internationally.

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented mounted onto linen and framed in a bespoke design frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 110.5 x 81 cms

Price framed: £2,950

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The Laddershed at the Firehouse

The Firehouse Carpet

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented mounted onto linen and framed in a bespoke design frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 110.5 x 81 cms

Price framed: £2,950

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Allamanda Cathartica Hendersonii

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 32 x 41 cms

Price framed: £950

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Wet Leaves - Kew Garden Series

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 32 x 41 cms

Price framed: £950

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Sarracenea Juthatip Soper

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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An Unknown Flower

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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Trichosanthes Kirilowii

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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Agastache Mexicana

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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Tupistra Aurantiaca

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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An Unknown Tree

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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An Unknown Palm I

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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Quercus Rubra

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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Actinidia Chinensis

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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An Unknown Palm II

Oil paint & soft pastel on Fabriano Rosaspina paper

Presented in a natural walnut box frame

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 34.5 x 44.5 cms

Price framed: £950

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HERBARIA SERIES

"My abstract paintings are inspired by calligraphy. My process is to dissect words, and their various elements, explore the study of positive and negative spaces and reconstruct them as new works By removing the need for symbols to convey a message, the work then begins to explore free space, time, movement and interconnectivity"‘

- Joanne Yulan

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2001, Joanne Yulan Jong has worked as a fashion and textile designer, creative director and illustrator, dividing her time between Milan and London. Her design work has always been informed by her eye for simple, elegant forms and a restricted palette of colours.

Her passion for drawing, often with inks and charcoals, has led her back to creating art in its purest form - painting Her paintings and drawings, using traditional media such as inks, watercolours, charcoals and oils to industrial floor varnish, often reflect her Chinese heritage. She identifies herself, as an artist, using her Chinese name, Yulan.

Yulan’s latest series of works in oil on gesso panel, titled ‘Herbaria,’ demonstrate a transformation of her more calligraphic works into abstracted botanical studies that pay homage to the artist’s father- a renowned botanist - and his study of plant genetics from research trips to the forests of South East Asia

Herbaria I

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

Price framed: £985

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Oil paint on gesso panel

Herbaria II

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

Price framed: £985

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Oil paint on gesso panel

Herbaria III

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

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Oil paint on gesso panel

Herbaria IV

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

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Oil paint on gesso panel

Herbaria V

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

Price framed: £985

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Oil paint on gesso panel

Carousel VI

Presented in a 24 ct. oil gilded box frame with custom, rounded corners and hand painted interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 44 x 44 cms

Price framed: £1,250

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Painted collage on handmade paper

Carousel IV

Painted collage on handmade paper

Presented in a 24 ct. oil gilded box frame with custom, rounded corners and hand painted interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 44 x 44 cms

Price framed: £1,250

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Black Herbaria I

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

Price framed: £985

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Oil paint on gesso panel

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

Price framed: £985

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Black Herbaria II

Oil paint on gesso panel

Black

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

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Herbaria III

Oil paint on gesso panel

Presented in a dark stained, oak box frame with gilded sight edge and linen wrapped interior

Glazed with UV filtering, anti-reflective glass

Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 38.5 cms

Price framed: £985

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Black Herbaria IV

Oil paint on gesso panel

All works listed are available for purchase on receipt of this catalogue.

To arrange a viewing or to enquire about reserving or acquiring any of the artworks, please call the gallery on 020 7935 1114 or email info@gloucesterroom.com.

Dimensions are quoted in cms and are for the artworks including their frames.

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