ANNE-MARIE BUTLIN
Tuesday 4 July
Please join us for a special evening of cocktails created by the Head Cocktail Maker of Rules Restaurant, London, Brian Silva.
NEW WORK
My flower paintings attempt to capture the quiet transitory moments which make any planted space such an oasis of calm. Sometimes I want to convey the abundance of nature by creating a tapestry of marks and colour; and at other times I want the image to be simpler, emphasizing the unique shapes and elegant structures of a plant by blocking out the background.
With our current climate concerns, garden design is increasingly naturalistic in its use of plants, and I try to reflect this in my paintings, drawing inspiration from my own small space but also visits to gardens like Chelsea Physic Garden, Oxford Botanic Garden, Great Dixter and Sissinghurst. More recently I’ve been really drawn to wildflowers both in urban spaces and the countryside.
Anne-Marie Butlin, 2023
May Border - Iris Flowers oil on linen – 60 x 60cm
Blush Anemones
oil on linen – 40 x 40cm
Deep Maroon Hellebores
oil on board – 20 x 20cm
Narcissi and Clematis in a Jam Jar oil on board – 20 x 20cm
Early Narcissi oil on linen – 50 x 50cm
Summer Afternoon
oil on linen – 90 x 120cm
August Garden
oil on linen – 120 x 130cm
Little
First Snowdrops
Forget-me-Nots oil on linen – 30 x 30cm
Summer Day on the Coast Path (Anglesey) oil on linen – 30 x 30cm
Early Summer Garden -White Alliums oil on linen – 76 x 101cm
Still Life with Anemones
oil on linen – 50 x 50cm
oil on linen – 90 x 120cm
oil on linen – 76 x 101cm
Foxgloves
oil on linen – 90 x 120cm
BIOGRAPHY EDUCATION
Harrow College of Art: Foundation Course
Loughborough College of Art: Fine Art BA Hons
Middlesex University: PGCE Art and Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS from 1995 - present
Anna-Mei Chadwick Gallery, Fulham; Linda Blackstone Gallery, London;The Haberdashery, Crouch End, London; Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth; Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford; Thackeray Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS from 1988 - present
Nottingham Castle Museum, Loseby Gallery, Leicester; The City Gallery Leicester, ‘Eleven Artists’, Leicestershire; Royal Academy of Arts, London Summer Exhibition; Soc. of Women Artists Open Westminster Gallery, London; Anna-Mei Chadwick Gallery, London; Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London; Foyles Art Gallery Foyles, London; Linda Blackstone Gallery; Royal College of Art, London Art for Youth; Contemporary Art Group Air Gallery, London; Battersea Library Art Gallery, London; Kate Howe Fine Art, London; Moran-Dervan Fine Art, New York; CCA Galleries, Farnham; The Royal Society of British Artists Mall Galleries, London; Josie Eastwood Fine Art; Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth; Iona House Gallery, Woodstock; Royal Academy of Arts London, Summer Exhibition; Gallerytop, Derbyshire; Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge; Gorstella Gallery, Cheshire; Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London; Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford; ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London; Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance; Thackeray Gallery, London
PRESS
Featured numerous times Artists and Illustrators Magazine from the ‘Masterclass’ feature, to being published on the front cover.
Front Cover: Bramble Flowers – oil on board – 40 x 40cm
Line of Trees - Suffolk – oil on linen – 30 x 40cm
First Published in 2023 by Thackeray Gallery Ltd, 18 Thackeray Street, Kensington, London.
Copyright © 2023 Thackeray Gallery Ltd
Photographs by Douglas Atfield