Irene Nelson

Bluets #1 (Abstract painting)

2021

Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...

Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...

Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...

Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...

Test Pattern 12 (Grey study) (Abstract painting) Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as ...

Test Pattern 4 (Grey Study) (Abstract Painting) Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider...

From ongoing series of "Gravity Bound Mounds". Each work is unique and arrives into a mound formation on a unique journey of mark making and subtle nuances...

Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with oil, acrylic, ink and watercolor. The work are 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in whi...

Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, ink and watercolor in white color on black watercolor paper 360g. The work are 12 by 16.5 inches in size, framed (black...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

Anthony Benjamin, 'Untitled', watercolour and acrylic on paper, image size 19cm x 13cm, framed size, 34.25cm x 29cm, signed and dated 2002 Provenance: From the Artist Estate A Galle...

Anthony Benjamin, 'El Badi', watercolour and acrylic on paper, image size 31cm x 29cm, framed size, 44cm x 41cm, signed and dated 2000 Provenance: From the Artist Estate A Gallery Certificate accompanies the painting Anthony Benjamin was a 20th Century abstract precisionist artist. Born in London in 1931 he was active throughout the second half of the 20th century. Experimental, hugely talented and obsessive, Benjamin moved fluidly between mediums and refused to be tied to any practise. He trained with the best, amongst others with Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and was recognised by the Royal Society of the Arts, his pier group and leading Galleries and Institutions who displayed and collected his work. Anthony Benjamin was also daring. At at time when the art-world was fixated with the St Ives Group of artists, Benjamin, who was part of this group, chose to leave. Although adept at making St Ives abstractionism it did not sit naturally with him. He did not see value in its art. Instead he sought to replicate abstraction in nature and was inspired by others who had also mastered this craft such as the Composer Brian Eno, with whom he later collaborated with and the Gnawa musicians of Morocco. A trained engineering draughtsman, Benjamin's formally perfect artworks are always infused with an air of technical experimentation and a poetic response to the natural world. The artist was inspired by pattern and obsessed with process. He was a sculptor, printmaker, painter, draughtsman and used collage, canvas, brass, perspex, steel, paper and anything that inspired him. Throughout his career, Benjamin made monumental paintings. In the studio he thought, pondered and considered every move. It was during these periods of contemplation that he would make warm up paintings that were beautifully loose, almost the antithesis in process to his large works. However it was in these smaller watercolour paintings...