DAVID BRAYNE RWS

David was born in 1954 and studied at Nottingham School of Art, Gloucestershire College of Art and Exeter University. He exhibits regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and has been awarded many notable prizes. He was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 2001 and recently curated the Poet and The Painter exhibition at Bankside Gallery on London's South Bank.

There is a poetry of perception expressed in David's work. His surfaces are chalky dry, reminiscent of early Renaissance frescoes, his colours, while subtly English invariably have a warm vibrant ochre singing out: creating a perfect harmonious palette. He often draws on the wide skies and expansive seas of his Fenland childhood and the hills and coasts of the West Country where he has lived for many years. Landscapes and interiors are both imagined and remembered, figures dissolve into light, land and sea appear blended together in a gentle linear exchange, a lyrical memory.

David mixes his own paint from raw pigments, building up layers of luminous glazes, sometimes working into the surface with pastel and using touches of gold and silver leaf.

                       
Grey Gulls                                                               Grey Gulls
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 34 x 45 cm                                            Image size: 34 x 45 cm
Paper size: 34 x 45 cm                                            Framed size: 61 x 71 cm
Unframed: £275.00                                                   Framed: £350.00

                             
Our House is Filled with Birds                                   Our House is Filled with Birds
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 34.5 x 46 cm                                          Image size: 34.5 x 46 cm
Paper size: 34.5 x 46 cm                                          Framed size: 62 x 72.5 cm
Unframed: £275.00                                                   Framed: £350.00

                      
Pink Light, Orange Dress                                         Pink Light, Orange Dress  
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 34.5 x 46 cm                                          Image size: 34.5 x 46 cm
Paper size: 34.5 x 46 cm                                          Framed size: 62 x 72.5 cm
Unframed: £275.00                                                   Framed: £350.00

                           
Wide Net I                                                              Wide Net I
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 34.5 x 26.5 cm                                       Image size: 34.5 x 26.5 cm
Paper size: 34.5 x 46 cm                                          Framed size: 59.5 x 49.5 cm
Unframed: £185.00                                                   Framed: £250.00

                            
Wide Net II                                                             Wide Net II
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 34.5 x 26.5 cm                                       Image size: 34.5 x 26.5 cm
Paper size: 34.5 x 46 cm                                          Framed size: 59.5 x 49.5 cm
Unframed: £185.00                                                   Framed: £250.00

THE PAIR: WIDE NET I and WIDE NET II 
Unframed: £350.00
Framed: £450.00

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MICHAEL CLARK

Michael Clark first walked into Colony Room off the street in 1977 (and promptly found himself back on it). This initial encounter with the notorious club, with its owner Muriel Belcher and of course with Bacon, introduced Clark to a world in which he would thrive, and which he would poignantly capture in his penetrating pictures over the coming years. Despite being thrown out, Clark became a friend of Belcher – who affectionately credited him as a ‘cheeky ****’ for his brazen first attempt at entry there - and of her business partner Ian Board, as well as Bacon. Indeed, it was through the encouragement of Bacon, Belcher and Board that Clark took up painting again, having earlier abandoned it. It was also through Bacon and Belcher that he was introduced to Valerie Beston, with whom Clark had the almost unheard-of honour of being on first-name terms. Very early on, she told him, ‘You have the gift, and I am going to support you,’ and began buying his pictures, including the first one he ever sold. This was her direct means of supporting artists, one that had helped other prestigious people such as Auerbach in its time. She also welcomed Clark often in the Malborough Gallery, showing him Bacon’s works, giving him tea as well as personal advice. Once she even called him into the gallery and presented him with a great surprise - the chance to view and to hold one of his favourite Cézanne paintings, an opportunity she had extended only to the ‘real painters’ – himself, Bacon, Auerbach, Freud.

It was Miss Beston, in turn, who suggested that Clark make a portrait of Bacon, a proposition that both artists found fantastic. She told Clark to call Bacon, and they arranged for a first sitting that sparked off a series of pictures from which Bacon’s gaunt and time-worn face stares. At the first sitting Clark arrived, as requested, early in the morning and was ushered by the artist into the house. Bacon, ever the consummate host, immediately offered Clark something to drink, but the catalogue of spirits, rather than hot drinks, that was reeled off stumped the younger, bleary-eyed artist, who compromised - as he thought - by asking for a beer. His considerate host then disappeared not to the kitchen but to an off-license, beer clearly not one of his stable supplies. Over the subsequent years, working from numerous sittings and photographs, Clark’s meticulous draughtsmanship captures the appearance but also the soul of the older tormented artist. It is a credit to his uncanny ability to record Bacon that several of these drawings were collected by the dedicated and discerning Miss Beston, as well as the British Museum.

Clark is a self-confessed Bacon fanatic, one who had the added benefit of being his friend and portraitist. Bacon’s influence threads through his works, reappearing even in his conceptual pieces. Be it in the appearance of wounds in his paintings, or in the location of a ‘sound sculpture’ outside a sex shop that Bacon used to frequent (only in part to cash his cheques), his ghostly spectre appears again and again, if only obliquely, in his figurative and conceptual works. For Clark is not a portraitist, although he has created many portraits of people ranging from film directors to the characters of Soho of yesteryear to Royalty to Pop royalty. He is a conceptual artist, for whom the painstakingly accurate depiction of the human face is only one of his means or media, and conversation with him ranges from the diverse influences of Rimbaud and Nauman as well as Holbein and Rembrandt.

The Edition of Francis Bacon by Michael Clark is published in association with Blessé Projects


                            
Francis Bacon                                                       Francis Bacon
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                        Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                        Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                          Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 42 x 29 cm                                          Image size: 42 x 29 cm
Paper size: 42 x 29 cm                                          Framed size: 63 x 50 cm
Unframed: £750.00                                                 Framed: £850.00

JACQUIE DENBY

Born in Yorkshire in 1939, Jacquie Denby studied at the Harrogate School of Fine Art and the Jacob Krammer College of Art.

Throughout her work Jacquie Denby distils the joys of the natural world, depicting the simple and to her, the most important elements of the landsape - the wind, earth, sky, moon and the stars - whether it is the beloved Yorkshire Dales she grew up in or Provence in Springtime.  And, it is the birds, symbolic of the spirits of nature, that lead us into her world.

Jacquie Denby has exhibited extensively in the North of England and Scotland and since 2005 Foss Fine Art represents her work in London.


                            
The Rowan Tree                                                      The Rowan Tree
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 34.5 x 27 cm                                          Image size: 34.5 x 27 cm
Paper size: 34.5 x 27cm                                           Framed size: 56 x 48 cm
Unframed: £190.00                                                   Framed: £275.00


                            
Under the Stars                                                       Under the Stars
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 34.5 x 27 cm                                          Image size: 34.5 x 27 cm
Paper size: 34.5 x 27cm                                           Framed size: 56 x 48 cm
Unframed: £190.00                                                   Framed: £275.00

                          
Winter Fields                                                           Winter Fields
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                          Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs                          Edition of 100 plus 10 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                            Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 29 x 25.5 cm                                          Image size: 29 x 25.5 cm
Paper size: 29 x 25.5 cm                                          Framed size: 51 x 46 cm
Unframed: £175.00                                                   Framed: £250.00


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JACK VETTRIANO

Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint.

In 1989, he submitted two paintings to the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day. The following year, an equally enthusiastic reaction greeted the three paintings, which he entered for the prestigious Summer Exhibition at London's Royal Academy and his new life as an artist began from that point on. Over the last twenty years, interest in Vettriano's work has grown consistently. There have been sell-out solo exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and New York. 2004 was an exceptional year in Vettriano's career; his best known painting, The Singing Butler was sold at Sotheby's for close to £750,000; he was awarded an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts and was the subject of a South Bank Show documentary, entitled 'Jack Vettriano: The People's Painter'.

From 1994-2007, Vettriano was represented by Portland Gallery in London but the relationship ended in June 2007. Since then, Vettriano has been focusing on a variety of private projects, including the launch of a new book, and painting of a portrait of Zara Phillips as part of a charity fundraising project for Sport Relief, the experience of which was captured in a documentary broadcast on BBC1 in March 2008. Vettriano divides his time between his homes in Fife, London and Nice.

2008 

                         
Blades                                                                   Blades
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                         Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 250 plus 25 Artist's proofs                         Edition of 250 plus 25 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                           Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 63.5 x 50.2 cm                                      Image size: 63.5 x 50.2 cm
Paper size: 84.6 x 67.5 cm                                      Framed size: 100 x 84 cm
Unframed: £750.00                                                  Framed: £975.00

                       
Blades II                                                                Blades II
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                         Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 250 plus 25 Artist's proofs                         Edition of 250 plus 25 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                           Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 50.8 x 40.6 cm                                      Image size:  50.8 x 40.6 cm
Paper size: 71.9 x 59.5 cm                                      Framed size: 87 x 74 cm
Unframed: £595.00                                                  Framed: £785.00

                        
On Parade                                                             On Parade
Limited edition Giclee print on paper                         Limited edition Giclee print on paper
Edition of 250 plus 25 Artist's proofs                         Edition of 250 plus 25 Artist's proofs
Signed and numbered by the Artist                           Signed and numbered by the Artist
Image size: 63.5 x 50.2 cm                                      Image size: 63.5 x 50.2 cm
Paper size: 84.6 x 67.5 cm                                      Framed size: 100 x 84 cm
Unframed: £750.00                                                  Framed: £975.00