THE FIGURATIVE SHOW 2015
Seven Different Painters—Seven Distinctive Styles
THE CONTEMPORARY FINE ART GALLERY
ETON
The Figurative Show 2015
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The Figurative Show 2015
Seven Different Painters—Seven Distinctive Styles
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David Eustace
Peter Howson OBE
Jonathan Robertson
Chung Shek
Heather Soutar
Tina Spratt
Graeme Wilcox
The Directors invite you to the private viewing of the
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Sunday March 22nd 2015, 11.30 am – 5.00 pm
at
31 High Street, Eton, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 6AX
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All paintings are from the artist’s studios
Champagne
The Exhibition continues for two weeks
The paintings may be viewed and purchased prior to the exhibition opening
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Saving The Light
David Eustace
8” x 10”
Oil On Board
Opposite pages
The Wobbly Table
10” x 8”
Oil On Board
Ship of Fools,
Uncharted Depths
12” x 12”
Oil On Board
The Keepers Dream
8” x 10”
Oil On Board
Steady
10” x 8”
Oil On Board
Ship of Fools, The Dance Goes On
12” x 12”
Oil On Board
British painter David Eustace was born in Birmingham in 1950. At
school his art teachers recognised his talent and encouraged him
to follow a career in art, but owing to financial constraints he was
forced to take up a carpentry apprenticeship. It was not until he
was 21 that he was able to return to education, when he took an Art
Foundation Course at Sutton Coldfield School of Art, Birmingham,
followed by a degree course in Fine Arts at Exeter College of Art
and teacher training at Leicester Polytechnic. After completing
his training David Eustace spent six years living and working as a
muralist in the USA.
Since returning to the UK in 1986 David has divided his time
between being a professional painter and playing music - for 25
years he was drummer in a blues band, Junkyard Angels, and he
now plays in a jazz quartet, Shufflebones.
David Eustace’s work has been exhibited throughout the UK, his
very successful solo shows including the Royal Albert Museum Art
Gallery, Exeter, Highgate Gallery, and the Rona Gallery, London.
David Eustace has also won a number of awards including
membership of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2003, and
in the same year he became winner of the RBA David Wolfers
Memorial Prize.
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Shepherds Delight
24” x 18”
Pastel
Powered
24” x 18”
Pastel
Peter
Peter Howson OBE
24” x 18”
Pastel
Madonna, Bob Geldof and David Bowie are all collectors of Peter Howson’s work. Peter Howson was a central figure in the ‘The New
Glasgow Boys’, a group formed in the 1980’s, working in Glasgow and influenced by this revolutionary, radical and important art movement.
This radical nature is clear from his career moves: he left the Glasgow School of Art at 17 to join the British Army, Lothian Branch of the Royal
Fusiliers, and travel the world. Later, he worked as a labourer and landscape gardener, growing to love body building.
This physicality is embodied in Peter Howsen’s art and his boldly delineated black and red figures are fearsome and overbearing. Howson
travelled to Bosnia in the 1990’s to work on canvasses for the Imperial War Museum’s war exhibition. He suffered hallucinations and dysentery,
but with typical gusto, returned to finish the commission and to salvage his mental health. Later, he worked with John Cox, the director
of Scottish Opera, on his production of Don Giovanni, creating a fiercely dark and original set to act as a backdrop to Giovanni’s wild and
debased life experiences.
Peter Howson is exhibited widely, by John McEnroe in his New York gallery amongst others. He is listed as one of the 500 most important
artists in Phaidon’s 20th Century Art book. His powerful, passionate, distinctive paintings are instantly recognizable to his large band of
collectors.
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Gang Culture
24” x 18”
Pastel
Blaire
24” x 18”
Pastel
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Camara de Lobos
Jonathan Robertson
22” x 24”
Oil On Canvas
He was born in Banff in 1947 and trained at Glasgow School
of Art. He has exhibited widely at home and abroad including
the Artists Union Gallery Moscow, Barbican, Royal Glasgow
Institute, Royal Scottish Academy, Scottish Society of Artists,
Smith Institute Sterling and the Mall Galleries, London. His
work is highly collectable and is now represented in the
institutional collections of Arthur Andersen and Co., Ernst
and Young, Scottish Television plc, Glasgow Art Gallery, the
Universities of Strathclyde and Stirling, Hilton Hotel and
Loretto School.
Jonathan is perhaps best known for his printmaking
techniques and has had shows in both the Glasgow and
Edinburgh print studios and a solo exhibition at the original
Print Shop in Glasgow. However, it is Jonathan`s recent oil
paintings that have brought an increasing following amongst
Thompson`s clients. These are colourful oils populated with
sturdy, naïve figures in narrative poses, each infused with a
natural wit and good humour
First Growth
14” x 12”
Oil On Canvas
Cyclist
12” x 12”
Oil On Canvas
Exhibitions
1983 One Man Show - Mitchell Theatre
1984 Two Man Show - Glasgow Print Studio
1987 One Man Show – Royal Scottish Automobile Club, Glasgow
1989 Three Person Show - Glasgow Print Studio
1995 One Man Show - The Original Print Shop, Glasgow
2000 Two Person Show – Thompson’s Gallery, London
2002 One Man Show – Contemporary Fine Art, Eton
2003 Two Person Show – Thompson’s Gallery, London
2004 One Man Show – Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall
2005 One Man Show – Contemporary Fine Art Gallery,Eton
2007 One Man Show – Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Eton
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Collections Include
Arthur Andersen & Co, Loretto School, Bon Secours Hospital, Motherwell District Council, Edinburgh Hospital, Napier College, Ernst &
Young, Scottish Housing Association, Fife Regional Council, Scottish Television plc, Glasgow Art Gallery, Stirling University, Hilton Hotels,
Strathclyde University, Kyle & Lochalsh District Council, Tennent Caledonian.
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Chung Shek
Chung Shek became interested in art during early childhood in the Netherlands and is largely self-taught. Original works by the likes of
Vermeer, Ingres and Bouguereau greatly influenced him and focussed the direction of his work towards the realistic genre of paintings. The
versatility of oils naturally gravitates him to using it as his preferred medium.
While his compositions are contemporary in style, they are firmly classical in execution. The modernity and high-impact of his work are
rooted in mastering traditional artistic techniques such as sfumato, chiaroscuro, the use of dramatic lighting effect and flamboyant and
richly saturated colour compositions.
This strong foundation he has gave him the confidence and motivation to produce and sell professional work by the time he reached his
mid-twenties.
Human figures and the female form is a recurring theme in traditional European paintings.
Fisher Boys
20” x 22”
Oil On Canvas
Gleaner
16” x 18”
Oil On Canvas
Company Class
40” x 40”
Oil On Canvas
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Before The Dance
Warm Light
30” x 30”
Oil On Canvas
36” x 36”
Oil On Canvas
Enpointe
36” x 36”
Oil On Canvas
Repose
40” x 30”
Oil On Canvas
Exhibitions.
Morning Repose
40” x 30”
Oil On Canvas
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20/21 ART FAIR ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART LONDON.
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Anticipation
Heather Soutar
36” x 36”
Oil On Canvas
Heather was born in Glasgow and has had a lifelong interest in
the arts. Although trained as a primary school teacher she now
teaches piano privately in Dundee, her home for more than thirty
years. With no formal art training, Heather has developed her
own style and method of painting which allows her to express the
idiosyncratic images which appeal to her. She enjoys the absurdities
of life which make us smile and look at ourselves in unexpected
ways. Her infuences come from several sources, including idyllic
childhood holidays on the south coast of England, her collection
of illustrated children’s books, classical music, the theatre and the
general quirkiness of everyday life. Several Scottish galleries show
Heather’s paintings and she has also exhibited at the Glasgow Art
Fair and the Affordable Art Fair in London. Many of her works are
held in private collections both in the UK and abroad.
Scotch Egg
20” x 20”
Oil On Canvas
Enpointe In Black
30” x 40”
Oil On Canvas
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Posh Nosh
24” x 24”
Oil On Canvas
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Tina Spratt
Tina Spratt was born in Somerset in 1976. She completed her
education at the University of Wolverhampton, graduating in
1998 with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Illustration.
However, Tina’s passion for painting and drawing the human figure
persuaded her to concentrate on a professional career in fine art.
Tina has previously exhibited works at the 1999 Royal Bath & West
of England Art Show, together with a highly successful debut at
the Maze Gallery in Cardiff that autumn. Since this debut, she has
featured on BBC Radio and on national television. She was also
selected to compete in the annual BP National Portrait Competition
in London and participated in the 2005 London Contemporary Arts
Fair. Her work was first debuted in Dublin in the OisÃn Gallery’s
Summer Event Exhibition in 2005.
Attracted to the methods of painters such as Lucian Freud and
Rembrandt, Tinas own approach involves emphasising light and
mood. Her present style has been developed through many
years of experimenting with palette, textures and perspectives—
although the inclusion of fabric within her compositions has always
been an enduring feature.
Once Upon A Beach
24” X 24”
Oil On Canvas
Choo Choo
12” x 24”
Oil On Canvas
Seaside Express
24” x 24”
Oil On Canvas
In the context of profound social and cultural change, artists
have employed radical approaches to address the body, as both
subject and object, and as a means of exploring themes and
individuality. The question of how to represent the human figure
has preoccupied artists since the earliest times. Many of the great
creative struggles of the modern era can be seen as attempts to
move beyond or away from studio conventions to achieve a more
authentic relationship with the human subject.
Technological advances in photography in the twentieth century
have led to its increasingly important and innovative role in artistic
expression - be it as the final creation or part of a process. Tinas
choice to photograph her subjects and reconstruct the image in
oil does not entirely result in a photographic likeness. Instead, she
captures an atmosphere and beautifully reveals private, transitory
moments.
Reminiscence
24” x 16”
Oil On Canvas
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Nude Back
Serenity
10” x 8”
Oil On Canvas
18” x 24”
Oil On Canvas
Sea Breeze
10” x 8”
Oil On Canvas
Sleeper In Red
13” x 18”
Pastel
After The Dance
12” x 10”
Oil On Canvas
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Spectator
Awards
10” x 10”
Oil On Canvas
Prizewinner Visual Art Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh. 2012
Prizewinner Paisley Institute Fine Art. 2009
Prizewinner Visual Art Scotland, City Art Centre, Edinburgh. 2009
Prizewinner Aberdeen Artist’s Annual Exhibition, 2008
Finalist Celeste Art Prize, London.2006
Prizewinner at Paisley Institute Annual Exhibition. 2006
Glasgow Art Club Fellowship award. 2004
Arthur Andersen Prize for Best Young Artist at RGI Annual Exhibition
1998.
Runner-up prize, Black Swan Publishers Award, London 1999.
The Cross Trust Award to finance new work.
Hope Scott Trust. Grant awarded to finance mixed-media work,
combining printmaking with painting.
Collections
Work held mainly in private collections in UK, USA and Canada.
Also in public collections in Petrezovodsk, Russia and the gulf state
of Qatar. Large painting in the Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters,
Edinburgh. Portrait of Mr & Mrs R. Conway displayed in Conway
Hall, London.
Commuter
10” x 10”
Oil On Canvas
Graeme Wilcox
Represented by the CFAG Gallery Eton since 1998.
Attended Glasgow School of Art 1989-93. Graduated BA (Hons) Fine Art. Exchange to Brighton College of Art, January - March 1992.
Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art, has continued practice as a painter, working in WASPS studios in the East End of Glasgow.
Exhibits regularly in London and throughout the UK, both in group shows and one-man exhibitions. In 2011 completed portrait commission
for newly opened Conway Hall in London. Recent work features people and animals caught in moments of action and/or emotion. Previous
work included a series of paintings depicting the human figure underwater.
Collaborated on a number of multi-media projects with Mischief-la-bas performance group and other artists, culminating in projects at the
Arches and Tramway in Glasgow and the Albany Theatre in London. Organised two large-scale mural projects, in collaboration with East End
Community Arts, for Greater Glasgow Health Board.
Devised and ran “Face to Face” photography project in the East End of Glasgow.
temporary public artwork at the East End Festival in Glasgow.
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This Arts Council funded project culminated in a
Dandy
16” x 16”
Oil On Canvas
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Exhibitions (selection)
Supporter
2012
16” x 16”
Oil On Canvas
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Business Traveller
10” x 10”
Oil On Canvas
2005
2004
Visual Arts Scotland. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Eton
Royal Portrait Society. Mall Galleries, London
RGI Annual Exhibition. Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Summer Exhibition. Medici Gallery, Cork St. London
Two Man show. Medici Gallery, London
Group Show. Galerie van Campen, Antwerp
Caledonian Show, CFAG Eton.
The Portrait Exhibition. Blackheath Gallery, London
RSA Open. Edinburgh
“From Life” Collins Gallery, Strathclyde University,
Glasgow
National Open Art Competition, Chichester
Chase Art Show, Royal Academy, London
“Recent Paintings” Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Group Show, Galerie van Campen, Antwerp.
One Man Show, Medici gallery, London
Chase Art Show, Royal Academy of Art, London
Aberdeen Artist’s Society, Aberdeen
Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London
One Man show, Medici gallery, London
Summer show, Beaux Arts gallery, Bath
Two man show at Medici gallery, London
Celeste Art Prize exhibition, London
RGI Annual Exhibition, Glasgow
London Art Fair, Islington, London
“Under the Surface” Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
The Nude at Medici Gallery, London
Chase charity exhibition. Royal Academy, London
RGI Annual Exhibition, McClellan Galleries, Glasgow
Summer Exhibition at Blackheath Gallery, London
Back cover
Frank 1
8” x 8”
Oil On Canvas
Frank 3
14” x 14”
Oil On Canvas
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Frank 2
10” x 10”
Oil On Canvas
Frank 4
14” x 14”
Oil On Canvas
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ETON
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