Haghighi is a self-taught, versatile artist who has participated in over 70 international group and 40 solo shows. Haghighi’s paintings are mostly oil on canvas and focus on his strong cultural traditions as well as his interest in the changing world of today. In his paintings, he has quite often questioned the attitudes, fears, conflicts, incompatibilities and unwritten rules which have formed our environment and our behaviour within it. OSG is thrilled to be hosting A Gallery’s artist Haghighi’s work once again as one of our captivating gallery rentals this year.
[Image: Untitled, Raoof Haghighi]
James Hamilton has been painting quietly for nearly twenty years, beside his career as an art gallery curator and director, and, since the early 1990s, biographer and art historian. His spirited watercolours have vivacity and charm, with a quirky, unfamiliar eye on landscape form and structure.
They are antidotes to the work of his beloved Turner, Gainsborough and Constable, Hamilton's way of getting away from the presence of these famous, world-shaping colossi. As one critic has said of James Hamilton's work, 'your paintings make me happy'. What better recommendation can there be?
[Image: Sea and Rocks, Narja, James Hamilton]
OSG are pleased to exhibit Marcus Hodge’s second solo show. His captivating paintings depict polo in Jaipur, scenes on the Nile and British racing at Ascot and Newmarket. ‘Each painting strives to be unique as accident and chance combine with intention.’ In each location he visits, Marcus captures the dynamism of the scene and his work overflows with vitality both in his rendering of movement and colour.
[Image: On the Turn, Marcus Hodge]
Wiltshire artist Philip Shaw aka the “Tall Chin” captures simple, characteristic and fun portraits of children, pets, houses and wildlife in watercolour and oils.
Philip’s career has taken him all over the globe, but it was his family roots in Kenya that led him to embark on an adventurous journey running safaris, learning to track animals with the Maasai and marketing several businesses in both Kenya and Uganda, as well as South Sudan.
[Image: Strokeside, Philip Shaw]
Maze is an Anglo-French artist currently living and working in South West France where she evolved her style to work in pastel as well as oil and gouache. OSG are thrilled to exhibit over 30 works depicting the energy and colours of the vineyard thought the year. Much of her recent work has been in pastel, specifically pastels inherited from her grandfather, the French post-impressionist Paul Maze. ‘Like my grandfather, I also have become spellbound by this captivating medium. From this moment on, my work is primarily in pastels.’
[Image: Full Summer Flush, Jeanne Maze]
We are delighted to exhibit the bronze sculptures of Zoë Carmichael and the photography of Ripley. Zoë Carmichael is an award-winning sculptor, her work focuses on animals, particularly horses, and she uses the Lost Wax Method of bronze sculpture taught at Studio Galleria Romanelli in Florence.
Ripley is a British photographic artist who creates artworks using high-resolution medium-format photography in combination with extensive work in post-production. His most recent show was exhibited across the country from Floors Castle to Blenheim Palace.
OSG are pleased to exhibit a series of landscape paintings from Jonathan Armigel Wade. The celebrated artist Paul Maze used to say you have to look for the curve in any landscape, and Wade has excelled in this. Indeed the word ‘curvispective’ has been invented for him. It enables Wade to excel in his often quirky paintings of British life and landscapes, something so close to his heart.
Lucy de Roeper is a British artist based in London who uses emotional response to the world around her as the main source of inspiration. Lucy aims to push painting towards abstraction, whilst relying heavily on process and experimentation, but never neglecting observation.
She has a particular interest in surface and texture, often using less traditional mediums such as real sand, beeswax and material to recreate a feeling of place or situation. She aims to recreate imagery that resonates with her true inspiration, the natural world, often painting from memory.
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