Summer 2023 Exhibition at Gallery Forty-Nine (Opens 20th May 2023)
Gallery Forty-Nine's upcoming exhibition will celebrate the approaching summer with whimsical prints by acclaimed Bridlington artist Estella Brown, original paintings by Giuliana Lazzerini and Martin Pearson, gold leaf fine art by Robert Pereira Hind, and upcycled silver jewellery by Carol Vickers.
For further details about the artworks included in the exhibition, including availability and prices, please contact Gallery Forty-Nine.
Estella Brown
Estella Brown was a highly regarded artist who lived in Bridlington for over 70 years and whose paintings vividly depict and celebrate her home town and the East Riding.
In her striking and ageless pictures, she captured the joy of the English seaside, town and country. Favouring tradition over modernity, Estella’s work evoked the beauty and innocence of a simple and unspoilt past. She rarely travelled outside her beloved Yorkshire – if she couldn’t cycle there, she wouldn’t go!
Yet ironically it was her paintings that voyaged further, with her picture of a Waterloo battle being selected and hung at The Royal Academy and her work appearing in galleries across the UK including Bridlington, Hull, Cambridge and London.
Estella Brown biography courtesy of Carraway Publishing.
Giuliana Lazzerini
Giuliana Lazzerini was born in Seravezza near Pietrasanta in Tuscany. She studied at the Istituto D'Arte Stagio Stagi in Pietrasanta, gaining a Master of Arts Diploma, and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara. She moved to the UK in 1973 and lives in Yorkshire.
The Tuscan landscape and childhood memories bear a strong influence on the artist's current work. In an earlier statement, she describes her first encounters with art in Italy as a child in her father's mosaic studio. These early perceptions, several years on, provide a language and a vocabulary for her pictures in terms of colour, surface, and scale, which she uses in the construction of her tapestry-like, interlocking, angular-surfaced village landscapes.
"My work is varied and often developed from an idea encountered during a journey that takes me in an unknown territory where I grow as an artist," says Giuliana. "I usually work in small series of paintings, where memory and imagination come to interplay. Time made me more familiar with the English Northern landscape and it finally has left a mark in some of my work, as I become more intrigued by its drama and atmosphere."
Martin Pearson
Martin Pearson's colourful, decorative artwork is on a scale suited to the domestic interior. He paints in layers, often starting off with thin colour that builds to more opaque layers as the painting proceeds, and uses a variety of mark-making techniques to develop textures and other effects.
"I sometimes employ stencils during the process, and this can help resolve the final composition," says Martin. "The resulting effect is that of one dimension viewed through another, or the interaction of different dimensions in a liminal space. In some paintings, realistic leaf-shapes and elements of pattern appear."
Robert Pereira Hind
Robert Pereira Hind’s mixed media series ‘Out of Eden’ is minimal and striking, evoking the gold leaf technique reminiscent of Gustave Klimt (Woman in Gold), and the 18th-century botanic flower renditions not painted but via a photographic technique cross pollinating art interpretations.These unique artworks are perfect in any setting being luxurious and beautifully decorative. They are made by using acrylic paint and organic photographic pigment layered onto gilded wooden backgrounds coated with shellac and art glazes.
An important element of the work is that each piece, over the years will slowly oxidise and mature in appearance. While the pictures sit on your wall, the golden background will eventually take on a light and very beautiful tarnish and over a period of 10-20 years become atmospheric and characterful, like nature against a moody sky. Each piece will bring colour and light to any environment as ambient light reflects from the works to exude a warm look and feel.
Carol Vickers
Carol Vickers is a Yorkshire-based silversmith. Working in solid silver, Carol gives antique cutlery and vintage buttons a new life as rings, necklaces, pendants, earrings, cufflinks, bangles and brooches. As a disabled artist, she campaigns for disability equality and has launched a collection of sensory jewellery for neurodivergent or anxious customers, and adjustable rings for people with arthritis or swollen hands.
You can often find Carol at vintage and antique fairs, hunting for materials and inspiration. Created by Carol is thrilled to have been selected as one of the #SmallBiz100 in 2022.