SOLD!!! Happiness is selling a painting!!

SOLD!!! Happiness is selling a painting!!

The need to open my bathroom window to let the steam out v the fear of the pesky squirrel making a return visit to find somewhere to hide his nuts is very real.

Started a new little painting of Battersea Power Station from pimlico. Need to play with it some more but enjoying the challenge of capturing the winter light.

'Vase of Flowers.' (1953) Dorothy Mead was taught by David Bomberg and became a founding member of the Borough Group, its output distinguished by angular, expressionist, dense brushwork. She enjoyed critical success showing alongside Hockney and Bridget Riley.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Arguably the most famous painting of the 21st Century.

Started a new little painting of Battersea Power Station from pimlico. Need to play with it some more but enjoying the challenge of capturing the winter light.

In Felix Vallotton's 'Honfleur in Fog,' (1911) he has chosen an unusual viewpoint by looking down from Mont-Joli to the west of the town and restricted his palette to a few colours; the sandy yellow and dark green lift the mood of the otherwise gloomy atmosphere.

There is, as there almost always is, a sale over at Inprnt - 35% OFF all my prints. www.inprnt.com/gallery/this... #ArtPrints #SciFi

An alla prima self portrait selfie portrait. I wanted to see what I could paint quickly rather than my usual slower layers of paint. I'm very satisfied with the fabric and flowers. Quick and definite marks. Stropy face though 😂

The Writer. Oil on canvas. A portrait painting of my friend Rebecca Callard. Commissions are back open in January so please get in touch if you are at all interested.

A large portrait I'd just finished this time last year. I loved getting to grips with the complexity of the dress and subtlies of the background. Oil on linen.

Namaste - oil on smooth canvas. Some sunshine to get us through the dark days. Another commission from recent years! #art #portrait

'Trieste Harbour.' 1907 was an important year for Egon Schiele. He was still a student at the Vienna Academy and had outgrown its doctrines and its tutors. It was the year he first got to know Gustav Klimt, 'through' whom, as he later said, he was to reach his own unique style.

The Writer. Oil on canvas. A portrait painting of my friend Rebecca Callard. Commissions are back open in January so please get in touch if you are at all interested.

In this 1956 portrait by Graham Sutherland, the greater portion of the canvas is filled with the novelist and music critic Edward Sackville-West's head and shoulders; the closeness magnifies the sense of familiarity between the viewer and the viewed.

Portrait of Auguste Rodin by Gertrude Käsebier, ca. 1908

I loved painting this double commission for a friend of her girls when they were small. It's a challenge to paint two (nearly) identical paintings this tiny. 10cm x 10cm oil on canvas board.

Otto Dix's etchings of his eye witness accounts of WW1 were made in 1924, in them he manages to hold at bay the powerful impulses towards the apocalyptic, the allegorical, the visionary, the panoramic. This self-portrait was made in 1913 on the eve of turning 22.

Here they are side by side

I loved painting this double commission for a friend of her girls when they were small. It's a challenge to paint two (nearly) identical paintings this tiny. 10cm x 10cm oil on canvas board.

A very cold but sunny walk! Happy Christmas ✨

To show size and a better colour representation of that yellow as it suddenly looks so bright in the original photo. Oil on linen 30 x 40cm

After receiving several requests I am looking forward to the New Year when I will be running my Hidden River Effra and the Stink Pipes walk again on Saturday 10th January. Com and learn all about the river we can no longer see that flows beneath our feet through Herne Hill and Brixton. 1/3

A little study I did using oil on paper to try out a new painting medium. It is based on a frame from A History of Violence which is a film that lingered in my imagination after I originally saw it at the cinema.

Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.

SOLD!!! The best feeling to know my work has connected with another person so much so they want to own it. I'll miss Miguel in my studio but I'm so happy he has a home! Miguel. Oil on canvas.

Happy winter solstice! My self portraits are a way of documenting my life at different stages. Looking back I can have compassion for how far I have come. Midwinter 2020. Oil on canvas. 50 x 60cm

Happy winter solstice! My self portraits are a way of documenting my life at different stages. Looking back I can have compassion for how far I have come. Midwinter 2020. Oil on canvas. 50 x 60cm

SOLD!!! The best feeling to know my work has connected with another person so much so they want to own it. I'll miss Miguel in my studio but I'm so happy he has a home! Miguel. Oil on canvas.

Huguette Clark was the daughter of Senator William A Clark, a copper tycoon who in the early 1900s had been as rich as John D Rockefeller. Huguette painted this scene from her Fifth Avenue apartment window just after a snow storm in the mid 1920s.

Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940

Thank you for watching. I'm on tour. And I'm not exaggerating when I say it would be super to see you. www.mickperrin.com?post_type=to...

Happy Sunday afternoon! Original artwork is a wonderful present to give & I have available work on my website (see also on the studio sale page) including this self portrait which I particularly love. Sunday Afternoon in Blue oil on canvas rebeccafosterartist.com/section/1352...

Trump's statement about Rob Reiner shows the depth of his trench. USA, you elected someone who has no idea how to be a decent human being. Trump is destroying your humanity.

A little study I did using oil on paper to try out a new painting medium. It is based on a frame from A History of Violence which is a film that lingered in my imagination after I originally saw it at the cinema.

Girl in a black headscarf.' In the 1870s, Wilhelm Leibl moved to the Bavarian countryside to paint villagers as he saw them, work that was greatly admired by Gustave Courbet. 'I paint human beings as they are, so the soul is there.'

And yet they continue to exist. They keep showing up. Is it like the chocolate biscuit from Bagpuss? Just the same few packets of Parma Violets, in circulation since the 1970s, being passed from cupboard to cupboard up and down the land?

Good afternoon. I'm currently taking on new commissions. Please get in touch via my website if interested in talking more. This is a work in progress shot from a couple of years ago. Grateful for any shares!!!! Thank you!

Charlie enjoying the studio heating situation

Happy Sunday afternoon! Original artwork is a wonderful present to give & I have available work on my website (see also on the studio sale page) including this self portrait which I particularly love. Sunday Afternoon in Blue oil on canvas rebeccafosterartist.com/section/1352...

Just back from the Helene Schjerfbeck show at The Met. It's wonderful to have so much work from this powerful Finnish painter in New York. This is 'Self Portrait, Black Background' from 1915. It's on loan from The Finnish National Gallery.

Afternoon! This is now up for sale on my website should anyone be interested rebeccafosterartist.com/artwork/5415...

Afternoon! This is now up for sale on my website should anyone be interested rebeccafosterartist.com/artwork/5415...

I was very fortunate to be asked to paint this portrait of 'Aunt Polly ' for the final series of Peaky Blinders. I love being asked to do things like this it was so exciting to see it on TV. #peakyblinders #portraitpainting #art #oilpainting

There is a story that Alberto Morrocco's wife Vera, seen here at the breakfast table in the 1950s, was constantly searching for missing bowls, plates and jugs that had been commandeered for a still life, what her husband called a more important purpose than originally intended.

'Rain on Princes Street,' is one of a small number of Fururist pictures Stanley Cursiter painted in 1913 which capture the sensation of modern life: people, colours, objects, and sounds - these works brought him major critical attention at home.

Two key moments happened in Félix Vallotton’s life in 1899: he married his wife Gabrielle (seen here slumbering in bed), and he decided to fully commit himself to painting rather than the more profitable line of engraving.