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Staithes Group Art | English Landscape Paintings of the 20th Century
The aim of this on-line exhibition is to show that the genre does not exist simply to provide pretty and inoffensive art works with which to decorate a room. We have searched for works by artists who have internalised the landscape around them and shown us it through their eyes with their unique vision. They have studied clouds and their effect on every part of the landscape. Snow, rain, drizzle, dead grass and bare trees are subjects which fascinate them. Their work encourages us to search for elements of it whenever we look at a landscape so we can say,It's a Friedenson sky!; That dead moorland landscape is pure Owen Bowen! or Theres a Howey raincurtain! Their brush strokes are often so broad and so distinctive that we can enjoy with them the tactile pleasure of applying the paint. We can choose which aspects of the English landscape and the English weather and the wonderful English light we enjoy most, and wallow in it! If we buy a good Arthur Friedenson painting we can feel the breeze! KEEP SCROLLING DOWN and click on the name of each individual artist below to see all of their work which is included in the exhibition.
Richard Marshall gained his B.A. in Fine Art at Sunderland Art college in 1966 followed by a two year postgraduate course at the Slade School of Art. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute, Cambridge University, University College London, provincially and in Australia. We have handled his work for many years and are delighted with his new range of beach scenes which he is painting exclusively for ourselves. Favourite subjects include Scarborough, Whitby, Staithes, Robin Hoods Bay, Runswick and Bamburgh often with children playing and with donkeys.Richard died in September last year and is missed very much. CLICK ON his name above to see these, are the last of his pictures that are available.