Graham Dean
1975
Refugee from England ( Memories)
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 47 x 41 inches
Original frame
This painting was part of an invitation exhibition at the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery –known as the notorious Treadwell Gallery, on the theme of having an alternative view of the Queen.
“I painted this when I was 23, two years out of art college. A painting about a cliched idea of England. I got a woman to sit on the chair and model the figure of the Queen. I painted her holding a scrapbook, as if she was looking at memories of her own life.”
This painting was reproduced internationally: it was in a Sunday Times colour supplement, the Sunday Times rich list and featured on TV.
Graham Dean
1978
Balaclava
Coloured pencil and gouache
Image size: 16 x 12 inches
Original frame
A self-portrait of the artist.
Graham Dean
1977
Fused
Acrylic on paper on board
Image size: 72 x 30 inches
Original frame
Graham Dean
1978
Slip
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 29 x 24 inches
Original frame
Graham Dean
1980
Steam Room
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 14 x 10 inches
Original frame
In keeping with Dean's passion for experiencing the subjects of his work, this image was created following his first visit to an authentic Turkish Bath in the East End of London.
Graham Dean
1977
Signpost
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 78 x 50 inches
Framed
The painting depicts a time before electronic travel boards, when train times were chalked on blackboards. The model Dean found for the painting was a gravedigger from the Oxfordshire village Wolvercote. The grave digger died a year after. He didn’t really speak much and was very much lost in his own thoughts. It was included in a group show on the theme of urban realism called Art for Society at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
“This was the first of my train reference paintings which culminated in Compartments (trilogy) which was 1979-80. In retrospective I now wonder if they also refer to the fact that I wasn’t completely happy living in Oxford at that time and wanted to be back in London. I had just left the Landesmans house at Duncan Terrace. It’s a painting about travel and the passing of time –the days of British Rail may be romanticised now but I remember dirty, often smelly trains which didn’t run late –at least they were on the London /Oxford line.”
Graham Dean
1984
Porter
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 40 x 29 inches
Original frame
The model in this painting is the same as the one in the painting Camouflage. The artist researched a lot about South Africa and apartheid. It was started in New York and then completed in Oxford. The painting was influenced by what the artist saw in New York -the artist’s first visit.
“In New York I noticed many people carrying their groceries around in these large paper bags. I then came across a photo of a South African white woman walking ahead of a black ‘boy’ carrying her groceries from the shops.”
Watercolour version is in the V&A drawings and watercolour collection.
Graham Dean
1976
The Pugilist
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 50 x 31 inches
Framed
This painting is a career changing painting for the artist. Dean was inspired by a fighter from the St Giles Fair in Oxford, which resulted in a life size depiction of an exhausted fighter slumping on a bench after the match. The fair featured exhibition fights by boxers who would parade up and down on walkways outside their tents, challenging the members of the public to take them on.
“I used a friend from Oxford to pose and apparently I made him run around the block several times to get the desired ‘slumped and exhausted’ effect. Denise applied the make up of someone who had been battered and bruised. It was a time when everything came into alignment and I thought I painted something memorable, mcharged and emotional.”
Graham Dean
1976
The Poppy Seller
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: 83 x 37 inches
Framed
Keith Holmes
Contemporary
Folkestone
Oil on board, signed lower right
Image size: 32 ¼ x 57 ¾ inches
Framed
Jeremy Andrews
Born 1974
Hillside
Oil on panel, signed lower right
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches
Andrews developed a unique style combining objective studies of nature with a deeply personal vision of the countryside around him.
Jeremy Andrews works in oils and uses traditional techniques such as under painting and glazes to create startling illusions of flesh and body mass. He works meticulously to recreate what he sees, observing the finest details and subtleties in light and form.
He has exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, London; The Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London.
His work is held in both private and public collections.
Andrews also works to commission, primarily in oils. He has painted an eclectic range of sitters including Lord Denis Healy and The Lord Levy
Jeremy Andrews
Born 1974
Atlas Mountains
Oil on panel, signed verso
Image size: 8 x 6 3/4 inches
Andrews developed a unique style combining objective studies of nature with a deeply personal vision of the countryside around him.
Jeremy Andrews works in oils and uses traditional techniques such as under painting and glazes to create startling illusions of flesh and body mass. He works meticulously to recreate what he sees, observing the finest details and subtleties in light and form.
He has exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, London; The Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London.
His work is held in both private and public collections.
Andrews also works to commission, primarily in oils. He has painted an eclectic range of sitters including Lord Denis Healy and The Lord Levy
Refugee from England ( Memories)
Graham Dean
Fused
Graham Dean
Graham Dean
Signpost
Graham Dean
Graham Dean
Graham Dean
Keith Holmes
Jeremy Andrews
Jeremy Andrews
