Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Painted Personalities (Nineteen Nineties)

Naomi Alexander
Gideon
1990
oil on panel
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Alison Watt
Marat and the Fishes
1990
oil on canvas
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Alison Watt
Cherries, Forbidden Fruit, and Pear in a Landscape
1991
oil on canvas (triptych)
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Lys Hansen
Berlin Diptych: Look and Listen (left panel)
1994
acrylic on canvas
Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayrshire, Scotland

Lys Hansen
Berlin Diptych: Look and Listen (right panel)
1994
acrylic on canvas
Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayrshire, Scotland

Kevin Sinnott
Down to Earth
1990
oil on canvas
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands

Kevin Sinnott
Watching the Buzzard
1998
oil on linen
Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Powys, Wales

Kashmiri Song

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,
     Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far,
     Before you agonise them in farewell?

Oh, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains,
     Holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell,
How the hot blood rushed wildly through the veins,
     Beneath your touch, until you waved farewell.

Pale hands, pink tipped, like Lotus buds that float
     On those cool waters where we used to dwell,
I would have rather felt you round my throat,
     Crushing out life, than waving me farewell!

– Laurence Hope (pseudonym of Adela Florence Nicolson née Cory, 1865-1904)

Shani Rhys James
Lead White
1995
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Mark Shields
Self Portrait, The Troubled Look
1995
acrylic on linen
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Steven Campbell
Bill Forsyth, Film Producer
1995
oil on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Mary Mabbutt
Blue Kitchen
1996
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Richard Patterson
Self Portrait
1996
oil on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery

Richard Patterson
Head
1998
oil on canvas
British Council Collection, London

Justin Mortimer
Portrait of Steven Redgrave
1998
oil on canvas
River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames

Ken Currie
Shot Boy (First Revision)
1996-98
oil on canvas
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne