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rutherford: painter, artist, commissioned oil paintings
PORTRAIT & FIGURE
OIL & PENCIL | FINE ART
ONE BRUSH PAINTINGS
January 2025
All paintings:
Oil on canvas panel
40x40cm
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This mini series was created as quick studies to explore a looser style, using only one large brush for every stroke. I also opted for much-reduced values. I've also eliminated all black values entirely, making the hues work much harder.
All paintings are for sale: See SALES page.
PRINTS: from £50 (please enquire by email).
I Heart U
Warm Summer Shadows
Pink Cowboy
Red On A Winters Day
Green Reflections
Blue Calm
oh beanz
January 2022
Oil on wood panel
40cm dia
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This painting was created during lockdown 2021 and completed in 2022. It's a study of a floral arrangement put together by a very talented florist friend mr.co.flowerhouse (check out his amazing wreaths!). I just love the joyfulness of the saturated colours and fun beans can.
PRINTS: £50 each (limited run of 15 signed prints A3, on archival paper unframed)
o how albert missed his hair
January 2022
Oil on wood panel
30cm dia
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Anatomy study with hydrangeas, completed in Jan, 2022.
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Albert is the (resin) skull that sits in my studio. I've been doing a few little studies of him and each time I imagine who he was, and perhaps what he might miss from his previous life. I'm not sure why I've decided he's a He... one to ponder.
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dry january
January 2022
Oil on wood panel
35 x 45cm
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Self Portrait completed in Jan, 2022.
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Dry January is just so boring isn't it? I know, it's meant to be super healthy for us but, wow it drags on doesn't it?
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Backlit with a cool natural light coming from the window, and front lit with a warm candle, creating some nice colour tensions on the piece.
tallulah's view
April - August 2020
Oil on wood panel
61 x 61cm
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Self Portrait completed in lockdown, 2020.
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Talking to friends about how they felt about being in isolation (in April/May - mid lockdown), most said they felt a mix of crashing highs and lows and in between that, a grey never-ending boredom, all in the same day. This self portrait is a mix of those feelings... having so much time on our hands we are always scrutinising ourselves and our surroundings at a time that seemed like it would never end.
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The title Tallulah's View (of me) is because my daughter took the original photo after we gave her my old digital camera. This image resonated with me because I forget at times that she sees things differently than I do. While I'm scrutinising the ceiling, she's scrutinising me.
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sofie & piano
May 2020
Oil on canvas
43 x 53cm
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Sofie is one of my nieces living in Sweden. This image is of her playing with a toy piano in her bedroom cupboard.
She sits quietly in this tiny space, resting perhaps after a moment of busy play with her big sister.
The scale of the piano intrigues me and raises questions of scale in Sofie herself, a little like Alice in Wonderland.
hats in bloomsbury
March 2020
Oil on canvas
80 x 80cm
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This work was inspired by a scene I captured outside a gentleman's outfitters in Bloomsbury on a sunny day in North London.
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I started this work at the beginning of 2020 and I had to stop in a hurry due to Covid-19 and our studios closing. I've purposely left it unfinished with some elements only having had a first pass.
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Shortlisted for the Holly Bush Emerging Women Painter Prize 2020
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