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Contemporary Art
Contemporary artists keep the art market alive and also our gallery. Presenting established talent together with the modern masters is exciting and shows how the world around us is constantly evolving. New media is making our world smaller and it can be sensed in many ways. We are proud to work with our living artists and aim to present them to an international public. in addition, we are always looking for new talent.| Work |
Graham Dean
The British artist Graham Dean (1951) can be regarded as one of the early artists to promote the return to figurative painting in Great Britain when he started out in the early 1980’s. Initially working in a more narrative figurative manner Dean has over time concentrated on the more visceral expression of his figures and has become highly treausured for his very personal watercolour technique on Indian paper.
His warm and colourful compositions vary from mysterious, erotic to sinister and humorous. Although figurative, his figures
Are used as a vehicle to express these emotions, ideas and different states of being.
Applying a rather traditional technique such as watercolour can leave one surprised when confronted with the radically different way that Graham chooses to execute his works.
Applying contrasting layers of paint onto thick, porous handmade Indian paper ,manipulating the flow of the paint and water, he tears several sections away to reassemble them later. This form of collage lends the image a raw but yet vulnerable support.
The works of Graham Dean are represented and exhibited internationally for over 25 years. Nowadays he lives and works near the sea in Brighton, England and in the countryside of Umbria, Italy.
The British artist Graham Dean (1951) can be regarded as one of the early artists to promote the return to figurative painting in Great Britain when he started out in the early 1980’s. Initially working in a more narrative figurative manner Dean has over time concentrated on the more visceral expression of his figures and has become highly treausured for his very personal watercolour technique on Indian paper.
His warm and colourful compositions vary from mysterious, erotic to sinister and humorous. Although figurative, his figures
Are used as a vehicle to express these emotions, ideas and different states of being.
Applying a rather traditional technique such as watercolour can leave one surprised when confronted with the radically different way that Graham chooses to execute his works.
Applying contrasting layers of paint onto thick, porous handmade Indian paper ,manipulating the flow of the paint and water, he tears several sections away to reassemble them later. This form of collage lends the image a raw but yet vulnerable support.
The works of Graham Dean are represented and exhibited internationally for over 25 years. Nowadays he lives and works near the sea in Brighton, England and in the countryside of Umbria, Italy.
