This piece of art is quite unique, I purchased two paintings from this artist at an overseas gallery 2013, kept this and sold the other, that you can see on an earlier post, including all the other pieces of art they purchased.
I enjoy the unique methods the artist created, certainly creates a mood wherever he hangs.
You’ll notice in my photos, how the piece changes in different lighting, I love the effects that vary.
For the past few years in the living room of my apartment, I’ve had both retro lamps either side, I love the more dramatic effects.
I’ve enjoyed having this painting since 2013. It’s featured in shows, window and shop displays and spent the past six years on my apartment.
From the first large work on fishes in England, marking a new era in ichthyology that clearly described and classified fishes according to nature and based on their characteristics drawn only from their structure.
17th century fish 1680. 1930 oil of Anne Bonney, an 18th century Irish pirate, painted by Raymond Lindsay (son)
One of collection of framed watercolours of birds 1827. Various nudes. Portrait of English gentleman, resembling Captain Cook.
Italian school portrait of a Roman dignitary. One of a collection of Picasso’s, Le Chat. One of many 17th century English maps. Victorian landscape by G Pillig 1940s.
Scottish highlands. A bright Margaret Tarrant. Napoleon hand coloured lithograph. 19th century NZ landscape.
Soldier 1607 – de Gheyn & Soldier 19th century.
Charcoal of a kitten by Mali Moir,
Exceptional Australian artist and close friend.
See more of her works on my website under Contemporary Art also many in Archives.
A decorative antiqued visual montage of the artists favourite objects.
The pretty girl has gathered a pomegranate and auricula flower from the display.
Inspired by 18th – 19th century New England naive portraiture art.
In foreground
Auricula flowers in full bloom
A wooden jardinier with overflowing magnolias
A delftware blue and white urn and pomegranates.
Finished with an antiqued glaze.
107 x 101 cm
Oil on canvas 2022
Below,
An unusual 19th Century French Fruitwood, Burr Elm and Oak Dough bin
Resting on a Wide Kilim Hall Rug. ‘Ardabil’
North East Iran
Wide Kilim Hall Rug
First half 20th Century
In good sound condition
4.8m x 1.36m
Unusually large 18th Century blue and white,
Dr Wall Worcester jug.
I purchased this privately over 30 years ago. I’ve had in my private collection and used in many displays and advertisements over the years.
A decorative 19th century English acanthus leaf styled stoneware jug.
Unusually large 19th century Masons Ironstone mug (my private collection)
Early 19th century English Masons Ironstone jug.
Dated 1813.
Her Kind explores 19th century Spiritualism and its influence on the mystical renaissance of the 1960’s. Yardley’s small monochromatic paintings are reminiscent of the earliest forms of photography and its reproduction in postcard format. Suggestions of paranormal activity refer to the Spirit photography invented by William Mumler in 1860 where unexpected lights and apparitions of presumed ghosts sit alongside the living sitters. However, rather than appearing in Victorian costume Yardley’s figures resemble the free living characters of the 1960’s; the hippies, beats, nudists and New Agers. The paintings draw on print material and cinema of the 1960’s occult revival exemplified in the films of Kenneth Anger and Roman Polanski. Figures and scenes emerge luminous out of the inky sepia coloured oil paint paying homage to the paintings and etchings of the Symbolists such as Eugene Carriere and Fransisco Goya.
