These semi-abstract acrylic paintings are inspired by natural and architectural forms, and the spaces in between, in creating a visual feast of pattern, colour and movement.

Dates: 7th until 12th December 2009

Times: Monday to Saturday 10 am until 6 pm, Thursday and Friday until 9 pm.

Prices range from £ 180 – £ 2800 and the artist will be in attendance throughout.

View the website page www.arthobbs.com/jubilate.php to see further images from the show.

Contact Paul Hobbs on + 41 7985 308 428 or paul@arthobbs.com. Paul’s website is www.arthobbs.com

Location:

Air Gallery

32 Dover St

London, W1S 4NE, United Kingdom

Richardson Paintings are thrilled to announce their first West End Exhibition, ‘ Run Out of Monet’ after nearly twenty years of selling their finest quality hand-painted oil paintings. The paintings will range from traditional subjects to modern ones, from horses and dogs to portraits and abstract landscapes.

They have an enviable worldwide stable of talented artists who can paint virtually anything from a good image or photograph, enabling clients to have paintings they could only dream of owning, subject to copyright.Over the years they have worked with some of the most famous interior designers and properties around Europe, often filling spaces where the right painting became impossible to find.

They still paint copies of paintings for clients of the main auction houses who want to sell their originals at auction and are delighted to take on any size of commission, from a painting of a loved one to a ten feet wide painting of Rorke’s Drift for a client in South Africa, with just under fifty figures in it.

Paintings range from £ 235 to £ 3,495.

The exhibition is showing each day from 10-6 on Tuesday 1st until Friday 4th December, and is open on Saturday 5th December from 10-5.30.

Richardson Paintings can be contacted on 01491 629 549 or info@richardsonpaintings.com, and more details are at www.richardsonpaintings.com

Next week The Air Gallery is hosting an exhibition of landscape paintings by Menorca based artist Lindsay Mullen. Her large format paintings bring light and nature close to the on-looker and create a sense of calm.

Her work is held in private and public collections throughout Europe and worldwide, and she undertakes commissions.

‘Inspirational Landscapes’ is showing from Monday 23rd until Saturday 28th November, and each day the gallery will be open from 11 am until 7 pm.

Lindsay can be contacted at lindsay.mullen@googlemail.com or on + 34 619 460942.

www.biniarroca.com

A new exhibition opens next week at The Air Gallery- a collection of new paintings titled ‘ Colour Emotions’ by Susan Beazley, North Yorkshire painter and Samaritans volunteer.

Susan’s career started in advertising after university where, among other leading industry companies, she reached board level at Saatchi & Saatchi where she worked for ‘ 10 crazy years!’ At the age of 50 she decided that her hectic lifestyle was unfulfilling and decided on a massive life change. She gave up work and relocated to the Yorkshire Dales. It was there that she allowed herself to discover her creative side. She started studying and making ceramics and realised her true ambition- to paint. ‘ It took me 50 years to allow myself to paint’.

Susan has been painting full-time for over six years and today her paintings reflect her inner landscape and core values: freedom; trust in the magic of everyday; of being conscious of the present as a gift. She is attracted to the essential nature of people and landscapes. She works in oils, loving their rich colour and texture and uses big canvases, big brushes and makes bold marks. Her paintings are full of energy, vibrant and optimistic.

In 2005 Susan became a Samaritans volunteer feeling it was time to give something back to her adopted community. Included in the paintings she has chosen to show are three pieces that have been produced as a result of her work with Samaritans and will be sold with all proceeds going to the charity. The issues covered in these paintings are: self-harm; bereavement and emotional abuse.

The body of work being exhibited in ‘ Colour Emotions’ is in marked contrast to the despair and distress underlying the paintings donated to the Samaritans and to the current economic climate and mood: magical landscapes and vibrant nudes.

The exhibition is open each day from 10 am -6 pm Tuesday 10th until Friday 13th November, and on Saturday 14th November from 10 am – 4pm.

Susan’s work can be seen at www.susanbeazley.com

For information about Samaritans visit www.samaritans.org or to make a donation visit www.virginmoneygiving.com and follow the links for ‘Samaritans- Central Charity’.

Born in 1971, Rory trained at the Royal College of Art. He works in oil paint on slate, wood and canvas, describing his paintings as ‘enclosed fragments’ representing the elemental beauty of land, sea and sky, capturing the abstract serenity and simplicity of what he sees in Nature. This new work reflects the insularity of the artist in the landscape, each image depicting nature as a wild entity in itself – in his words ‘unhumanised, sublime and untamed’.

He has shown his work in numerous group and solo shows including Cork Street, The Barbican Centre and The Royal Academy. Rory lives and works in Devon.

The exhibition is open each day from 10:00am-6:00pm Monday 19th until Friday 23rd October, and on Saturday 24th October from 11:00am-4:00pm.

Rory’s work can be seen at www.rorynugent.co.uk and contacted at info@rorynugent.co.uk

One of Georgia’s most famous artists Zurab Nijaradze will be exhibiting at The Air Gallery from 5-10 October. A painter with decades of experience, Zurab is also Professor of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts and is an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Born in 1928 and now in his eighties, he is visiting London for the first time since the 1960s. Zurab may be entering his twilight years, but his energy, ideas and enthusiasm continue to flow and shows no signs of slowing down. His life and career have spanned over many years of constant changes and he has had to face and adapt to many challenges in Georgia.

In the 1960s he was one of the artists who openly opposed Socialist Realism. He was expelled twice from the Academy of Arts for Formulism. He introduced a different, new artistic reality, a new direction and a new way of thinking into the construction of his work; he was regarded as being one of life’s true innovators.

His unique style, ideas and tastes have conquered viewers. The series of portraits and genre paintings are impressed with unusual spiritual depth and lavishness of colour. These pictures have become a great source of inspiration for artists, admirers and collectors in the former Soviet Union. From his popularity it was impossible for the authorities to ignore and gradually they admitted this by officially recognising his talent in honouring him the prestigious title of the People’s Artist of Georgia.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union the restrictions eased and the borders became more open. This new situation now allowed an international audience to appreciate and admire the works of all the great Georgian artists- Zurab being one of them.

It is a difficult time in Georgia and only people who are highly organised and highly intellectual are able to go on with their work, remaining at their easels, wrapped in warm shawls, keeping their personalities untouched. This is Zurab Nijaradze, a versatile artist, an intellectual.
His works are like small glasses in a magic pipe – they mix and shine as the surface of the sea, as the blue sky, as reddish mountains covered with autumn woods.
“Circus” –playfulness, lightness, glitter of colours; his nudes are on the surface of the canvas as a memory, as an anticipation, or love. Pictures – kaleidoscopes, pictures – treasures, pictures – endless as life.
God bless Zurab and give him strength to work and overcome obstacles.
Natasha Nesterova, Artist

Zurab’s work can be found in public collections such as the State Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Theatre and Cinema in Tbilisi, The State Tretyakov Gallery and Museum of Eastern Peoples, Moscow, The National Gallery of Rio de Janeiro and the Museum of Modern Art, Aakhen, Germany.

His paintings also form important additions to many private art collections such as those of Pope Paul II, Madeleine Albright (former US State Secretary), Gerhard Schroeder (former German Chancellor) and Hans Dietrich Genscher (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany).

This exhibition has been kindly sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Monument Protection of Georgia and is organised by theEnglish Speaking Union of Georgia

Curated by Marina Tsitsishvili & George Laliashvili
5th – 10th October 2009
11am-6pm Monday- Saturday

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I would like to invite you to see Nick Brandt’s fantastic works ‘A Shadow Falls’ on safari wild life in East Africa in the Air Gallery in London.

The Air Gallery is delighted to be showing The Atlas Gallery’s exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Nick Brandt.

A Shadow Falls continues the photographer’s ambitious project to memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Brandt’s wide-screen panoramas of animals and landscapes capture an epic vision of a wild Africa which is steadily vanishing.

In the last six years Brandt has risen to prominence as a major figure in contemporary photography on both sides of the Atlantic which major exhibitions from Berlin to Los Angeles, with celebrity buyers and established collectors queuing to buy his work, which range from 20 x 24″ prints to almost life size 60 x 80″ large format pigment prints.

The exhibition runs from 8th September until 3rd October ( Mon-Fri 10-6 and Sat 11-6). For more details call +44 20 7224 4192 or look at www.atlasgallery.com