Peter Greenham

Mundesley Beach, Norfolk, Oil on Board Painting by Peter Greenham

20th Century

Cloud Shadows IV, Oil on Board Painting by Lindy Guinness 1941-2020, 2017 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 10 x 12 in 25.4 x 30.5 cm Signed with initials Lindy Guinness, The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava 1959 Met Duncan Grant and worked with him at Charleston for the next ten years 1960 Byam Shaw School of Art 1961-64 Chelsea School of Art 1962-63 Summer School, Salzburg - wins Kokoschka Watercolour Scholarship 1965 Scholarship to Slade School of Art 1970 Worked under Sir William Coldstream, Jeffrey Camp and Sir Lawrence Gowing Exhibitions 1971 Harvane Gallery, London 1972 Hole in the Wall Gallery, Belfast 1976 Gordon Gallery, Derry 1978 Maclean Gallery, London 1981 Soloman Gallery, Dublin 1982 Gordon Gallery, Derry 1984 Hartnoll & Eyre, London 1986 Browse & Darby, London 1986 Browse & Darby, London 1995 Mushroom Watercolour...

Baro Harbour, Sunset (Nigeria), Oil on Board Painting by Derek Hill 1916-2000 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 18.5 x 41 cm 7 1/4 x 16 1/8 in Titled verso Provenance Acquired from the Artist by Adrian Stokes, and thence by descent. Exhibitions London, Marlborough Gallery, as 'Lagameno Harbour - sunset', with label attached verso Arthur Derek Hill was born in Southampton in 1916. He and his two older brothers attended Marlborough College, where he demonstrated an interest in, and a talent for, painting. His father persuaded him to study stage design rather than painting as that had greater prospects for employment. Consequently he enrolled to study stage design in Munich at the age of 17. He later studied under Paul Colin in Paris and under Dr Josef Gregor in Vienna. Dr Gregor introduced him to Tairov, the director of the Mamemney Theatre in Moscow, where he spent six months in 1936. After working in Moscow he took time out to travel east via the Trans Siberian Express to Japan, China, Bali and Siam. In 1937 Hill returned to England to a job as costume designer at Sadlers Wells but after a short time he went back to Paris. Encouraged by Edward Molyneux, a couturier and collector of impressionist art, he rented an old mill in the Loire and took up painting in earnest. When war broke out he returned to Wiltshire in England as a conscientious objector and worked as a farm worker. He painted in his spare time and met many artists including Victor Pasmore and Mary Kessell. In 1943, at the age of 27, Hill had a one man exhibition in London at the Nicholson Gallery and he also organised exhibitions of the work of other artists including Degas. In 1946 Hill spent a year painting in Ireland. He had relations in Co Wicklow but mostly painted in Galway, Mayo and Achill Island where he painted with the Irish artist Louis LeBroquey. From 1947 Hill spent a great deal of time in Italy. He met the art historian Bernard Berenson who admired his work and became a father figure to him following the death of his own parents. He spent many winters at Berenson’s home, the I Tati estate, outside Florence. During his time in Italy he met many Italian artists including Antonio Music, Renato Guttuso, Bruno Saetti and Giorgio Morandi. He also met the American Henry McIlhenney, who was working at the American Academy in Rome. McIlhenney owned Glenveagh Castle in Donegal at the time and invited Hill to visit him there in 1949. Hill returned again and again to Donegal and in 1953 he bought the house the old St Columb’s rectory, Churchill, now Glebe House, and moved in the following year. Glebe House was Hill’s main home from 1954 until 1981 although he continued to travel extensively during those years. He was appointed the Art Director at the British School in Rome where he met such artists as John Bratby and Joe Tillson as well as the more famous Francis Bacon, Henry Inlander, John Craxton and Keith Vaughan. In 1956/8 Derek Hill visited Tory Island for the first time and was fascinated by the light and rugged scenery. He rented a hut there and spent many weeks every summer painting. His example and encouragement led to the development of a whole school of naïve painting, the Tory Island Painters, of whom the best known artist is James Dixon. Hill’s career as a painter, particularly of portraits, blossomed and he was commissioned to paint many famous people some of whom visited St Columb’s. His portraits include those of Daniel O'Donnell, Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Rubenstein...

This painting depicts an impressionistic Plein Air scene of Vesuvio Bakery in West Village NYC. The thick brush strokes and fun marks creates an atmos...

A quiet and cool evening in April by the river conveys the mood of light nostalgia for the time when the first love comes. The singing of birds is already becoming audible, and the f...