ABOUT:

We are pleased to present a new series of paintings by Spanish abstract expressionist and figurative painter, Felix Anaut.

Winner of a career recognition award at the Florence Biennale and listed by El Mundo as one of the top ten most influential people in the arts (2005-6), Felix Anaut is not as well known in the UK as he is in mainland Europe.

He regularly exhibits in Spain, France and Italy, and was in the inaugural exhibition at the Naples Museum of Contemporary Art, where his pieces were also purchased for their permanent collection.

For this exhibition he is showing for the first time a series of large VASE paintings, including one triptych, 1.6 x 3 metres. The works are a one off series, inspired from his collaboration with the art ceramicist, Liz Guy. The paintings technically bear a great resemblance to the artist's large scale black and white figurative work, however with a much softer tonality, using vibrant blue rather than black as the defining colour, contrasted with soft earth tones for the body of the vases. The final results are a series of work portraying a nearly surreal aspect, through the organic forms of the vases with their single flowers, further exemplified by the scale of the pieces.

Felix's works are held in numerous private collections throughout Europe, The United States and Australia, and in several public Institutions including: Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples; Ulster Museum; Instituto Cervantes (Bordeaux & Dublin); Musea de Isaba (Navarra – Spain).

Felix Anaut studied at the L’ecole de Montparnasse d’Art et Dessin” in Paris in 1978-79, and has lived in Madrid, Tangier, Ibiza, England, Belfast. In 1986 he became a member of the Association of Irish Artists.

The VASE paintings will be shown alongside stoneware ceramic vases and vessels by Liz Guy, a member of the West Street Potters, Wrecclesham. 

ARTISTS:
Felix Anaut Oil and Charcoal on paper