Modern Art - British artist Austin Moseley

Austin Moseley was born in 1930 in Tiverdale, Staffordshire. He has always lived and worked in the West Midlands and has a natural affinity with the area and the people of the Black Country.

Austin Moseley has painted for many years and has exhibited widely including the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (of which he was elected a Member) and the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil.

Austin Moseley’s textured oil paintings often of West Midland canal scenes or hill sides in the Dales and Lakes - portray the people, animals and landscape around him with humorous affection. Today Austin Moseley's paintings are highly sought after

The featured Austin Moseley painting above is now sold.

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Painting: 'Battery Park, New York' by British artist Susan Brown

Here is another painting from the upcoming Red Rag art exhibition 'Street Life'. It is by one of the leading British Artists - Susan Brown

Susan Brown was born in Yorkshire. She studied at Leeds Polytechnic between 1976 and 1979 gaining a BA Hons in Three Dimensional Design. Since then Susan Brown has progressed two main areas of interest - interior design and contemporary painting. Brown has completed numerous commissions and several projects as both designer and contemporary artist.

Susan Brown contemporary paintings appear in many notable private and public contemporary art collections. These include: Halifax Plc, Allied Domecq, Sir George Martin Trust, Universities of Sheffield and York.

The featured Susan Brown contemporary painting above is now sold.

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Irish art from Brian Smyth

Today's post features a painting from the next art show at Red Rag. It is 'Florentine Morning' from Irish artist - Brian Smyth

Brian Smyth paintings capture the very essence of his subjects. He is equally successful in his treatment of portraits, crowd scenes or café society.

In 'Florentine Morning'Smyth has sucessfully captured the start of a new day. The strong shadowing and narrow lane creates a sense of theatre and atmosphere

This oil painting is now available to purchase from Red Rag Gallery.It is being featured in the show 'Street Life' a mixed exhibition of contemporary paintings inspired by street scenes

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Scottish Art: artist Pam Carter

Today's post features one of the leading Scottish Artists - Pam Carter

Pam Carter was born in 1952. She is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art

Pam Carter’s subject matter is found in the rugged West Scottish Coast with its isolated cottages and wild colours of the machair and brachen. Pam also paints East Scottish Coastal scenes with majestic cliffs, fishing villages and farm land.

Scottish locations such as Skye, Lewis, Harris and the Uists have been favourite islands for Carter to visit. She has also produced contemporary paintings of Tiree and Coll. Tiree offers idyllic settings. The Island's architecture is like a museum of Scotland's past with wonderful cottages sitting perched on the most beautiful of beaches

Today's featured Pam Carter painting from Red Rag is 'Farm, Iona'

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Cornish artist: Jo March

Today we feature the art work of British artist Jo March

Jo March was born in 1962 and brought up on a family farm in the small Cornish moorland village of Darite in south east Cornwall.

Jo March’s upbringing, living in the Cornish landscape and the people that she met, is a strong influence on her choice of subject and how she depicts the landscape in her paintings. Inspiration for Jo’s paintings and limited edition prints is often drawn from the environment and the people of her childhood. She has abiding fascination with the eccentricities which exist just below the surface of rural life and in particular the characters that she observed in Cornwall whilst growing up.

Jo March’s paintings and limited edition prints are remarkably individual in outlook and style, drawing inspiration from the stunning Cornish countryside.

Today’s art is a Limited Edition Print from Jo titled ’Hendra’. Hendra is nestled at the head of the idyllic Polperro Valley and has the attributes so loved by locals and visitors in Cornwall. This Jo March Limited Edition Print captures the beaches and Cornish landscape in a quirky fun loving format. A house stands proud over looking the fields of grazing sheep. All is well with the world and although there are no people in the print there is a feeling that they are not far away.

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British art: artist Sylvia Antonsen

Today's post features artist Sylvia Antonsen and her painting 'Trevose Head'

Antonsen is fascinated by the British coastline and its maritime buildings. Sylvia's travels and observations have taken her to many UK counties including the county of Cornwall. Trevose Head Lighthouse is British built on the north west extremity of Trevose Head on the north Cornish coast. Its white tower rises above the dramatic sheer grey granite cliffs that are more than 45m above the level of the sea. The light in use today is one of a pair originally constructed here — a higher light and a lower. Pairs of fixed lights helped ships get their positions more accurately. It is the 27m tall higher light that remains in use — a white-painted cylindrical stone tower with gallery.

Sylvia Antonsen has captured the lighthouse on a bright uplifting day. The building stands majestically against a brilliant blue sea and sky. And, the safety and security associated with lighthouses is reinforced by the calm and confident scene. As in all of Sylvia Antonsen’s work it is this linear quality that accentuates a sense of order.

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