Cristus at Greenwich!

We are pleased to announce that you can now find Cristus Gallery at Greenwich Market on the first and last Sundays of each month. We have the usual fine collection of new paintings, signed original prints, ceramics and unique art greetings cards that you can find at Sandgate, but now available to our legions of followers in London.

Come along, say ‘hello’ to Deborah, and have a browse. We’ll be featuring special offers, taking commissions for our stable of extremely talented artists, and inviting customers to our Sandgate first night openings.

There’s lots of other stuff happening at the Market and it makes a great day out with the Maritime Museum, Observatory and Cutty Sark just around the corner, and lots of other artists and craftspeople exhibiting too…

One customer was so carried away by the quality of the raku pottery that she tried to make off with a piece before Debs could wrap it…

While this man was apoplectic at the scandalously high value and low prices of the art…

See you in Greenwich, first and last Sundays!

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The Tripods are coming… HG Wells Festival

We’re delighted to include a specially commissioned Tripod by Neil Jones in the upcoming HG Wells Festival. The Tripod - inspired by Wells’ War of the Worlds - will be on display at the gallery from Friday September 4th.

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Dreaming of Olympia - 5 Thomas Ostenberg bronzes at the Mint Leaf

It’s refreshing to see work that doesn’t strain for effect, is straightforward, confident and comfortable in its own skin. Ostenberg’s bronzes on show at the Mint Leaf restaurant  (Lothbury, City of London) are about joy, energy and love of life. There is humour in these pieces, and a kind of circus-like exuberance.

Two of the pieces - “Wing and a Prayer” and “Leap of Faith” - depict flying gymnastic figures suspended in a circle of bronze. What came to mind was a Classical Indian, rather than a Greek or Olympian association: the Mahabharata… “The wheel of life moves on. It has the understanding for its strength; the mind for the pole (on which it rests); the group of senses for its bonds, the five great elements for its nave, and home for its circumference”.

Perhaps ’the wheel of life’ explains why these works sit so beautifully in the surroundings of the Mint Leaf, an upmarket, funky Indian restaurant. The Ostenberg bronzes enhance the restaurant no end, and if the proprietors have any sense, they will make sure they hold on to them permanently. 

The exhibition is brought to the Mint Leaf by Fraser Kee Scott and A GALLERY, where you can find out more about the exhibition and Ostenberg’s pieces.

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‘Acceptance’ by Jessica Stride

“Acceptance” by Jessica Stride showing her typical mastery of colour. Acrylic on canvas. Presentation is on an unframed deep box canvas. More details.

Buy an open edition print here.

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009

You sir! Pass my monacle.

To assert that the Royal Academy’s long standing tradition of open submission to its Summer Exhibition is a form of democracy, as the great and good would have us believe in the meeja this week, is to adopt an essentially self-contradictory position. There’s a paradox in operation.

I say so because the actual tradition of the Academy is one of conservatism, elitism, royal and aristocratic patronage, closed shops, and negative discrimination at every possible level. It has played its part in helping to build the reputation of English art as the poor man of Europe, dragging its pallid shape along in the wake of the adventurous and spunky Europeans (and Americans in the precociously recent 20th Century). Picasso, Miro, Pollock, Richter? What, when we have the St Ives school?

At this year’s exhibition, as in the past, the jury’s chosen water colourists and acrylicists rub shoulders with established artists. What’s different is that this time around, apparently it’s funky. Flirting dangerously with the 21st Century, the Academy has drafted in Emin and Hirst, like Royalty at a cup final. Britain has globally recognised stars of the art world, and here they are. We only sing when we’re winning.

This is a good mix. It is an excellent chance to compare the output of the great engine room of English artistic output, the reality of what art is for most artists (i.e. rendering approximations of observed phenomena with paint, charcoal etc), with the work of the great conceptualists of our time. Who will come off best? What will connect, emotionally or intellectually? And what will have lasting quality?

We find ourselves at a fascinating juncture in art history, entangled as never before in the reality of the market place. It’s an entertaining scramble for the Art Quid, but let’s not pretend that democracy has anything to do with it.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009 continues until 16th August.

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New Acquisitions - Heather Townshend Prints

Cristus has acquired a stunning collection of Heather Townshend prints. They cover a range of subjects from compositions with pure light (’Daybreak’, ‘Sunset’ and ‘Dark Light’) to abstracted natural and industrial landscapes. The collage shows the first tranche of prints. We will post a second tranche later as well as more detail on each of the prints. Over the next two weeks or so we will be posting them for sale our UK Shop site. See Heather Townshend Abstracts.

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David Townsend - Sandgate

The painting: “Sandgate” is a delightful view of Sandgate Village in Kent. The constructed yet organic procession of planes towards the top of the hill and the sky are strongly reminiscent of Cezanne’s Mont St. Victoire series, blending realism, a cubist perspective that leads us into the picture, and a striking interpretation of colour and space.

The artist: David Townsend is a Kent (UK) based artist who paints abstract and figurative works. David is currently exhibiting with the Cristus Gallery, Sandgate.

How to buy: Click on the image for more information. You can purchase the original directly from the gallery, or buy online if you would like a high quality reproduction on archival quality papers, canvas or stretched box canvas. A huge range of mounts and framing options is available. See all of David Townsend’s artwork for sale…

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Julie-Ann Bowden - Angel with Green Halo

Julie-Ann Bowden’s Angel with Green Halo is typical of her iconic, naive style. The flat perspectives are deepened by the rich colours which suggest Russian and Byzantine iconography. Julie-ann’s Angel paintings come from a deep and genuine spirituality rarely seen in today’s more cynical art movements.

The artist: Julie-Ann Bowden is a Doncaster (England) based artist who paints devotional works, as well as more playful images. Julie-Ann is currently exhibiting with the Cristus Gallery, Sandgate.

How to buy: Click on the image for more information. You can buy online if you would like a high quality reproduction on archival quality papers, canvas or stretched box canvas. A huge range of mounts and framing options is available.

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Julie-Ann Bowden - Blue Angel Pink Flower

Julie-Ann Bowden’s Blue Angel Pink Flower is typical of her iconic, naive style. The flat perspectives are deepened by the rich colours which suggest Russian and Byzantine iconography. Julie-ann’s Angel paintings come from a deep and genuine spirituality rarely seen in today’s more cynical art movements.

The artist: Julie-Ann Bowden is a Doncaster (UK) based artist who paints devotional works. Julie-Ann is currently exhibiting with the Cristus Gallery, Sandgate.

How to buy: Click on the image for more information. You can buy online if you would like a high quality reproduction on archival quality papers, canvas or stretched box canvas. A huge range of mounts and framing options is available.

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Julie-Ann Bowden - Angel with Golden Halo

Julie-Ann Bowden’s Blue Angel with Golden Halo is typical of her iconic, naive style. The flat perspectives are deepened by the rich colours which suggest Russian and Byzantine iconography. Julie-ann’s Angel paintings come from a deep and genuine spirituality rarely seen in today’s more cynical art movements.

The artist: Julie-Ann Bowden is a Doncaster (UK) based artist who paints devotional works. Julie-Ann is currently exhibiting with the Cristus Gallery, Sandgate.

How to buy: Click on the image for more information. You can buy online if you would like a high quality reproduction on archival quality papers, canvas or stretched box canvas. A huge range of mounts and framing options is available.

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