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Artist Statement:
Artist Statement (February,
2012.)
“The medium that I work in is
dictated by the ideas that I
have. The relationship between
the idea and the material for
me is very important. In the
last few years, I have worked
predominantly in pastel,
although it is one of the most
permanent mediums, it is also
possibly the most fragile.
My ideas and work continue to
explore, through the human
figure, the theme of “intimacy
between bodies”. The
familiarity and closeness of
lovers or the chance meeting
that turns a stranger into a
confident. Set in a world in
which figurative painting can
coexists with abstract
patterns, created by the
reflections of light on water.
The powder pigments of pastels
have a similar quality to the
idea of “lovers” — both hover
between being there and not
being there.
Pastels don’t have the
material certainty of oil
paints. So the with pastels,
it’s almost as if you could
blow them away. It’s like dust
in the desert.
The choice of medium has to
compliment the idea. The
pastel medium mirrors the
fragility of love. So the
relationship between the idea
and the material is more
fragile executed in pastels
then ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
New Exhibition “Lovers of
Light” at the Margate Gallery
in January 2012.
Sally Trueman and Patricia
Castle are holding a joint
exhibition at the Margate
Gallery, the gallery will be
open late on Friday the 17th
of February until 8.00 pm,
both artist will be present.
All are welcome!
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Artist Galleries:
Modern Painters, London,(By
appointment only.)
Email
sallytrueman@modernpainters.eu
http://www.modernpainters.eu
Royall Fine Art 52 The
Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells,
Kent, TN2 5TN. E mail:
enquiries@royallfineart.co.uk
http://www.royallfineart.co.uk/
page59.html
Island Fine Arts Ltd, 53 High
St, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
P035 ...
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Artist Reviews:
Catalogues and publications
LA DEPECHE.FR 21/07/2010
LADEPECHE.FR 23/11/2010
Art of England,September, 2010
2009 Pratique des Arts n°95 du
07 décembre 2010
Contemporary Art, New York,
Lucy Holden 2009
Art of England, September 2009
Artists and Illustrators,
September 2009
Artists and Illustrators...
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Collections:
Public Collections
United Kingdom - Lloyds/T.S.B
Group
United Kingdom - Brighton
Museum Service
United Kingdom - Hove Museum
Service
United Kingdom - National
Westminster Bank
United Kingdom - Russell Cotes
Museum & Art Gallery
United Kingdom - Southampton
City Hospital
United Kingdom - Brighton
Museum
France - Museum Carcassonne
China – Bank of China
Private Collections
United ...
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Commissions:
Prizes
2003 Paris – Galerie Encadra
‘l'Art et le Sport’
(First prize)
2003 Canada, Montreal -
International Exhibition of
Art
(First prize)
Commissions
2008 Invane Zazare Collection
Contemporary Art, Italy
2003 - 2005 Multiple
commissions - Dr. Katherine
Morton. N.Y
2003 Portrait commission -
Vice president Calvin Klein
2003 Portrait commission –
Zinedine Zidane
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Sally Trueman Biography:
Biographical information for Sally Trueman can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Pastel
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Camden Town Group - (1911 - 1913)
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Biography Sally Trueman 1960 -
It was a chance encounter at the Pavilion Gallery, which launched Sally Trueman's artistic, she met the Royal portrait painter John Hughes-Hallett, and they remained good friends until his death in 1991. Not surprisingly her work at that time focused on portraiture.
Greatly influenced by her mentor, her portraits were bold, yet sensitive capturing the inner life of her subject. These portraits, particularly those of children, friends and businessmen, now hang in corporate and private collections worldwide.
(Sally Trueman holds the copyright for all John Hughes-Hallett's paintings, except those residing in Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales Art Collections.)
In 2000 Sally and her family moved to the South of France, where she was commissioned to do a series of large canvases depicting the landscape and colour of the region. This had a profound influence on her working style, which can be seen in her interpretation of water and studies of the human form, which she has become well-known for today.
Sally explores through the human figure the theme of intimacy between bodies. The familiarity and closeness of lovers, the chance meeting that turns a stranger into a confident. Set in a world in which figurative painting coexists with abstract patterns, played out by the reflections of light on water.
In 2012, Sally started a new series of oil paintings depicting her relationship with the Kent coast of England, particularly along the Thanet coast line. With this English painter's sense of colour, her paintings allow us to enter a watery world, moody and sensual in nature.
Sally’s work makes up part of the Museum Carcassonne, Brighton Museum collections and the National Portrait Gallery and the Morton private museum in New York. She has had her painting published in a number of magazines and books including, Artists and Illustrator and The Neurobiology of Painting by F. Clifford Rose.
Public Collections
National Portrait Gallery, London
United Kingdom - Lloyds/T.S.B Group
United Kingdom - Brighton Museum Service
United Kingdom - Hove Museum Service
United Kingdom - National Westminster Bank
United Kingdom - Russell Cotes Museum & Art Gallery
United Kingdom - Southampton City Hospital
United Kingdom - Brighton Museum
France - Museum Carcassonne
China – Bank of China
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| Artist Statement |
Artist Statement (February, 2012.)
“The medium that I work in is dictated by the ideas that I have. The relationship between the idea and the material for me is very important. In the last few years, I have worked predominantly in pastel, although it is one of the most permanent mediums, it is also possibly the most fragile.
My ideas and work continue to explore, through the human figure, the theme of “intimacy between bodies”. The familiarity and closeness of lovers or the chance meeting that turns a stranger into a confident. Set in a world in which figurative painting can coexists with abstract patterns, created by the reflections of light on water.
The powder pigments of pastels have a similar quality to the idea of “lovers” — both hover between being there and not being there.
Pastels don’t have the material certainty of oil paints. So the with pastels, it’s almost as if you could blow them away. It’s like dust in the desert.
The choice of medium has to compliment the idea. The pastel medium mirrors the fragility of love. So the relationship between the idea and the material is more fragile executed in pastels then it would be in oil paint. However, the destructive power of love and the weight of unrelinquished love can be portrayed and enhanced with the heavier material such as oil, on canvas.
I am continuing to develop this relationship between the materials that I use to help convey the “idea” in a painting.
The theme “intimacy between bodies” embraces my new series of oil paintings depicting my relationship with the Kent coast of England. Also known as the Garden of England, Kent has many miles of diverse coast line.
Why do I love the sea? It stirs up so many powerful emotions within me, but most of all because of its incredible beauty.”
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. “ Jacques Yves Cousteau |
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