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AUSTEN PINKERTON
NARBERTH, PEMBROKESHIRE - United Kingdom



Original Artworks (262)

Austen Pinkerton; Torso Number 2, 2024, Original Drawing Crayon, 30 x 42 cm. Artwork description: 241 VIEW OF REPRODUCTION CLASSICAL SCULPTURE...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Crayon Drawing, 2024
30 x 42 cm (11.8 x 16.5 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Ozymandias King Of Kings, 2023, Original Drawing Crayon, 55 x 37 cm. Artwork description: 241 Just completed:  Ozymandias, King of Kings .Crayon, Ink,   White Gouache on Daler Line Wash board. 55 x 37 cm. I used an image of one of the pair of gigantic Collossii of Memnon as a starting point.The title refers to the short poem by Percy Bysshe ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Crayon Drawing, 2023
55 x 37 cm (21.7 x 14.6 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Sheeps Skull In A Landscape, 2022, Original Painting Acrylic, 42 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 Skull of a sheep facing left, resting on loose rocks and stones. Backgound of huills and distant mountains. Tibetan prayer flags blowing in wind overhead. ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Acrylic Painting, 2022
42 x 30 cm (16.5 x 11.8 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Tenby Harbour, 2022, Original Mixed Media, 41 x 29 cm. Artwork description: 241 Just finished:  Tenby Harbour . Worked up from a plein air colour sketch. 29 x 41cm.Coloured Crayon,Pastel, Gouache,   Inkon coloured pastel paper....
Austen Pinkerton
Original Mixed Media, 2022
41 x 29 cm (16.1 x 11.4 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Audrey, 2022, Original Drawing Pastel, 39 x 51 cm. Artwork description: 241 Drawn from life at Narberth Museum Life Drawing Group ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Pastel Drawing, 2022
39 x 51 cm (15.4 x 20.1 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; When Stars Collide, 2022, Original Sculpture Limestone, 25 x 22 cm. Artwork description: 241 I fully intended to make this stone piece an enlarged version of the maquette  Sleeping Woman , which after all is why one makes a maquette in the first place, but when it came to it I just attacked the piece of stone  blind , which was much more ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Limestone Sculpture, 2022
25 x 22 cm (9.8 x 8.7 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Sleeping Woman, 2022, Original Sculpture Clay, 10 x 6 cm. Artwork description: 241 This was intended to be a small maquette for a sculpture in stone:  When Stars Collide . In the event they became two very different artworks. ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Clay Sculpture, 2022
10 x 6 cm (3.9 x 2.4 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Indigo 04 02 2022, 2022, Original Drawing Other, 34 x 49 cm. Artwork description: 241 Artists model Indigo Latto, drawn from life at Narberth Art Group Life Drawing sessions on 4th February 2022 ...
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Original Other Drawing, 2022
34 x 49 cm (13.4 x 19.3 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Crop Circles, 2022, Original Painting Acrylic, 122 x 92 cm. Artwork description: 241 Crop Circles are a reality. They happen. Now. Frequently. All across the globe. Despite puerile attempts to copy or manufacture them, the vast majority appear overnight or in unfeasably short periods of time, often accompanied by strange lights. Regardless of what respected  experts  such as Professor Brian ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Acrylic Painting, 2022
122 x 92 cm (48.0 x 36.2 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; St Pauls Bay Malta, 2021, Original Painting Other, 29 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241 Last week got round to finishing the colour drawing I produced when in Malta in October:  St Pauls Bay , so called apparently because St Paul actually was shipwrecked there on the island to the right where there s a statue of him. ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Other Painting, 2021
29 x 20 cm (11.4 x 7.9 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Spire, 2021, Original Sculpture Ceramic, 22 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 People climbing over eachother to reach what. . . . to reach nothing but empty space. ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Ceramic Sculpture, 2021
22 x 30 cm (8.7 x 11.8 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Indigo Portrait Drawing, 2021, Original Drawing Pencil, 24 x 48 cm. Artwork description: 241 indigo portrait drawing...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Pencil Drawing, 2021
24 x 48 cm (9.4 x 18.9 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Indigo On Garden Bench, 2021, Original Drawing Pencil, 48 x 24 cm. Artwork description: 241 Sketch of artist model Indigo Latto in garden at my home in South West Wales...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Pencil Drawing, 2021
48 x 24 cm (18.9 x 9.4 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Ghost Crab, 2021, Original Pastel, 40 x 27 cm. Artwork description: 241 Where we go on holiday. . . Dalyan in Turkey, the beaches have these tiny crabs that live in holes in the sand and chase the surf.Astrologically my birthday is on July 17th, which makes me a aEUR~double canceraEURtm. . . cancer ascendant, and cancer sun sign. The symbol for ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Pastel, 2021
40 x 27 cm (15.7 x 10.6 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Daffodils, 2021, Original Pastel, 35 x 45 cm. Artwork description: 241 Every year at this time I try to do a Daffodils picture. They represent Spring. This year an experiment: In Pastel on coloured Ingres paper. ...
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Original Pastel, 2021
35 x 45 cm (13.8 x 17.7 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Self Portrait February 2021, 2021, Original Pastel, 48 x 34 cm. Artwork description: 241 Colour companion piece to January monochroma work...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Pastel, 2021
48 x 34 cm (18.9 x 13.4 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Self Portrait January 2021, 2021, Original Drawing Graphite, 48 x 34 cm. Artwork description: 241 Just felt it was time to do another Self Portrait...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Graphite Drawing, 2021
48 x 34 cm (18.9 x 13.4 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Indigo 13, 2020, Original Drawing Other, 37 x 55 cm. Artwork description: 241  December 18th, Narberth Art Group just before lockdown.  pencil drawing with pastel highlights on coloured ingres paper. ...
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Original Other Drawing, 2020
37 x 55 cm (14.6 x 21.7 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Picton Castle, 2020, Original Drawing Crayon, 42 x 28 cm. Artwork description: 241 Started it in the summer as a plein- air sketch in colour with Narberth Art Group, but when I got it home it seemed to acquire a life of its own. No apologies for the final result. ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Crayon Drawing, 2020
42 x 28 cm (16.5 x 11.0 inches)
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Austen Pinkerton; Picton Castle, 2020, Original Drawing Crayon, 41 x 28 cm. Artwork description: 241 Picton Castle.  Started it in the summer as a plein- air sketch in colour with Narberth Art Group, but when I got it home it seemed to acquire a life of its own. ...
Austen Pinkerton
Original Crayon Drawing, 2020
41 x 28 cm (16.1 x 11.0 inches)
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Artist Videos

Introducing the painting Footprints In The Sand
A Selection of Earlier Artworks by Austen Pinkerton Part 1
A selection of Artworks by Austen Pinkerton Part 1
Aeolus God of the Four Winds Work in progress


Artist Statement


Austen Pinkerton

If I turn my mind to it very quickly I can come up with several ideas for works …paintings, drawings, or sculptures.
Sometimes ideas come to me when I least expect it, or when my mind is on other things. Ideas can be related to my current experiences, or to my feelings about things that are happening to me in my life at that particular time. Alternatively they can be related to a current interest, or something that occupies my attention at that moment, and my ideas and feelings about which Id like to share with others.
A lot of my work is autobiographical…either directly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously. It is frequently very personal, and expresses events or circumstances or experiences in my life.
I usually work in either Acrylic on Canvas, Crayon or Pastel, or both together, with Gouache, on card, Drawing in pencil, or Ink, or both, or with creating Sculpture…for which I use fired artists clay. Sculpture follows a completely different set of rules and values from two-dimensional art, obviously, I think of it as Drawing in three dimensions and I take this into account when creating mine. In all my works of art, however, or from whatever, they are made, what they crucially entail, to me, are craftsmanship and beauty, but above all content and meaning.
When I have an idea I execute it, and when I begin to execute it, at least after the initial layout phase, the creation process becomes to some extent automatic, especially the further into the work I get. I dont give a great deal of thought to what I am doing , but probably pay more attention to the music Im listening to than to the creative process ......especially since I very frequently will work on a picture upside down in its later stages. This may explain in part why I frequently do not understand how certain things have appeared in my works.
As a result of this it often happens that when I look at a work again that I’ve made, maybe after several years, that I will be surprised at how it has worked out, at why I did certain things, and especially what the work is ‘about’…i.e. it’s underlying meaning. Often I see the meaning of a work more clearly after coming back to it after many years.





Biography Austen Pinkerton


Austen Pinkerton was born in 1951 in North Harrow, north-west London, and educated locally at Pinner County Grammar School, leaving with nine O ordinary level, and four A advanced level passes.
On leaving school he began study at the Oxford School of Architecture, where he spent the first two years, before it being suggested that he should consider transferring to Art College, as a result of pictures he included in an end of term exhibition.
He then went to Goldsmiths College, London University, School of Art, graduating in 1976 with a Batchelor of Arts Fine Art Painting.
At Goldsmiths School of Art the Principal was Jon Thompson, later mentor to the likes of Damian Hurst, and his tutors included the artists Albert Irvin, Basil Beatty, and Andrew Brighton, later to be curator of public events at Tate Modern. The painting school was in the old Surrey Docks Office building, Rotherhithe, from which there was a burglary, and six of his paintings were stolen and none by any other student to his knowlege. None have ever been recovered.
After leaving Goldsmiths he returned to architecture in order to earn a living and subsequently worked for about 30 years part-time in a variety of Architectural- related fields, whilst continuing to Paint, Draw, and make Sculptures. For a while he was illustrating and designing the interiors of English traditional pubs in this country, and also, later, abroad,... notably Italy, France and Spain. He has also worked on interior refurbishments of the Law Society, and the Royal College Of Surgeons.
Meanwhile he exhibited his work at many galleries in London,…in particular The Blackheath Gallery, Krane arts, the contemporary arts wing of Krane Kalman, also The Talent Store, Graffitti Gallery, Gagliardi Gallery, and, repeatedly, at The Horniman Museum, South London, and the Gloucester Gallery, Kensington, run by Joan Catlin, former Registrar of The Royal College Of Art, and to one of which exhibitions Sir Eduardo Paolozzi visited by invitation to see his work.
Between 1990 and 1996 he opened and ran a gallery in East Dulwich, south London, ..The Austen Pinkerton Gallery , showing his own work. At this time he was commissioned to produce a series of illustrations for the Times Higher Educational Supplement.
He has had numerous private commissions, most notably three very large installed paintings at No 36 Wharton Street, Islington, which began initially with a picture for Major Hamish Forbes, Director of the Museum of the Order of St. John, St. Johns Gate, and former resident of Colditz. When this picture was moved to a new house another was commissioned by the new owner. and the same again when that moved with its owner.
Up until August 2007 he worked part time for the architect Richard Lincoln and also with the Interior Designer Chester Jones on High End Residential properties in central London. Included amongst these was Sir Ridley Scotts house in Hampstead.
Meanwhile he continued to paint, draw, and make sculptures.
From August 2007 to October 2008 he worked part-time for Chistopher Smallwood Architects, Fulham, London, as a Senior Architectural Technician.
As a result of the collapse in the construction industry in 2008 he set up his own business in partnership with the photographer Stephen Street as a general builder, whilst continuing to work as an artist on average two days a week.
Due to a presence on the American website ‘Absolutearts’, and the British...   Read More