Anne redpath

I have an old nabour who is also an artist. Very occasionally we talk about art. Once he asked me who my favourite artists were. I named people like Rik Wouters, Helene Schjerfbeck, Isaac Israels, Eric Ravilious and Joan Eardly. All well and good, but they weren't the Great Masters! True. I fall more for the lesser gods than for big names like Rubens, Rembrandt or Picasso. The Scottish artist I wanted to show today, Anne Redpath (1895-1965) is again one of the lesser gods, but I love her…

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This is one of a number of still lifes and interiors which Redpath painted at her home in Beaconsfield Terrace, Hawick, during the 1940s. In 1947 a reporter described the artist's sitting room: 'Immediately on entering... I felt as though I had stepped into one of her pictures. There was a tea tray standing on a little table as I had so often seen it, and, as on the painted tables, the cups did not match! On the mantelpiece were familiar pieces of crockery - a pink and white teapot, a…

The vivid colours and flat patterning of this painting owe much to Matisse, while the 'tipped-up' perspective reflects Redpath's admiration for early Italian painting. Redpath was fascinated by colour and texture. In this painting, the pattern of the rug meshes with the shapes of the slippers and chair to such a degree that it is difficult to separate flat from three-dimensional form. Redpath's father designed tweed fabrics and her work has the sense of patterning sometimes found in…

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After watching two documentaries by Michael Palin, one on the subject of The Colourists and the other on Anne Redpath, I was instantly captivated by this fresh and vibrant wave of art in the first …

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This is one of a number of paintings of the 1940s which show different views of the artist’s home at Beaconsfield Terrace, Hawick. Redpath had a great fondness for including domestic objects in her paintings. Redpath stated that she liked the rooms of her house to have white walls.The walls serve to highlight and intensify the rich, bright colours used in the rest of the room. The painting shows the ‘tipped-up’ perspective Redpath often used to give a flattened, richly decorated effect.

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