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New Year Exhibition

2013

7th January - 22nd February

Private View Tuesday, 15th January

6pm - 8.30pm

Brian Graham

Bridget Leaman

Caroline Doyle

Cristiano Di Martino

Deborah Tarr

Fabienne Delli Zotti

Gabriele Cappelli

Hans O. Bergman

Maiju Tirri

Roger Stephens

Scott Blaser

Sofia Petropoulou

Presenting new work by some of the finest abstract artists working today, this New Year exhibition is a strong collection of paintings and sculpture chosen to complement each other and form a compelling show. We are proud to be showing Brian Graham, Sofia Petropoulou, Roger Stephens, Scott Blaser and Cristiano Di Martino for the first time. Greek, Italian, Finnish, French, American, Swedish and of course British, this is a very international mix of artists — though distinctly individual we feel that there is a common thread that unites them all. The bold use of colour, line and form in each of these unique and personal works of art creates a powerful, cohesive exhibition. We are delighted to begin 2013 at Cadogan Contemporary in this manner. Happy New Year!

Brian Graham

Brian Graham’s fascination with the ancient history of our ancestors and archaeology drives the subject matter of his paintings. With a vivid yet limited palette, Graham evokes deep contrasts and bold contours that emphasise the fossils of prehistory that inspire him. Graham won first prize at the 1992 Royal West of England Academy’s Annual exhibition and subsequently was invited to have a solo show in Cork Street, in 1995 and 1996. Exhibiting regularly with the Hart gallery over the past two decades, Brian has exhibited numerously in group shows at the Royal College of Art and throughout England and Europe. His work is to be found in several prestigious private collections and many of his collectors are promi-nent in the study of human origins. The National History Museum, London, possesses and has exhibited one of his portfolio of works For many years Brian acted as the Visual Art consultant for Bournemouth University and in 2008 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts. ‘..it is Graham’s unrelenting dedication to his subject matter, his innate understanding of the land on which he walks every day, his imagination and his ability as a painter that en-ables him to create works that offer a lasting tribute to our ancestors’ survival..’

– Charlotte Mullins, Art Critic and Broadcaster

Winter Peninsula Oil on canvas

48”x 60”/122cm x 152cm

Boxgrove, Revealed Floor Oil on canvas 48” x 60” / 122 x 152cm

Bridget Leaman

Bridget’s studio is almost entirely surrounded by sea; the Atlantic at the front door, the Channel at the back and the springy grass of cliff-top fields for the daily walks that are so vital to her. Collected internationally, her paintings are by no means traditional landscapes yet the power of the Cornish sea cliffs of the Lizard surrounding her is manifest in her abstract can-vasses and are what make her pieces so appealing. Leaman’s paintings operate in the ten-sions between stillness and movement, solidity and transience, colours, light and textures. ‘Surrounded, as I am, by the ocean and its wide horizons and the stark land that meets it, it’s not surprising to see their influence in my work. A red flash, rain soaked greens, a wet stone, black caves, patterns on the sea or sand and the grooves and scars that are scattered across wind torn lands, all and more seep into my subconscious and inform my paintings. ‘

– Bridget

Fanfare Oil on canvas

60”x 60”/152cm x 152cm

Caroline Doyle

Having achieved her BA in Fine Art at the Central St Martin’s School of Art in 1991, Caroline continued in her studies getting her MA at the Royal College of Art, London. Exhibiting with Cadogan Contemporary over the past two decades, Doyle’s work has con-stantly evolved moving from abstract to figurative and back again. She has work held in private and public collection in the UK including Oxford University and Bedford College , as well as in the United States. With her delicate use of colour and touch the paintings seem to evoke a universal sense of memory.

Pieces of Me Acrylic, pastel and pencil 36”x 36”/ 91cm x 91cm

Roger Stephens Two from One

Kilkenny Fossil Limestone 14”x 12” x 11”/ 35cm x 30cm x 27cm

Cristiano Di Martino

Cristiano Di Martino is a young Italian artist working in Florence, with a particular interest in the landscapes of home. Born in 1989, Cristiano studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Flor-ence. Being surrounded by the most iconic treasures of art history has been a huge influ-ence and recently he has participated in collective exhibitions researching both the history and documentation of Art in Florence and the city’s underground studios. Employing the classic materials that have been used for centuries, Cristiano applies them in a contemporary manner so his canvasses, deep and drenched with paint, cross the bounda-ries of time. Di Martino has exhibited widely across Italy; but these are the first of his pictures to be seen in London.

Studio di Paessagio n I Oil spray on canvas

27.5”x 31”/ 70cm x 80cm

Deborah Tarr

Highlighted by the huge success of her recent one-man exhibition with Cadogan Contempo-rary, Deborah’s works are widely collected internationally both publicly and privately. Her works have recently been shown in Chicago, in association with The Art Institute of Chi-cago. Having graduated from the Winchester School of Fine art in 1988, Deborah lived and worked in Paris for a few years. Since returning to England she has exhibited throughout the country and acquired a multitude of high-profile supporters. Now painting from studios in Cheshire and Primrose Hill, London, Deborah embraces this regular movement of travel from town to country, drawing upon the constant changing world around her for inspiration. Lyrical and abstract yet firmly rooted in nature, Tarr’s paintings have a timeless poetry and elegance. Often the artists handpicks and restores striking frames which become part of the stunning beauty of her work.

Hyde Park Oil on canvas

37”x 32”/ 15cm x 91cm

Fabienne Delli Zotti

Fabienne Delli Zotti was born in Luxembourg 1967, where she later attended art school before travelling to Chicago to study dance, training for Gus Giordano’s troupe. Living in Paris for the past 20 years, Fabienne has exhibited in Paris and Cannes as well as the Art Expo in New York, 2011. Her work is often in diptych form, using the canvas structure itself to influence the composition. ‘The viewer is immediately absorbed by these bas relief landscapes whose immutable and mysterious mineral aspect reveal the strong voice of the artist. Connecting the viewer with other worlds, she initiates us into her mysteries. Earth, rock and soul: an alchemy which permits us to feel the timelessness of her works... Fabienne Delli Zotti paints sculptures or sculpts paintings which extend the physical limits of their frames.’

- Translated extract from Marianne Vic Orlowsk

Cavernes Oil on canvas

60”x 60”/ 152cm x 152cm

Gabriele Cappelli

Born in Forli, Italy, Gabriele travelled the world until dedicating himself to painting. He was inspired to paint from a young age through spending time at his grandfather's art studio in Rome, and through him and fellow artists he inherited a passion for abstract art, with a par-ticular interest in the use of gold. Gabriele had his first solo show in London in 2000 and subsequently started to exhibit fre-quently around England, as well as continuing to exhibit in his home of Italy. In 2005, he was supported by the Italian Cultural Institute for his exhibition with a fellow Italian painter at the Artbank gallery. His works are held in numerous private collections throughout Europe. ‘The introduction of metallic powder transforms the colours with which it is mixed and offers another dimension to the composition. Once the whole has been registered, the eye is un-avoidably drawn to the painting’s surface. The gold infused pigment, juxtaposed with, or placed against a predominantly earthy palette – rich, sonorous reds, creams or back – gives the colours substance.’

- Libby Anson

Composition with Red background II Mixed media on canvas

48”x 60”/ 122cm x 152cm

Hans O. Bergman

Born in 1951 in Malmo, Bergman now lives and works near Gothenburg, Sweden. Bergman has exhibited throughout Sweden and Scandinavia and has been highly commended in many International Art Fairs. “The interaction between form and colour is essential to me when I work: when there is har-mony between the spontaneous and the planned painting, the best result is achieved. My works are mainly oil on canvas, using the brush and the painting knife as my tools. I also make use of different materials, such as cardboard, sackcloth, etc, and often try new approaches in my work; anything to achieve an exciting and imaginative result.”

Hans O. Bergman ‘Freedom lives in his hand (or we could say his heart). Truthfully, it’s not often that I have seen a painting, traces on a canvas, that conveys such immeasurably great freedom as is found in his pictures. Hans O. Bergman takes freedoms. He attacks the canvas with absolute power and sensitivity, and most of all with freedom. It is a freedom that can make the observer happy; a physical freedom. There is art that has a natural beginning and a determined end – nothing wrong with that type of painting. But then there are artists like (Hans O. Bergman) who have decided that the only thing in life that is worth anything is freedom of spirit, expressed through painting for example, through pictures.’

Stig Åke Stålnacke International Art Critical Association, IACA

Untitled VIII Oil on canvas

52”x 40”/ 130cm x 100 cm

Maiju Tirri

Finnish artist Maiju Tirri initially studied Fine Art in Michigan, USA, before developing a career in graphic design. Continuing to create she was eventually drawn back into fine art full-time and started to exhibit frequently in Finland as well as Italy, Monaco and France. She recently became an adjudicator for the 2012 Annual Spring Art competition held by the Ministry of Cul-ture in Gibraltar. Maiju’s paintings are inspired by nature, her surroundings deeply influencing her works and the thickly layered and heavily textured canvasses become almost sculptural on the wall.

Maiju’s first solo exhibition in England, with Cadogan Contemporary in the summer of 2012 was a great success with praise from the Finnish ambassador, Mr Pekka Huhtaniemi.

‘The constant movement and flow in nature will be placed in the inner flow, growth, and movement. I´m researching how to reach a moment’s standstill as well as the continuing movement and flow of life and universe and how to put that experience on canvas. I´m not painting pictures but stories.’

-Maiju

Beauty and the Beast Mixed media on canvas

58” x 46” / 148cm x 117cm

Roger Stephens

After working for many years in various jobs in and out the art world, Roger Stephens started to full-fill his lifelong ambition to become a sculptor and became a Stone Mason at Salisbury cathedral. For nine-years he developed his skill, working on the Spire, Tower and West front carving gargoyles, heads and stops, before becoming a full time sculptor. Roger’s remarkable talent with his materials create pieces of beauty and extraordinary form. His tactile pieces invite the viewer to touch and feel the contrasting materials and smooth lines engage both physical and intellectual ideas. He has had many significant commissions for both private collections and public, including the design and creation of sculptural seats in granite for the Porter’s Garden, in the Historic Dock-yard, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth. Exhibiting in London for the first time at the Mall galleries as part of the Discerning eye exhibition in 2002, Roger’s works have been shown frequently and widely across England winning various prizes over the years.

Nunc Dimitus Alabaster on Acrylic plinth

10” x 8” x 17” / 24cm x 20cm x 43cm

Scott Blaser

American born Scott graduated from City and Guilds London Art School in 2010, and subse-quently exhibited in the London/Berlin Anschlüssel and the London Original Print fair. Since then he has been the Artist in residence at the Caroline Wiseman gallery in Aldeburgh, and in November this year took many of his works home to the States for a wonderfully re-ceived solo show in Utah. Blaser’s large, dominant paintings take hold of the viewer combining the order and struc-ture of composition with a looseness of the paint. ‘There is something undeniably fragile about the solid blocks of greys and blacks that com-prise some of these works. And then again, there is something undeniably grave about their lightness of touch. I can’t decide if one description is closer to the experience of them than the other, so I will have to settle for both.’

Teresita Dennis

Bounce Oil on canvas

66” x 71” / 168cm x 182cm

Sofia Petropoulou

Born in 1964, Greek painter Sofia Petropoulou currently lives in Athens after nine years in Luxembourg. A member of the Chamber of Fine Arts in Greece, she has shown broadly in Greece and Europe. In 2008 Sofia exhibited at the Frieze Art fair in London and continues to establish herself as an important abstract artist. Large canvases allow spontaneity and improvisation, resulting in a more gestural style as her spatula runs freely over the surface of the canvas. Her palette is limited to mono-chromatic variations, so colours become the sole determinant of light, form and composition. ‘... One can observe once more that Petropoulou does not escape from real sources, yet permits colour and gesture to dictate composition, eventually suspending the original subject and permitting the action of painting to transform and determine the final image. Petropoulou commented on the chance qualities of her pictorial path as the principal challenge when she stands before a blank canvas. A blank canvas functions as provoca-tion. It begins a creative path where ideas and sentiments of the artist come together... becoming a challenge of the unknown... following the proposals of inspiration.’

—Maria Halkias, PhD

Passion Oil on canvas

63” x 63” / 162cm x 162cm

Avignon Oil on canvas 56” x 63” / 143 x 162cm

Roger Stephens Circumbendibus Carrara Marble on Derbyshire Limestone 30”x 14” x 7” / 75cm x 35cm x 17cm