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Francesca Owen

Blumenstrauß in Orange, Rosa und Grün

Blumenstrauß in Orange, Rosa und Grün

Öl auf Leinwand
30 x 20cm
Der Garten tanzt, auch wenn die Rosen schlafen

Der Garten tanzt, auch wenn die Rosen schlafen

Öl auf Leinwand
140 x 190cm
Flieder und Grün

Flieder und Grün

Öl auf Leinwand
30 x 20cm
In Renoirs Garten

In Renoirs Garten

Öl auf Leinwand
140 x 190cm
Rosa Bänder, karminrote Vase

Rosa Bänder, karminrote Vase

Öl auf Leinwand
30 x 20cm
Stillleben, Studio Blumen

Stillleben, Studio Blumen

Öl auf Leinwand
30 x 20cm

„Some of my most favourite days are ‘nothing days’. These are the days when a storm is raging and no one is outside. These are the days when the mind is most clear for painting. I enjoy the feeling of colours gliding on the surface of the canvas – a world of possibilites. The theme of gardens, figures and flowers make their appearance.

I may turn to the Impressionists books or older paintings I have made to look for more colour or stories unresolved. Looking back is looking forwards and space on ‘nothing days’ is when this comes. I think of what my tutors said at Slade when I had just started art school. A younger me still fixated on themes of nature and travel, figures and gardens. Colour then seemed somewhat aggressive as I had less experience so now I look for a softer but still strong approach. 

I have always enjoyed the heaviness in the body of paint itself. Making it almost sculptural in application and layers. Dreams of gardens, flowers, figures all come into existence in my world of painting. Gardens are a kind of utopia; a place of memory, love and healing. Flowers are symbols of different parts of ourselves that we want to hold onto or forget, the figure is there because it’s you and you’re seeing the work and you’re in it and because that’s how we see the world. All these things just appear in their own way as I am painting.

I want my work to convey love, beauty, nature and all of this must be included and balanced. For me to feel that it is conclusive, it is finished or that it has arrived from somewhere else and into this world.“

Francesca Owen is an award-winning painter. a former student and recipient of two scholarships at the Slade School of Fine Art, including the Euan Uglow memorial scholarship and the Painters Stainers Prize.​ She also studied at Falmouth University and lives and works in the south west of Cornwall. Francesca’s paintings are held with collectors across the UK, Europe and USA

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