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Francesca Owen

Bouquet in Orange, Pink and Green

Bouquet in Orange, Pink and Green

oil on canvas
30 x 20cm
£895
Especially in his absence, she would greatly attend to the flowers

Especially in his absence, she would greatly attend to the flowers

oil on canvas
133 x 103cm
£6950
In Renoir’s Garden

In Renoir’s Garden

oil on canvas
140 x 190cm
£7950
Lilac and Green

Lilac and Green

oil on canvas
30 x 20cm
£895
Pink Ribbons, Crimson Vase

Pink Ribbons, Crimson Vase

oil on canvas
30 x 20cm
£895
Still Life, Studio Flowers

Still Life, Studio Flowers

oil on canvas
30 x 20cm
£895
The garden dances even while the roses sleep

The garden dances even while the roses sleep

oil on canvas
140 x 190cm
£7950

«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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