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Francesca Owen

Bouquet in arancione, rosa e verde

Bouquet in arancione, rosa e verde

olio su tela
30 x 20 cm
Il giardino danza anche quando le rose dormono

Il giardino danza anche quando le rose dormono

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140 x 190 cm
Lilla e verde

Lilla e verde

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30 x 20 cm
Nastri rosa, vaso cremisi

Nastri rosa, vaso cremisi

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30 x 20 cm
Natura morta, Fiori in studio

Natura morta, Fiori in studio

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30 x 20 cm
Nel giardino di Renoir

Nel giardino di Renoir

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140 x 190 cm
Soprattutto in sua assenza, si occupava molto dei fiori.

Soprattutto in sua assenza, si occupava molto dei fiori.

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133 x 103 cm

“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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