Shona Nunan
2014
120 x 150 cm
pastel on paper
Shona Nunan
2014
120 x 150 cm
pastel on paper
Shona Nunan
2006
bronze edition 3 of 3
Left 153 x 31 x 12cm Base 37 x 33cm
Michael Francis Cartwright
oil on linen
92 x 73 cm
2007
not available
Michael Francis Cartwright
2009
The main painting for Capital M Beijing restaurant was commissioned to cover the spinal wall of the restaurant. Like a sculpture you have to walk around the painting to see it all as it wraps around and down from the entrance and into the main dining room. Along a small walkway to the restrooms is a painting of ‘The Path’ with fire red bronze cast handle pulls to the rest rooms made by Michael.
The overall theme is of a Journey down a river to the open sea.
After visits to Beijing, the works were finally created in the Bagni di Lucca studios which are on the river Lima. Painted over the year the work responds to the changing seasons and morning walks along the river watching the swirls of the currents and the reflection of clouds in the water and finding Chinese motifs in these.
Before leaving for Beijing the work was exhibited for the public in Bagni di Lucca, in the La Rondine Gallery and the old cinema which had become Michael’s studio for the large section on the work.
The restaurant has now closed and the painting has been reinstalled into the newly renovated M on the Bund.
Michael Francis Cartwright
2009
oil on linen painting
Michael Francis Cartwright
2006
oil on linen painting
190 x 150 cm
not available
Michael Francis Cartwright
2006
oil on linen painting
190 x 150 cm
We had recently moved into our new studios in Ponte a Serraglio in the hills of Tuscany and I decided to try and ‘get to know’ where I was living through my art. I began painting small sketches of the hills but soon tired of this. I decided to take one of the greats, perhaps I could learn something. This is one of the early works in the series and they slowly became more abstracted, fell apart and became primitive and mask-like. I played with colour form and size. Most of the works from this series fell into disrepair.
Nous venions d’emménager dans nos nouveaux studios à Ponte a Serraglio, dans les collines de Toscane, et j’ai décidé d’essayer de “connaître” l’endroit où je vivais à travers mon art. J’ai commencé à peindre de petites esquisses des collines, mais je m’en suis vite lassé. J’ai décidé de prendre un des grands, peut-être pourrais-je apprendre quelque chose. C’est l’une des premières œuvres de la série et elles sont devenues lentement plus abstraites, se sont désagrégées et sont devenues primitives et ressemblent à des masques. J’ai joué avec la couleur, la forme et la taille. La plupart des œuvres de cette série sont tombées en ruine.
Michael Francis Cartwright
2006
oil on linen painting
190 x 150 cm
Michael Francis Cartwright
2006
oil on linen painting
190 x 150 cm
Michael Francis Cartwright
2007-2008
oil on linen
190 x 150 cm
not available