The Fairfax Gallery - Solo Show - Chelsea, October 2006
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The Fairfax Gallery has great pleasure in presenting the catalogue of new work by John Marshall for his eagerly awaited solo show. John Marshall New Work 6th - 21st October 2006 Private View 5th October To purchase paintings or for an invitation to the private view please call 020 7751 4477 or 07887 911 977 To avoid disappointmet, please be aware that works illustrated are available to purchase on receipt of this catalogue. 5 Park Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 |
John Marshall has achieved recognition as 'The Cow Painter'; resulting from his devotion to this one subject throughout the past ten years. In so doing he has created his own cow genre. Technical and compositional progression throughout this period has ensured that his work remains highly sought after and enduringly popular, He has had a series of sell-out solo exhibitions in London and Paris, and his work is in collections across America and the rest of the world. Working from his Sussex studio, he has regularly exhibited with the Fairfax Gallery since 2000, who now act as his exclusive representatives in London. The work prepared for this exhibiton focuses on portraiture in its purest sense, subverting the tradition of the English rural painter his paintings are not documents of rural property, or evocations of a pastoral idyll, quite the opposite in fact - these cows are, if not urban, persistently urbane. John Marshall's unique talent lies in his ability to draw out the individual characteristics of his bovine subjects. These paintings are essentially character studies, portraits of cows with big, and diverse, personalities. This exhibition of new paintings is united by its thematic titles; a confectionary of sugar-coated descriptions, titles which impart a quality of the absurb to each cow, although frivolous they are absolutely welded to the character of each. These titles act as keys to the mood of each work. Overall the approach is a theatrical one, the painter wishing to engender an affectionate relationship between viewer and subject. And in this he is effective, as each owner of a John Marshall 'cow' will testify. Text by: Vivienne Edkins, Fairfax Gallery. |
1. 'Vanilla Ice' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £3,800 SOLD |  |
2. 'Fruits of the Forest' Oil on Canvas 28 x 39 ins £3,700 SOLD |  |
3. 'Butter Icing' Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 ins £2,400 SOLD |  |
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| 4. 'Strawberry Float' Oil on Canvas 16 x 47 ins £3,700 SOLD |
5. 'Glace Royale' Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 ins £2,400 SOLD |  |
6. 'Dairy Mint' Oil on Canvas 20 x 30 ins £2,800 SOLD |  |
7. 'Two Fat Lady Acrobats and One Thin One' Oil on Canvas 24 x 20 ins £2,800 SOLD |  |
8. 'Butter Whisk' Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 ins £2,400 SOLD |  |
9. 'Bovi Stop' Oil on Canvas 36 x 48 ins £4,200 |  |
10. 'Russian Rhubarb' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £2,400 SOLD |  |
11. 'Raspberry with a Flake' Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 ins £3,800 SOLD |  |
12. 'Walnut Whip' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £2,400 SOLD |  |
13. 'Meringue' Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 ins £2,400 SOLD |  |
14. 'Rum Baba' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £3,800 SOLD |
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Paintings not included in the catalogue........
15. 'Biarritz Biscuit' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £2,500 SOLD |
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16. 'Ginger Watermelon' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £3,800 |
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17. 'Fondant' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £2,500 SOLD | |
18. 'Ginger to my Fred' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £3,800 SOLD | |
19. 'Brioche' Oil on Canvas 40 x 30 ins £3,800 | |
20. 'Mint Sugar' Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 ins £3,800 SOLD | |
21. 'Pecan Pie' Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 ins £2,400 SOLD | |
