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Tracy Rees Love and Memory
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Published by the New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall Š New Craftsman Gallery Š Images Tracy Rees
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Butterfly Kisses | Acrylic on board 31 x 41 cm right:
ISBN: 978-0-9926590-8-0
Easy Rider | Acrylic on board 21 x 16 cm
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Tracy Rees Love and Memory
24 Fore Street, St Ives Cornwall, TR26 1HE 01736 795652 www.newcraftsmanstives.com
The full exhibition can be viewed on our website All work is for sale from receipt of this catalogue
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Ramblin Rose | Acrylic on board 40 x 30 cm
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Tracy Rees | Love and Memory
Tracy Rees’s distinctive animal ‘portraits’ of our favourite companion creatures in everyday settings are brimming with personality and wry humour. Painting imagined snapshots of the domestic dogs, cats and birds with whom we share our lives and homes, Rees employs the empty backgrounds and spare compositions of classic ancestral portraiture, a technique which lends her paintings a comical grandeur. A harmonious palette of rainbow colours combined with a richly patterned environment of woven rugs, embroidered fabrics, chinoiserie and floral wallpaper adds to the dream-like optimism of these works. Each of Rees’s characters is an appealing, mischievous or disarming individual with whom we are at once familiar and engaged: an elegant greyhound lies poised on a similarly elegant sofa; a silken cat stretches idly across a bedspread with an air of unquestioned entitlement; a wirey terrier sits trembling in the passionate hope of human affection. Her quirky and light hearted acrylic on board paintings are also deeply touching and sincere, and speak warmly of the unique and ancient relationship between man and animal, while the artist’s fluid creature characterizations mirror the truth of our hopeful, emotional selves. Mercedes Smith 2014
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Dog Waiting | Acrylic on board 31 x 42 cm
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Bella | Acrylic on board 30 x 40 cm
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Tea Cup | Acrylic on board 21 x 21 cm
Butterfly Bowl | Acrylic on board 22 x 22 cm
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Earl Grey | Acrylic on board 30 x 28 cm
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Sleepy Head | Acrylic on board 26 x 32 cm
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Old Lace | Acrylic on board 40 x 31 cm
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Mr Blue Sky | Acrylic on board 22 x 29 cm
Little Emperor | Acrylic on board 34 x 27 cm
Sleepy Hollow | Acrylic on board 20 x 16 cm
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Homestead | Acrylic on board 19 x 17 cm
Gob Stoppers | Acrylic on board 25 x 25 cm
Birdy | Acrylic on board 21 x 16 cm
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A Blossom Fell | Acrylic on board 40 x 46 cm
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The Connoisseur | Acrylic on board 30 x 40 cm
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Enchanted | Acrylic on board 30 x 38 cm
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Lemon Tea | Acrylic on board 31 x 40 cm
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Butterfly Kiss | Acrylic on board 30 x 37 cm
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Patchwork | Acrylic on board 30 x 38 cm
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Shadow | Acrylic on board 31 x 40 cm
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Grand Illusion | Acrylic on board 37 x 31 cm
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Butterfly Blue | Acrylic on board 31 x 40 cm
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The artist in her studio, Ludgvan, Cornwall
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Gob Stoppers | Acrylic on board 25 x 20 cm
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