From the Woods to the Water

FROM THE WOODS TO THE WATER

DAVID

BRAYNE & JANE BRAYNE

25 MAY - 15 JUNE 2024

Opening

You are warmly invited to join us on Saturday 25 May, 12-3pm

72 Fore St, Totnes TQ9 5RU

David and Jane will be in attendance All artworks for sale on receipt of this brochure. View full exhibition online at whitespaceart.com

Jane and David met at art college in the eighties. Jane was (and still is) passionate about Bonnard, David was immersed in Picasso’s work. Somehow they got along. Today, they have separate studios in their Somerset home but meet up to look at each other’s work. They are not averse to saying what they think and this actually helps.

Both worked in archaeology. For David this was fleeting but Jane became deeply involved, drawing and surveying on site. She went on to specialise in making illustrations of people and places of the past for English Heritage publications, The British Museum, and on television, where she was series illustrator on Meet the Ancestors for BBC2. Her comic strip book for children is a bestseller at the Stonehenge Visitor Centre.

Her intimate involvement with landscape and a particular interest in surviving fragments of ancient places inform and enrich much of her understated paintings.

David has always painted. Sometimes accused of being intentionally elusive, he views himself as a narrative artist, although the stories he weaves are implicit rather than explicit and left to the viewers to decipher for themselves. He makes his paints from raw pigments, luminous ochres, vibrant blues and greens, resonant blacks. His textured surfaces are built slowly with clear glazes and impasto.

His paintings are held in The Royal Collection and in a number of museums around the world. He was awarded the Turner Medal and is an honorary member of the Royal Watercolour Society. The Watercolour Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) has invited David to take part in their 50th Anniversary Exhibition this summer. This is David and Jane’s first joint exhibition for a long time and both are delighted to be showing together at White Space Art.

DAVID BRAYNE

A Wessex Walk

Watercolour and mixed media

57 x 50cms

£2400

Open Fields (cover)

Watercolour and mixed media

40 x 34cms

£1700

Early Morning Breeze

Watercolour & mixed media

34 x 29cms

£1500

Evening Breeze

Watercolour & mixed media

24 x 34cms

£1500

Diver

Watercolour & mixed media

49 x 62cms

£2600

Rampart & Round Barrows (above)

oil on canvas

60 x 70cms

£1560

Rain in the Rainforest (Wistman’s Wood) oil on panel

44 x 45cms

£1050

76 x 76cms

£1800

Copse and Hedge oil on canvas

Seed Drill

oil on limewood panel

20 x 15cms

£430

Topiary oil on limewood panel

20 x 15cms

£430

Vegetable Plot oil on limewood panel

25 x 15cms

£480

Willow Warblers, Chesil Beach oil on panel

44 x 46cms

£1050

Wheelbarrow in the Orchard oil on panel

44 x 46cms

£1050

Open Net III

Watercolour & mixed media

30 x 28cms

£1160

Reedbed

Watercolour & mixed media

34 x 29cms

£1500

Watercolour & mixed media

30 x 19cms

£1060

Paper Boat

Watercolour & mixed media

29 x 31cms

£1400

Korean Pot With Flowers

DAVID BRAYNE

Fritillaries in the Little Moon Jar

oil on panel

23 x 23cms

£550

Dartmoor Bilberries oil on panel

23 x 23cms

£550

James Grieve

oil on panel

44 x 46cms

£1050

Edge of An Ancient Wood oil on linen

50 x 60cms

£1300

At Dawn

Watercolour and mixed media

57 x 51cms

£2400

Blue Boat

Watercolour & mixed media

48 x 50cms

£1850

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