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Roy and Jason Petley have great pleasure in presenting to you our

Winter Exhibition

Focusing on starting a collection, we hope that you will come and enjoy a glass of champagne with us and appreciate the works of what we believe are some of Europe’s finest artists.

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Petleys is proud to invite you to our annual Exhibition of Drawings. This year we have combined new and old, with works by Paul Bartlett, Edward Beale, Francesco-Guiseppe Casanova, Marc Chagall, Saied Dai, Paul Ceasar Helleu, Bob Jackson, Augustus John, Peter Kuhfeld, Henri Lebasque, Henri Matisse, Ambrose McEvoy, Sir William Orpen, Roy Petley, Pablo Picasso, Vicente Romero, Charlotte Sorapure, Edward Stotts, Caspar Pieter Verbruggen, Lucy Kemp Welch, Antony Williams, Robbie Wraith, Martin Yeoman.

In the world of Art today there is so much confusion as to what is Art. For instance, drawing to some has been redefined as mark making. To me this is far too crude an expression to describe something that not only involves the total coordination of your eye, mind and hand but also all your feelings about what is in front of you and indeed around you at a specific point in time. Mark making by contrast is the difference between signing your name and taking a thumb print. What sparks people off into drawing? In my own case I remember really enjoying it from the age of five. The desire grew inside me I think and later, by looking at books that had great drawings in them, with one book in particular on Rembrandt that fully opened my aspirations. Within that book, it had the all-time great drawing of ‘Two women teaching a child to walk’ which was probably made in under a minute.

What an example! Maybe though it would mean nothing to you if you have no feeling for it. Those of us who wanted to draw when we were children would come back to a drawing such as this and sit and wonder at how someone had managed to capture something so fleeting and convey such life. In my middle years I am still in the same state of wonder at that drawing and so many others, and will be till the day I die. So if you are young or if you are old and have been reading this, stop now and sit for a very long time and look at Rembrandt’s great drawing reproduced opposite.

Then come and see the exhibition and enjoy the works of acknowledged Masters in drawing from the 19th and 20th century alongside people who draw today. Make your own mind up on how far, or even how not so far, we have got with this great and strangely undervalued art.

by Martin Yeoman

 

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Petleys is proud to invite you to an exhibition of paintings from the artists studio which will be a taste of forthcoming exhibitions.

Leafing through our catalogue, you will see recent works by Edward Beale, Colin Fraser, Yuri Krotov, Peter Kuhfeld, Roy Petley, Vicente Romero, Igor Shipilin and Martin Yeoman.  
We see views of the Thames by Edward Beale – he has most recently been painting from the Old Battersea Firestation and amongst his works can be seen views of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Amongst this collection of his works are works from the South of France and London.

With Colin Fraser we have his intriguing interiors where we can see the subtle play of light and shade and how it interacts with a myriad of objects, living, stone, glass, material and flowers.

Yuri has just arrived with all his new work for his exhibition in October. Views of children enjoying their holidays, summer lunches, light and shade (his passion!) and beautiful young ladies instil us with a sense of good feeling and optimism for the Summer.
We have a soupcon of masterly interiors by Peter Kuhfeld:, nudes and form executed in his studio with the reflections of light between different angles of mirrors leave us with a sense of wonder.

Roy Petley continues to delight us with his most impassioned inspirational subjects, new works from his favourite painting spots in Paris, Venice and the Dordogne. Dappled light, bustling summer sun and good feeling flow from his paintings directly to our souls, filling us and enveloping us in a sense of warm euphoria.
Vicente Romero continues to impress us with his sense of light and colour in his pastels, with a depth of detail that is not immediately apparent to the eye we see forms and figures, almost in an ethereal light that make us want to step into the vibrant works end enjoy the way of life ourselves.

The uniquely painted and textured works of Igor Shipilin create a sense of difference to the eye, with two new works of the Russian countryside in summer.

Martin Yeoman continues to inspire us, with his masterly draughtsmanship, gentle lines and soft colours we are caressed into his paintings to appreciate the magnificence of his works. Hazy views of landscapes, still life’s, seascapes with figures these paintings move all of us.

We hope that you manage to come and enjoy a glass of champagne as you will need to see these paintings because they are so much more than our catalogue can portray. The exhibition will contain around 60 works.

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