Portrait, Tickle my Fancy (2020) Painting by L'Orientaliste
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Acrylic
on Linen Canvas
- Dimensions Height 16in, Width 12in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $500 Figurative
Description:
The composition of Tickle my fancy is delightfully simple.
16 x 12 inches by 38mm deep – Acrylic on canvas featuring wrapped edges which can be hung without a frame.
The subject here is only a simple head and shoulder portrait of a woman smiling at the viewer. Set against a rich peach background, the elegant woman in this portrait half turns to the viewer with a radiant smile and bloom on her cheeks.
The woman is nude, decorated with just a sumptuous rich purple feather boa draped across bare shoulders. She is the embodiment of luxury and style and extravagant display of her colourful opulence. Below the base of her neck she is wearing a beautiful diamante amethyst necklace with drop dioxazine earings.
The intention of the Painter:
This portrait of a friend, Sue, was created as a fun quirky gift to celebrate her birthday during lockdown. The reference for the portrait was taken from a past social snap with tiny pixels, in which the sitter was wearing a white lace top. After painting the face and shoulder, I decided to give the portrait a completely different fun and glamorous feel, with a beautiful fantasy purple boa in her favourite colour, as I know Sue is partial to occasionally dress-up in a boa. I took the portrait a step further by giving her purple tinted hair, rather than her normal fair hair keeping her usual hairstyle. As I say, it’s a fun fantasy portrait, the painting was not intended to replicate the original photograph.
Reflection:
Portrait painting is not my subject area in which I’ve practised, but begun to dabble in over the past year. I have to say it’s quite tricky to achieve a person’s likeness, which is self-challenging enough whilst focusing the acrylic medium. However, I’ve enjoyed the challenge and the only way to improve and evolve is moving outside one’s comfort zone.
R Lawrence
Related themes
Artist: Rozlynn M Lawrence-Manasfi
Genre: MENA Orientalist
Middle East and North African "MENA" artist, whose works predominantly represent orientalist era in the arts of ancient Middle East, North Africa, Egypt and Turkey, depicting scenes of Arabian pictorial history in landscape and figurative style.
Fantasy of the Orient
Her paintings are a romantic fantasy of the Orient, populated with exotic rich sensual and colourful scenes of worlds beyond Europe, illustrating rug sellers, dancers, harems, turbaned men in luscious velvet cloaks, the alluring odalisques, women in luxurious clothing, jewelled slippers, silks and velvet gowns with beautiful beaded embellishment, dusty bazaars, souks, snake charmers, with traders in the bustling Arabic markets, selling their wares of beautiful orient trinkets, hookah, lush decorative fabrics, beautiful textiles in vibrant glowing shimmering colours of red, green, gold, blue, yellow and pink, lavish tapestry, beautiful Arabesque tiles, mosques and architecture to the golden sands of the hot desert and palm trees, an oasis set in a mysterious far away land.
About the Artist
English autodidactic painter, born in London, grew up in the 1960's Shoreditch, London.
Her artistic influence expanded and blossomed with the introduction of Orientalism in art in the early 1980's. Beautifully vibrant and lush, she populated a series of Middle East, Orientalist scenes in Watercolour by famous artists Giulio Rosati and Antonio Gargiullo.
By the late 1980's she developed her own style, painting more in oils extending her skills to commissioned work for friends, painting their favourite subjects. In the 1990's a window opened to assist at a local community Sunday art club at Napier Grove N1, run by artists for the local community, thus proving opportunity to interact with other artists an opportunity to network, show and exhibit her works at the club, with encouragement to show and sell her paintings to a wider audience.
Exhibitions and Selling
In the past a handful of paintings were shown in the gallery space at the Lion and Lamb, Hoxton, she exhibited a painting in the London Mall Gallery in the 1980's, but rarely participate in exhibitions, painting being secondary to her main professional career, nevertheless the Artist has successfully sold most of her works, as demonstrated by the steady sales of her paintings in the UK and Europe to private clients and galleries.
A collection of her paintings can be viewed at her portfolio on the Artmajeur Gallery website. Details about the Artist are documented on Wikipedia.
Some much earlier paintings bear the FAR branding with FAR tags. These were documented on the Fine Art Registry (FAR) until FAR abandoned hundreds of artists without warning, the site went down in 2012 with no recovery of digital images. Fortunately, most digital images were curated on the Artmajeur platform.
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Nationality:
UNITED KINGDOM
- Date of birth : 1958
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary British Artists
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