Walton Fine Arts

Original Miro artwork from £800 up to £30,000 framed.

Joan Miró was one of the most critically acclaimed artists of the 20th century. He pioneered the transformation of the two-dimensional picture plane into a receptacle of personal dreams and imagery, characterized by the suppression of descriptive detail.

As a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, muralist, and printmaker, he created a visual vocabulary unique in the 20th century and had an enormous impact on the course of modern art. Miró was a brilliantly innovative artist who absorbed and then went beyond all the major art movements of his formative years: Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.

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Beryl Cook painted for some 40 years. Well known and much loved in her home county of Devon, she was largely snubbed by the the nation’s major art galleries.

Art critics also look down their noses at Beryl Cook’s paintings of the colourful characters she has encountered in Plymouth, where she lived.

Born in Surrey in 1926, she first started to paint after using her young son’s paint set.   When her family moved to Plymouth, Beryl and husband John (a seaman in the Merchant Navy) ran a busy theatrical boarding house.  It was here that her talents were discovered, when guests started to talk about the unique paintings on display.

A friend persuaded Beryl to try and sell some of the paintings – and, much to her surprise, they sold like hot cakes!

Her first exhibition was in 1975, since when her trademark pictures of larger than life characters have become well known the world over.  Beryl’s first pictures were created on driftwood, picked up from the beach.    Continue reading

Banksy has become Britain’s most infamous young artist. Originally from Bristol, he has taken his provocative and inspiring brand of vandalism to sites world-wide, from the Sydney Opera House to Cuba.

A media favourite for stunts like hanging his own work in the Tate gallery, but a popular star long before any of this high-profile activity – simply because the people love his stuff.

Banksy has not only brought UK graphic art to an international audience but has proven, through his emotional and provocative work, that his generation are not the apathetic and unfeeling demographic they are made out to be.
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Original Chagall artwork from £600 up to £50,000 framed.

Among the most eminent of the 20th century modern artists, Marc Chagall stands out as a romantic genius. Even Picasso, who had little regard for Chagall’s capricious nature, once commented after the death of Matisse, “There is only one great colorist left and it is Marc Chagall.”

Though Chagall is classified with the School of Paris more than any other great modernist, he never joined a movement, nor can he be ascribed to any particular “ism”. Continue reading