Thursday, February 4th, 2021
Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists
Summer Fields 1
Shades of Summer: The delightful Oxfordshire poppy fields that burst into flower during the summer.
Image Size: 35cm x 35cm
Art Medium: Oil on Cradled Board
Painting Price: £80
Commissions Invited
Clare Buchta
Landscape and Seascape Artist working in Print,
Oil, Gouache and Mixed Media
Clare is an award-winning artist who has recently been featured in
Artists and Illlustrators magazine as one to watch.
Clare is a Landscape and Seascape artist who uses innovative methods and media to produce unique landscapes and seascapes. She enjoys painting in a semi-abstract style, including monotypes using oils, mixed media and print methods. The British coast and countryside are the inspiration for these original works of art which although semi-abstract, retain a recognisable sense of place.
Clare has developed a unique style of painting in oils, which uses thin layers to allow light to move through the painting. These works are framed behind glass. Clare also paints on an aluminium-based surface which allows the painting to be hung flat to the wall with no frame necessary. There are also paintings on cradled board which can be left unframed, or presented using a floating frame. She also specialises and tutors in Monotypes, a printing technique, to produce beautiful landscapes.
Art Group / Exhibitions
Clare is a member of the Reading Guild of Artists and regularly exhibits with them and at other venues in the south of England. Her work is in collections in the UK and abroad. For example, in the Obsidian Art Gallery and in the Bygillian Gallery
Clare's art has been selected for many awards, including the SAA National Award for Abstract Painting.
Ken Bromley Cover Competition finalist 2019
Wraptious finalist 2019
Marie Dyson Award 2017
Best in Show RGA Summer Exhibition 2018
Best in Show RGA Summer Exhibition 2017
Best in Show Wokingham Art Society
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists
Winter Stream
The water is high after all this rain, but what beauty is given by the reflections of the light in the river and on the trees.
Image Size: 50cm x 70cm
Art Medium: Oil on Card
Painting Price: £350
Commissions Invited
Clare Buchta
Landscape and Seascape Artist working in Print,
Oil, Gouache and Mixed Media
Clare is an award-winning artist who has recently been featured in
Artists and Illlustrators magazine as one to watch.
Clare is a Landscape and Seascape artist who uses innovative methods and media to produce unique landscapes and seascapes. She enjoys painting in a semi-abstract style, including monotypes using oils, mixed media and print methods. The British coast and countryside are the inspiration for these original works of art which although semi-abstract, retain a recognisable sense of place.
Clare has developed a unique style of painting in oils, which uses thin layers to allow light to move through the painting. These works are framed behind glass. Clare also paints on an aluminium-based surface which allows the painting to be hung flat to the wall with no frame necessary. There are also paintings on cradled board which can be left unframed, or presented using a floating frame. She also specialises and tutors in Monotypes, a printing technique, to produce beautiful landscapes.
Art Group / Exhibitions
Clare is a member of the Reading Guild of Artists and regularly exhibits with them and at other venues in the south of England. Her work is in collections in the UK and abroad. For example, in the Obsidian Art Gallery and in the Bygillian Gallery
Clare's art has been selected for many awards, including the SAA National Award for Abstract Painting.
Ken Bromley Cover Competition finalist 2019
Wraptious finalist 2019
Marie Dyson Award 2017
Best in Show RGA Summer Exhibition 2018
Best in Show RGA Summer Exhibition 2017
Best in Show Wokingham Art Society
Tuesday, January 5th, 2021
Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists
Image Size: Approx 6”x 6”
Art Medium: Acrylic Inks
Original Painting: Please contact the Artist
Pen & Wash Sketches from £50
Commissions Invited
Mohan Banerji
Pen and Wash, Mixed Media, Acrylics
I first picked up a sketch pen or a brush in 2016! I have no formal art education, which perhaps explains the lack of a ‘style’. I love to record what I see, trying to capture a sense of place and time, drawing and painting where I live and where I travel to.
Pen and ink, watercolours, acrylics, pastels and mixed media are my go-to mediums. I love to explore and experiment: mediums and subject matter vary, but the thread that weaves through it all is my love of lines, textures and colours. I can relate to Walt Disney’s quote : “I can never stand still … I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”
Art Groups / Exhibitions
I am a Full Exhibiting Member of both the Reading Guild of Artists and the Wokingham Art Society. In addition to having my work published, it can also be found in homes around the UK, Australia, Singapore, India and the USA.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists
Cotswold Cottage
This work was inspired by the beautiful ochre and honey-coloured stone cottages of the English countryside, in the Cotswold region. It immediately evoked a sense of rustic charm of the simple village life.
Image Size: 9.8” x 11.8” unframed
Art Medium: Watercolour on 100% cotton paper with transparent washes
Painting Availability: SOLD
Commissions Invited
Kusum Shabong
Watercolour Artist
Kusum Shabong is a self-taught Watercolour artist living in Reading, Berkshire. Although she has enjoyed painting from a young age, she has only seriously started pursuing it for the past six years. She enjoys the medium because of its immediacy and wonderful luminosity. She likes to try different styles and techniques and enjoys painting different subjects, primarily relating to nature, flora and fauna and architecture. A subject of deep contrast attracts and inspires her to paint. Currently she finds herself drawn to the human form and its various emotions and is experimenting with it. She is constantly learning and enjoying her art journey tremendously.
She likes to work from photo references, although she enjoys 'plein air' painting too. She takes some time to study the subject and break it down to its different stages and finds herself painting mostly in a loose, impressionistic style using the medium in transparent washes. Watercolour painting has given her immense pleasure and satisfaction and she feel inspired by watercolour painters of today- like Chien Chung Wei and Thomas Schaller.
Art Group / Exhibitions
Kusum is a member of Art Societies in her area (Reading Guild of Artists and Wokingham Art Society) and these are thriving and active societies and have frequent exhibitions and demos and workshops. She has exhibited with them and is also represented by some online galleries. Her recent achievement has been being one of the winners in the Diversity Exhibition hosted by Doncaster Art Fair.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists
King of the Skies
Painted in an impressionistic style with vibrant colours, this is a watercolour painting of an eagle in flight with its prey.
Image Size: 14.9” x 11” unframed
Art Medium: Watercolour
Painting Price: £185
Commissions Invited
Kusum Shabong
Watercolour Artist
Kusum Shabong is a self-taught Watercolour artist living in Reading, Berkshire. Although she has enjoyed painting from a young age, she has only seriously started pursuing it for the past six years. She enjoys the medium because of its immediacy and wonderful luminosity. She likes to try different styles and techniques and enjoys painting different subjects, primarily relating to nature, flora and fauna and architecture. A subject of deep contrast attracts and inspires her to paint. Currently she finds herself drawn to the human form and its various emotions and is experimenting with it. She is constantly learning and enjoying her art journey tremendously.
She likes to work from photo references, although she enjoys 'plein air' painting too. She takes some time to study the subject and break it down to its different stages and finds herself painting mostly in a loose, impressionistic style using the medium in transparent washes. Watercolour painting has given her immense pleasure and satisfaction and she feel inspired by watercolour painters of today- like Chien Chung Wei and Thomas Schaller.
Art Group / Exhibitions
Kusum is a member of Art Societies in her area (Reading Guild of Artists and Wokingham Art Society) and these are thriving and active societies and have frequent exhibitions and demos and workshops. She has exhibited with them and is also represented by some online galleries. Her recent achievement has been being one of the winners in the Diversity Exhibition hosted by Doncaster Art Fair.
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