FS Colour Series: Renaissance Rose Inspired by Artemisia Gentileschi’s Berry Tones

Artemisia Gentileschi was the foremost female painter of the 17th century, working for prestigious clients across Rome, Florence, Venice and Naples. Like many painters of the Baroque era, her art was dark, brooding, and mysterious, telling tales of martyred women from throughout history with theatrical, directional lighting and indulgently painted fabrics. She often coupled earthy…

Glowing shades of pale yellow like GOLDEN GRAIN were a recurring feature in much of the Dutch-French Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh’s art. But nowhere more so than in his late series of wheat fields, which convey the low-lying autumn sunlight casting its warm radiance across the vast wheat fields that once dominated the south…

British painter Patrick Heron might just be one of the finest colourists of the entire 20th century. From his early days as a semi-figurative painter to his mature, pure abstraction, colour was always the defining principle that shaped the very nature of his art. He dived headfirst into the intensity of colour, working with the…

World-renowned Scottish artist and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a pioneer of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco style, mastering a language of simple, restrained elegance inspired by the curvilinear forms of nature. Blooming flowers of all kinds became his most enduring motifs, appearing in countless drawings and paintings, as well as his prolific design…