Commissioning an Italian landscape Painting
Have you ever thought about commissioning a painting from an artist and what that might entail?
In August’s issue of Italy Magazine writer Myra Robinson describes how she commissioned me to make a painting of her favourite place in Italy.
Read about it in my blog post here…
Sussex county Arts Club at Oxmarket contemporary
23 July - 04 August 2024
I have three drawings of the figure at the Sussex County Arts Club exhibition currently on in Chichester, West Sussex at Oxmarket Contemporary @oxmarketcontemporary until Sunday, 04 August.
It’s a show of paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints inspired by the figure by 16 artists who volunteer to run the sessions at SCAC (@sussexcountyartsclub) or were prizewinners at the Open House exhibition there this year. All work is for sale.
Oxmarket Contemporary offers modern exhibition space in an atmospheric historical building right in the heart of Chichester. If you’re in the area pop by. It’s free entry.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4.30pm. Sundays noon to 4pm.
Christmas Mix
03 -23rd December 2023
Catto Gallery Hampstead London NW3
A Christmas exhibition offering a range of paintings and sculptures guaranteed to create instant joy.
I have a selection of small paintings from this year in this exhibition.
Gallery Opening Times
Monday - Saturday 10 - 5.30pm
Sunday 12.00 - 5pm
CATTO GALLERY
100 Heath Street
London
NW3 1DP
Nearest Underground station: Hampstead (Northern Line)
Field and Coast Paintings
29 June - 23 July 2023
Catto Gallery Hampstead London NW3
A collection of new oil paintings made late 2022 and 2023 of Italian fields and the Costa Brava on the Catalan coast.
"The mysteries and beauties of oil paint take quite a bit of coaxing to reveal themselves. Luckily for me, I know they exist." So says Julian Vilarrubi – whose latest bout of painterly 'foraging' is revealed in a superb collection of new works for Catto Gallery.”
“These landscape paintings are a delight. They are wonderfully ambiguous – somewhere between representative and abstract, flat and multi-dimensional. And the same goes for the colours – which are occasionally realistic, but can also be exaggerated as if from some 1950s technicolour movie.”
“This 'in between' effect is fine by Julian, who adds that the way he paints contributes to the ambiguity. He says: "I make drawings and colour studies on-site and create the work back in the studio. This means memory becomes a more significant aspect than the strictly observational...somewhere in between the drawings, the studies and the memories lies the point of it all. To get to that and express it is the challenge."
Catto Gallery
Shifting Moments
02-25 April 2021
Phoenix Art Space Brighton
SHIFTING MOMENTS was an exhibition of recent paintings and iPad drawings by Julian Vilarrubi responding to the view from Studio 4S0 at Phoenix Art Space.
The paintings focus the eye on St. Peter’s, a Grade II pre-Victorian Gothic Revival church that sits majestically across the road from studio 4S0.
Small is Beautiful
27 November - 19December 2021
Catto Gallery Hampstead London NW3
A small works exhibition by gallery artists and sculptors.
CHANGING SEASONS
07th – 30th October 2021
Catto Gallery Hampstead London NW3
CHANGING SEASONS is a group exhibition that celebrates the diverse qualities of Britain’s changing seasons.