Oils, Drawings & Watercolors

- Dimensions: 18.5” x 14.25”

- Gouache on paper, framed in natural wood with UV-resistant plexiglass. 

- Sarah Desmarais trained as a fine art painter at Central School of Art in London, before moving in the 1990s to rural Provence, where she focused on landscape painting, working en plein air and in a variety of media including oil paint, watercolor, collage and etching. Over the next ten years, her work— initially a figurative response to particular places, became progressively more abstract, and derived from an internal world of dreamlike landscape imagery.

After a decade in France, Sarah returned to the UK, and has continued to show her work in London and Paris. In parallel with her fine art practice, she has pursued an interest in the community arts. In 2016, she gained a PhD from University of the Arts London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for research into the therapeutic uses of creative groups. She was recently a recipient of funding from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fund. Other recent projects include diverse community-based arts-for-health initiatives, a post-doctoral research post with the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing at University College London, and funded residencies with Bow Arts, the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University, and Climate Art UK. She currently supervises post-graduate research as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

Landscape continues to be central to Sarah’s practice as a painter. She makes frequent trips to remote coastal locations in the UK and the Mediterranean to walk and draw, working regularly as artist in residence at Ventnor Botanic Garden on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight. She currently lives between London and Rye, a medieval citadel on the south coast of England, where the tides, fishing boats and weathered coastal environment continue to inspire her.

- Dimensions: 18.5” x 14.25”

- Gouache on paper, framed in natural wood with UV-resistant plexiglass. 

- Sarah Desmarais trained as a fine art painter at Central School of Art in London, before moving in the 1990s to rural Provence, where she focused on landscape painting, working en plein air and in a variety of media including oil paint, watercolor, collage and etching. Over the next ten years, her work— initially a figurative response to particular places, became progressively more abstract, and derived from an internal world of dreamlike landscape imagery.

After a decade in France, Sarah returned to the UK, and has continued to show her work in London and Paris. In parallel with her fine art practice, she has pursued an interest in the community arts. In 2016, she gained a PhD from University of the Arts London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for research into the therapeutic uses of creative groups. She was recently a recipient of funding from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fund. Other recent projects include diverse community-based arts-for-health initiatives, a post-doctoral research post with the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing at University College London, and funded residencies with Bow Arts, the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University, and Climate Art UK. She currently supervises post-graduate research as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

Landscape continues to be central to Sarah’s practice as a painter. She makes frequent trips to remote coastal locations in the UK and the Mediterranean to walk and draw, working regularly as artist in residence at Ventnor Botanic Garden on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight. She currently lives between London and Rye, a medieval citadel on the south coast of England, where the tides, fishing boats and weathered coastal environment continue to inspire her.

- Dimensions: 18.5” x 14.25”

- Gouache on paper, framed in natural wood with UV-resistant plexiglass. 

- Sarah Desmarais trained as a fine art painter at Central School of Art in London, before moving in the 1990s to rural Provence, where she focused on landscape painting, working en plein air and in a variety of media including oil paint, watercolor, collage and etching. Over the next ten years, her work— initially a figurative response to particular places, became progressively more abstract, and derived from an internal world of dreamlike landscape imagery.

After a decade in France, Sarah returned to the UK, and has continued to show her work in London and Paris. In parallel with her fine art practice, she has pursued an interest in the community arts. In 2016, she gained a PhD from University of the Arts London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for research into the therapeutic uses of creative groups. She was recently a recipient of funding from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fund. Other recent projects include diverse community-based arts-for-health initiatives, a post-doctoral research post with the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing at University College London, and funded residencies with Bow Arts, the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University, and Climate Art UK. She currently supervises post-graduate research as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

Landscape continues to be central to Sarah’s practice as a painter. She makes frequent trips to remote coastal locations in the UK and the Mediterranean to walk and draw, working regularly as artist in residence at Ventnor Botanic Garden on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight. She currently lives between London and Rye, a medieval citadel on the south coast of England, where the tides, fishing boats and weathered coastal environment continue to inspire her.

- Dimensions: 18.5” x 14.25”

- Gouache on paper, framed in natural wood with UV-resistant plexiglass.

- Sarah Desmarais trained as a fine art painter at Central School of Art in London, before moving in the 1990s to rural Provence, where she focused on landscape painting, working en plein air and in a variety of media including oil paint, watercolor, collage and etching. Over the next ten years, her work— initially a figurative response to particular places, became progressively more abstract, and derived from an internal world of dreamlike landscape imagery.

After a decade in France, Sarah returned to the UK, and has continued to show her work in London and Paris. In parallel with her fine art practice, she has pursued an interest in the community arts. In 2016, she gained a PhD from University of the Arts London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for research into the therapeutic uses of creative groups. She was recently a recipient of funding from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fund. Other recent projects include diverse community-based arts-for-health initiatives, a post-doctoral research post with the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing at University College London, and funded residencies with Bow Arts, the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University, and Climate Art UK. She currently supervises post-graduate research as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

Landscape continues to be central to Sarah’s practice as a painter. She makes frequent trips to remote coastal locations in the UK and the Mediterranean to walk and draw, working regularly as artist in residence at Ventnor Botanic Garden on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight. She currently lives between London and Rye, a medieval citadel on the south coast of England, where the tides, fishing boats and weathered coastal environment continue to inspire her.

- Dimensions: 12" x 15"

- Oil on linen

- Mary Breneman debuts a small series of expressionistic landscapes and still lifes. Her intimate paintings are inspired by both plein air and photographs taken on meditation walks through nature. They are at once representational, abstract, and emotionally expressive. Her gestural brush strokes reveal not only the artist’s hand on the canvas but her witnessing of the scene. Until 2014, Breneman exclusively painted in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she lived and owned a gallery for 15 years. Her paintings were widely collected and celebrated for their vibrance and representation of Mexican culture and landscape. When family called her back to the East Coast, she settled in Hudson, New York, where her work has taken on a new palette and vision.

- “My work is going through a change that I don’t see until it’s on the canvas. I find I’m more interested in form and color than rendering. In pairing subjects down to their essential details, I am less intentional and more open to intuition. My paintings are pure expressions of where and who I am!”

- Dimensions: 12" x 16" x 1"

- Oil on cradled panel.

- A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, Sarah Raphael-Balme's paintings explore rich pattern and jewel-like color. Working mainly in oil or gouache, her pieces range from whimsical still life compositions to atmospheric interiors, imaginary landscapes and dreamlike gardens, as well as enchanting portraits of fictional characters and animals.

- Her work has been published by BBC, IPC, Condé Nast and Heineman. Exhibitions include Elizabeth Street Gallery, AG Gallery NYC, AK Bellinger Gallery, Partisan, Josie Eastwood, Zillah Bell, Fieldwork London, Lotte Inch, Northern Eye, Churchgate Gallery, The Edition Shop, Marlow Gallery, Lingwood Samuel, House of Hackney and The Shop Floor Project.

- She lives in York, England.

- Dimensions: 12" x 16" x 1"

- Oil on cradled panel.

- A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, Sarah Raphael-Balme's paintings explore rich pattern and jewel-like color. Working mainly in oil or gouache, her pieces range from whimsical still life compositions to atmospheric interiors, imaginary landscapes and dreamlike gardens, as well as enchanting portraits of fictional characters and animals.

- Her work has been published by BBC, IPC, Condé Nast and Heineman. Exhibitions include Elizabeth Street Gallery, AG Gallery NYC, AK Bellinger Gallery, Partisan, Josie Eastwood, Zillah Bell, Fieldwork London, Lotte Inch, Northern Eye, Churchgate Gallery, The Edition Shop, Marlow Gallery, Lingwood Samuel, House of Hackney and The Shop Floor Project. She lives in York, England.

- Dimensions: 7.5” x 9.5”

- A ‘jewel box painting’ might be our favorite category of home art: rich little canvases that contain a tiny world within themselves. We recently uncovered this French still life and it’s exactly that.

- This signed vintage piece would be a beautiful addition to a grouping: set it on an easel to complete a tabletop tableau or add it into a larger mix on a gallery wall. It would also make a special gift, as it works with virtually any style.

- This piece is in good vintage condition, with signs of wear consistent with age and use, notably a very small tear in the canvas. We believe these imperfections only add to its charm. Please see our detailed photos.

- Dimensions: 16.5" x 20" x 1.5"

- A vibrant nautical scene rendered in impasto.

- Housed in a simple wood frame, artist unknown.

- Delightful and exuberant, a real eye-catching piece.

- This painting is in very good vintage condition with some wear to its wood frame. Please see our detailed photos.

- Dimensions: 12.25" x 15.75"

- Ink and watercolor on handmade, all cotton Indian paper. 

- Floated and framed in natural maple with UV-protectant plexiglass.

- David Coggins is an award-winning writer, artist and set designer. His paintings, drawings and collages have been exhibited in Paris, London and Santiago, Chile as well as in U.S. galleries. Most recently, he is the author of two illustrated memoirs: Paris in Winter and Blue. Other books include The Nostalgic Heart, a travel memoir that received an Independent Publisher Book Award, and Eden Summer Collages, an illustrated nature diary. His eight-volume set The Daybooks, published under the pseudonym Robert Carolina, is in the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Coggins has designed for a number of U.S. theaters, including Théâtre de la Jeune Lune, Guthrie Theater and La Jolla Theater. His set for “The Deception" was chosen for “From the Edge," a U.S. exhibition on performance design that toured New York, Prague, and Moscow. He lives in Minneapolis.

- Dimensions: 13.25" x 11.25" x 1"

- Gouache on paper. Floated and housed in an antique 19th-century gilt frame with UV-protectant plexiglass.

- A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, Sarah Raphael-Balme's paintings explore rich pattern and jewel-like color. Working mainly in oil or gouache, her pieces range from whimsical still life compositions to atmospheric interiors, imaginary landscapes and dreamlike gardens, to enchanting portraits of fictional characters and animals.

- Her work has been published by BBC, IPC, Condé Nast and Heineman. Exhibitions include Elizabeth Street Gallery, AG Gallery NYC, AK Bellinger Gallery, Partisan, Josie Eastwood, Zillah Bell, Fieldwork London, Lotte Inch, Northern Eye, Churchgate Gallery, The Edition Shop, Marlow Gallery, Lingwood Samuel, House of Hackney and The Shop Floor Project.

- She lives in York, England.