Press Image Pack for Cricket Fine Art March 2023 Exhibition

  1. A Room with a View by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    A Room with a View

    Oil on Canvas

    42 x 32 in

  2. A selection of Hugo Grenville Photographs by Hugo Grenville, Image 3.

    A selection of Hugo Grenville Photographs

  3. Ace of Hearts by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Ace of Hearts

    Oil on Canvas

    46 x 38 in

  4. An Autumn Afternoon by Hugo Grenville, Image 3.

    An Autumn Afternoon

    Oil on Canvas

    32 x 42 in

  5. Arise my darling, my perfect one. by Hugo Grenville, Image 7.

    Arise my darling, my perfect one.

    Oil On Canvas

    54 x 70 in

  6. Breezy Day on the Lizard by Hugo Grenville, Image 7.

    Breezy Day on the Lizard

    Oil on Canvas

    15 x 23 in

  7. Dawn on the Roseland by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Dawn on the Roseland

    Oil on Canvas

    30 x 50 in

  8. Dawn on the Roseland by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Dawn on the Roseland

    Oil on Canvas

    24 x 48 in

  9. Early Summer on the Lizard by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Early Summer on the Lizard

    Oil on Board

    18.5 x 25 in

  10. Gazing at the Cows by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Gazing at the Cows

    Oil on Canvas

    24 x 24 in

  11. Grenville's Garden by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Grenville's Garden

    28 x 36 in

  12. Last Light on the Midi by Hugo Grenville, Image 3.

    Last Light on the Midi

    Oil on Canvas

    24 x 24 in

  13. Late Summer: The Terrace at the Old Granary by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Late Summer: The Terrace at the Old Granary

    Oil on Canvas

    24 x 36 in

  14. Looking West from Ilias by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Looking West from Ilias

    Oil on Canvas

    18 x 36 in

  15. Low Tide on the Helford River by Hugo Grenville, Image 8.

    Low Tide on the Helford River

    Oil on Board

    15 x 23 in

  16. On the Banks of the Deben by Hugo Grenville, Image 1.

    On the Banks of the Deben

    Oil on Canvas

    38 x 46 in

  17. Path to Kynance Bay by Hugo Grenville, Image 6.

    Path to Kynance Bay

    Oil on Canvas

    20 x 26 in

  18. Peonies by the Bookcase by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Peonies by the Bookcase

    Oil on Canvas

    46 x 38 in

  19. Reading Madame Bovary by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Reading Madame Bovary

    Oil on Canvas

    34 x 36 in

  20. Sailing Home by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Sailing Home

    Oil On Canvas

    36 x 34 in

  21. Still Life in Blue by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Still Life in Blue

    Oil on Canvas

    36 x 28 in

  22. Summer Light, Morning by Hugo Grenville, Image 3.

    Summer Light, Morning

    Oil on Canvas

    28 x 36 in

  23. The Duet by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    The Duet

    Oil on Canvas

    26 x 20 in

  24. The Queens Gambit by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    The Queens Gambit

    Oil on Canvas

    30 x 30 in

  25. The Window in Winter by Hugo Grenville, Image 3.

    The Window in Winter

    Oil on Canvas

    36 x 34 in

  26. The Yellow Cup by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    The Yellow Cup

    Oil on Canvas

    36 x 28 in

  27. Winter Still Life by Hugo Grenville, Image 2.

    Winter Still Life

    Oil on Canvas

    42 x 32 in

  28. Young Woman with her Dog by Hugo Grenville, Image 1.

    Young Woman with her Dog

    Oil on Canvas

    48 x 48 in

PRESS RELEASE: Grenville London solo show. Britain’s Leading Impressionist offers his finest paintings to date We live in troubling times. Chaos abounds at home, abroad there is war and repression. Some artists choose to comment on the strife and struggle they observe around them, others choose to find meaning in intimacy. In 1943, when Nazi jackboots strutted down the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, both Bonnard and Matisse, whose studios were only a few kilometres away, elected to lift their heads beyond the daily horror of the Occupation; instead they were hard at work on a series of paintings of domestic subjects: garden scenes, still life arrangements and figure studies, explorations of glorious colour harmonies that exude a robust optimism in the face of danger and despair, paintings which express a full-blooded sense of existence through the transforming power of colour and light. Although I started out as a sort of social commentator in paint 30 years ago (David Messum once promoted me as a 'modern day Hogarth, in the style of Sickert') my painter’s journey has taken me, via the expressive language of French Post-Impressionism, into the rich pastures of English Romanticism. In a world where satire and irony tend to predominate, I intend my work to stand as a passionate defence of beauty and domestic harmony, as a symbol of hope and promise. The collection of paintings in this exhibition, all made over the last couple of years, share in a common a quest to conjure the lyrical and the dreamlike, to present an inner world at peace with itself. To achieve this, I have tended to work away from the subject, allowing memory and reflection to seep into the process, so that each picture is a distillation of experience, a reinvention of my imagination, rather than a straight record of a place or an arrangement of objects. By restricting the colours in my palettes to only one or two primaries and one or two secondaries, I have been able to better explore colour harmony, which seems to me to work in a similar way to the keys in music, where the greatest expressiveness is achieved within a restricted hierarchy of notes. The pictures in this catalogue are largely inspired by my home and garden, and by two much loved areas of countryside: the wild, romantic shoreline of the Cornish coast, and the deep sultriness of the Midi. But all the paintings here, the figure subjects, the interiors and the landscapes, have at their heart the principal intention to deploy the abstract elements of picture making – the arrangements of shape, colour, line, pattern, and the sense of light achieved through variation in tonal values – in the pursuit of exploring timelessness, of connecting us to time past, present and future, to both the visible world and the invisible. Preview of Grenville’s London Exhibition is on Tuesday 14 March at Cricket Fine Art 6-8pm. For more information visit Hugo’s website www.hugogrenville.com Press Contact Angie Porter Assistant to Hugo Grenville EMAIL [email protected] ADDRESS Studio Hugo Grenville The Chapel in the Garden 49 East Street Bridport Dorset DT6 3JX England MOBILE +44 (0) 7796 415 395 VIDEO Click below to view 'Romantic Vision', a short film about Hugo Grenville http://bit.ly/hugogrenvillefilm SOCIAL MEDIA https://www.facebook.com/StudioHugoGrenville https://www.instagram.com/hugogrenville/   IMAGES Hugo Painting his garden in West Dorset View from the terrace in the artist’s garden Like Monet Hugo’s work is inspired by his garden. Hugo’s subject is often ‘views through a window’. Hugo is inspired by the Dorset landscape.