Christmas Opening Times

AP Fitzpatrick shop will be closed for Christmas from the 24th December and re-open on the 2nd January 2014. 

Our web shop will be open to place orders throughout Christmas, which will be dispatched when we re-open.

We wish all our customers a Happy Christmas!

www.apfitzpatrick.co.uk

NEW AP Fitzpatrick Canvases

Workshop Canvases

Canvases from 20cm x 20cm upwards, in a variety of fabrics and surface preparations. 

Our Handmade Canvases are made in our workshop using a selection of the fabrics we stock, stretched onto a quality 2.2cm deep tulip wood stretcher. Each canvas is prepared with Lascaux acrylic size and either Lascaux Primer or Lascaux Gesso, giving you an excellent support which is ready to work on in any media. Canvas sizes 30cm x 30cm or bigger also come with keyways to help adjust tension in future.

We also offer a full bespoke canvas service.

 Please call for more information and quotes. 

Tel: 020 7790 0884

Or visit the canvas section of our website here

NEW Lascaux Studio Colours

Lascaux have added 4 new colours to the original Studio range of Acrylic paints, as well as modifying  3 of the existing colours in the range.

The four new colours are:
949 Prussian Blue - By popular demand, Lascaux have added this traditional deep blue. Adding Tint White to lighten this colour really makes it glow.
975 Transparent Black -  Mixing with other Studio colours creates nuanced darker shades. This versatile black is also great for shading and shadows.
987 Shell White - An opaque, "warmer" white, created as an homage to the classic Lead White.
988 Crystal White - A brilliant white with high opacity, stronger than even Titanium White.

Modified colours are:
912 Lemon Yellow - This vibrant yellow now has a higher level of opacity and optimised lightfastness, producing a purer and more luminous colour.
923 Bright Red - Now made with a new high-quality pigment that gives optimised lightfastness and a unique brilliance.
925 Carmine Red - Now has optimised lightfastness.

The Hope of Wrecks - Group Show - St. Albans

The Hope of Wrecks
13 September – 27 October 2013

The Hope of Wrecks is a forthcoming multi-media exhibition at the Museum of St Albans & The Art and Design Gallery, The University of Hertfordshire. Curated by Andrew Marsh and Simon Hollington.

Featured artists

Jo Addison

Chris Dobrowolski
David Ersser

Daniel Goodwin
Friedrich Kunath
Martin Kippenberger
Kypros Kyprianou
Adam Norton

Selina O

David Shrigley

Ali Tareen

Paul Thek

Opening Reception (Art and Design Gallery) Thursday 12 September
5.00pm – 8.00pm

Closing Reception (Museum of St Albans) Saturday 26 October
6.00pm – 8.00pm

Venues

University of Hertfordshire Galleries
Art and Design Gallery, College Lane, Hatfield AL10 9AB

University of Hertfordshire Galleries at
Museum of St Albans, Hatfield Road, St Albans AL1 3RR

The Hope of Wrecks is a play on the title of the seminal Germanic romantic painting, The Wreck of Hope by Casper David Friedrich.
As the world is struggling to recover from a continuing global financial and ethical crisis it seems a fitting moment to explore how contemporary artists address the term ‘Hope’ both personally and politically.
The Hope of Wrecks explores how certain artists produce works which have an inherent optimism when seemingly either they, or the world that surrounds them, is at ‘rock bottom’. This optimism, whether it be overt or underlying, is expressed using strategies like humour, satire, honesty, naivety or faith.
The majority of our life experience may be futile, a tiny percentile of this experience, however, transcends inerta and despondency allowing us to feel optimistic and enthusiastic in spite of ourselves.
The show will exhibit a range of multi-media works by established, mid-career and young artists contextualising a modus operandi that has been at the core of artististic enquiry throughout history. In many of the selected artists’ work there is a ‘gallows humour’ that both mocks and confronts either themselves, their environment, or the viewer.
Taking place across both the Museum of St Albans and the Art and Design Gallery at the University of Hertfordshire.

Click here for more info.

Tom Hackney at BREESE LITTLE 10th September

 The Chess Game, 2013

Tom Hackney

BREESE LITTLE
30d Great Sutton Street
London, EC1V 0DU

PRIVATE VIEW: Tuesday 10th September, 6 - 9 pm
Show Runs: 11th September - 5th October
Open: Tues - Sat, 12 - 6 pm

For more information, click here

www.tomhackney.com

Phoebe Unwin: The Presence of People And Shapes - Wilkinson Gallery - 5th Sept. - 13th Oct. 2013

Image: Phoebe Unwin, "Photograph", 2013 - courtesy the artist/Wilkinson Gallery

For more information, visit the Wilkinson gallery website.

Hannah Maybank - Gimpel Fils - 11th sept. - 11th oct. 2013

Image: Hannah Maybank, "Bridled Briar", 2012 - Courtesy the artist/Gimpel Fils

Image: Hannah Maybank, "Mine Own", 2010 - Courtesy the artist/Gimpel Fils

Image: Hannah Maybank, "I Begin a Ghost", 2011 - Courtesy the artist/Gimpel Fils

Hannah Maybank has shown regularly at Gimpel Fils since 2002 and this exhibition is the recapitulation of a decade's work. She uses the flora that surrounds us to portray an expression of time and mortality through a painted process. Her manner of depicting this shows much variety.

From her earliest days, Maybank has used acrylic paint with latex in carefully layered single colours, to build up a relief on the canvas surface. The result, like a carved frieze, is a surface, which allows for delicate shadows to enhance the image. The relief areas are either left intact or peeled away to reveal an underlying colour which otherwise remains hidden. The contrast between the relatively tough nature of latex and an implied fragility, unmasked in a tear, sums up the captivating manner in which the artist uses this most unusual of paint surfaces.

When Hannah Maybank turned to paper and ink, she recreated her carefully detailed studies of trees as jet-black silhouettes. Maybank used a slightly unorthodox shellac ink, to obtain the deepest black image, set against a pure white background. More recently she has begun to tackle watercolour and graphite to paint delicate flower images, leaving some areas densely painted and others finely outlined. In these, as in all her earlier work, Maybank sets up a contrast between full and empty spaces, balancing quiet with noise, solidity with confusion. There is beauty in fragility, in impermanence.

Hannah Maybank has been commissioned to produce new work for this year's Wirksworth Festival: 6- 22 September, along with Rachael Champion, Emily Speed and Johannes Vogl. She will also be exhibiting in the group show 'Under The Greenwood-Picturing The British Tree' at The St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington: 12th October-23rd November.

For more information visit Gimpel Fils website.