MALLINSON ADRIAN - Rêve à Venise

Of English origin, Adrian Mallinson has successfully exhibited in London still lifes in gouache and pencil, before settling in Paris where he lives and works. He has been regularly exhibiting in Paris for 25 years, but his style and themes have evolved. One senses, in any case, solid foundations. Perhaps he is influenced by a father who taught at the Beaux-Arts in London? His body of work reveals, in any case, his taste for modern art with a predilection for Matisse and Cubism, directions that are reflected in his painting even though his personal style, oscillating between figuration and abstraction, is already established. He has developed larger acrylic paintings, of Parisian monuments, of streets and canals of Venice, of Greek landscapes, as well as purely abstract compositions. Color and light are at the heart of his paintings, often executed by hand and with a brush to obtain very blended and subtle effects. His original canvases with a beautiful fluidity seem to float nicely in the air!