Lot 198 - Richard Nott - Pot Portrait from 18th C Rabbit Jar
Acrylic on paper
2023
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
This auction is raising proceeds for The Hepatitis C Trust
ARTIST INFO
About
I trained as a fashion designer at Kingston University. Following that I went to work as design assistant to sig. Valentino in Rome. After three marvellous years in Italy immersed in sunshine, couture, history and pasta I moved back to the UK and for the next ten years returned to Kingston University as Principal Lecturer in fashion design.
Eventually, wanting to re-enter the fashion industry as an independent designer, I co-founded the cult fashion company 'Workers for Freedom' which was awarded British Fashion Council Designer of the Year in 1990. In 2000 after selling 'Workers for Freedom' I was free to fulfil a lifelong ambition and become a painter.
Having worked in the fashion industry all my life I have developed a respect and love for texture, shape, colour and pattern. Wanting to incorporate this into my work led to an initial series of paintings inspired by clothing. Gaining access to the reserve collections in the Victoria and Albert museum and the Court Collection in Kensington palace in London, exhibitions in the Museé des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and the royal kaftans held in the Topkapi museum in Istanbul I was able to make large paintings of iconic historic garments from different cultures. This work was presented in a one man show at Browse and Darby in Cork Street, London,
Then, after moving to Kent and ten years of living in and looking after a 15thC National Trust house, I moved to the south coast. settling on the South Downs and looking out towards the sea, my work has taken a semi abstract path but still retains the decorative hints of a long career in fashion.
Education
Kingston Univeristy
Select Exhibitions/Awards
2019 Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
2018 Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
2014/15/16 Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
2013, 2012, 2011 Brigton Festival, Artists Open House
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