€320
Star Lot: Louise Mansfield (b.1950 - d.2018) A fabulous original Louise Mansfield oil on board painting titled 'Heading for the Waves'. Features her beloved subject matter of figures in a coastal landscape. Rendered in impasto fluid brushstrokes. Signed lower right and the verso with title. Blackrock Gallery Sticker also to verso. Housed in a wooden frame behind glass. Mansfield sells very well at auction with similar works fetching into the hundreds.
MM: 43cm x 44cm including frame.
Louise Mansfield was born in Dublin in 1950 and began painting from a young age. The Mansfield household was, and still is, a creative one. Her mother and father both had creative pastimes in embroidery and painting, and today her brother, Keith, works as a landscape artist while her sister, Thelma, is also a painter. While always a creative spirit, Mansfield was not always an artist in the traditional sense - she also had a short lived career in her early years as an artist of the stage, touring the North of Ireland with the Shakespearean Company. After her stint in both modelling and acting she eventually turned her hand to painting.
Mansfield never had formal art training, and so, this allowed her to develop her own unique and distinctive style. Her artwork is easily identifiable through her fluid brushstrokes that evoke movement on the canvas. She worked in a conservatory she had built onto her South Dublin home, and the bright and airy atmosphere that she worked in is very clearly reflected onto each and every one of her canvases.
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