Fabric Still-life Paintings

The original abstract expressionist artwork by Mary Chaplin presents a gestural flora study. The artist culminates a myriad of expressive brush strokes to create the impression of blooms, painted in a kaleidoscope palette of a multitude of colours. The way the artist has imparted the paint strokes with energy and vitality creates a joyful sense of optimism, making for a striking work of art. The artist evokes the beauty and frailty of the subject matter, seeing how the delicacy of flowers is reflected in the human condition. The artist skilfully creates a balance between liberated paint application whilst also reaching a pleasingly balanced composition. This piece is painted in oils on stretched canvas, hand signed by the artist and ready to be displayed. Mary Chaplin is a professional French artist living in Wailly, near Amiens in the beautiful River Selle Valley. She was born near the Bay of the Somme and spent her younger years in the Picardie countryside, often accompanying her father who was passionate about the local wildlife and environment. Her mother had a beautiful garden where she grew flowers to sell at the weekly village markets , Mary would help her picking and creating bunches of flowers, old roses, peonies, lupines , phlox…, it was surely from these early years that her love of the country , forests and flowers came from. Her earliest works then were motivated by her environment, the sea, fields, forests, country life, not forgetting the flowers in her mother’s garden. The Bay of the River Somme is famous for its flora, fauna and above all its beautiful light which has always been an inspiration for painters, poets and writers. At first she experimented with many different techniques, water colour, pastels, pencil, acrylic and oil, capturing the scenes around her, but even at the beginning of her career she was using light as an integral theme through her works. In 2005 her work took on a great U turn when sitting quietly in a small chapel in a picturesque coastal village , Bois de Cise, she watched the light patterns through the stained glass windows moving slowly over the old flag stone...

Mary Chaplin: ‘Rainy June.’ This work of art was created using acrylic paint on canvas. An abstract way of seeing an impressionistic subject : flowers in the garden on a rainy spring...

Mary Chaplin's original abstract landscape contemporary painting featuring 'Snapsdragons and blue flowers' was created using acrylic on linen canvas; a work inspired by the flowering...