A year ago, we opened Crean & Company with a show entitled Avoiding the Hodgepodge. It therefore seems fitting as we bake the cake and light our first candle to launch Avoiding the Hodgepodge Part 2.
This show presents some 30 works, introducing new artists and old friends to our company and collectors. Across paintings, drawings and watercolours, the connection remains unchanged: these are artists constantly observing life around them, digging deep for their inspiration, working with an intellectual rigour and a creative intelligent freedom. Most are artists I have known and collected for many years balanced with others I have added to my own collection more recently.
Crean & Company is simply about passing on to you the joy and pleasure of collecting. We hope you will share in the delights of our annual virtual Wunderkammer.
- Nick Crean
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Sarah Chalmers
New to Crean & Company but not to me - a friend for some 40 years. Sarah studied at Hornsey and Chelsea art schools and her work is held in both corporate and distinguished private collections. A significant landscape painter, she is fully engaged with the reflections, sounds, breezes and colours of the natural landscapes and Levels of her West Country home.
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Will Topley
To many a gifted teacher and leading en plein air artist. A one-time student of the Slade, Will never stops painting, as restless as a wind chime without a breeze. Keenly observed, these are small treasures to be collected.
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Yuval Yosifov
Earlier this year, I had a trip planned to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Covid put paid to that. However, I am delighted to bring you the work of two wonderful women artists.
One if Yuval Yosifov. The influence of the Jerusalem Studio School under the direction of Yedidya Hershberg and his wife, the painter Deborah Sebaoun, who I collect, is seminal throughout these works. While they are stylistically unique, they are as instantly recognizable as the work of those artists who were fortunate to study in the hallowed drawing room of the Slade School.
Already exhibiting internationally, this is the first time these works have been shown in the UK.
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Yonat Cintra
Whilst born in Jerusalem, Yonat practiced and studied her art in New York City at The Art Students League.
These work burst with uplifting colour, think Matisse, Milton Avery, de Chirico, Guston or even the increasingly valuable work of Picasso’s mistress Francoise Gilot. Now based back in Tel Aviv, Yonat’s vibrant work is an autobiographical exploration of her surroundings, often spontaneous and always with a depth of what it means to be a painter.
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Alexander Nolan
Following on from our successful solo show earlier this year, The Accommodations of Desire, it was irresistible not to include a further glimpse into the whacky, surreal world of Alexander Nolan’s mind and fantastical observations.
