The Female Form Artist Collection

The oldest art depicting the female form can be dated back to prehistory. The ‘Venus of Willendorf’ (A small 11 cm high naked female figurine made out of limestone) was discovered in Austria in 1907 and is believed to have been made some 25,000 years ago, some 20,000 years older than the oldest pyramid.

Many similar female figurines have been found and are traditionally referred to by archaeologists as “Venus figurines”, this is due to the widely-held belief that depictions of female form women with exaggerated features represented a Mother goddess or a representation of fertility. However, the reference to Venus is metaphorical since the figurines predate the Roman mythological figure of Venus by many thousands of years.

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The female form in art has always been around, right from classical times with classical Gods and Goddesses wandering through landscapes as they drank and danced with nothing much on….Lovely!

Then came the Nordic Gods. By the fourteenth century, two separate traditions had developed, the Renaissance and the Gothic. I am definitely of the Gothic tradition.

My female forms fall into three group headings, all made for different reasons.

1. Arcadian female forms, almost classical but the most surreal because I was married at the time.
2. Girly magazine female forms. I became saddened because the lovely smiling Betty Page type female forms turned into pornographic sad exploited young girls and I wanted to give them some dignity back.
3. Structured female forms. The square format is supposed to be the hardest shape to work a figure into, hence the figures became more and more structured and abstracted. Doug Kemp.

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Arcadia, although also being the name of a region in Greece, as in this series of canvas paintings it also refers to ancient Greek mythology.

Located in the Peloponnese (A geographic region in southern Greece), Arcadia was considered to be a wilderness in which the God Pan resided, along with his dryads, nymphs and other spirits (but not Ouzo at the time).

Nymphs. These are Mythological spirits of nature depicted as a beautiful female form women who inhabit rivers and forests.

Dryads. These are nymphs who inhabit trees.

The God Pan, in Greek mythology, was a deity of the wild, fertility and rustic music and taught the shepherd Daphnis to play the Pan flute. In the Arcadia series of paintings, the point of view is that of Pan (so he is not seen). Pan’s traditional appearance in art is that of a Satyr, a more or less bestial in form, and is generally represented as a vigorous and lustful figure having horns, legs, and the ears of a goat. However, his mother still loved him.

Arcadia V1, The viewing of Arcadia.

Arcadia v1, The viewing of Arcadia. 127 cm x 140 cm Acrylic painting on canvas, part of the 1990s & Arcadia collections.

Arcadia v2.

Arcadia v2. 127 cm x 140 cm. Acrylic painting on canvas, part of the 1990s & Arcadia collections.

Artist & Model.

The Artist & Model. Acrylic painting on canvas, part of the 1990s & Arcadia series.

Phantoms Of THE Bordello.

Phantoms of the Bordello. Acrylic painting on canvas, part of the 1990s & Arcadia series.

Odalisque.

Odalisque. Acrylic painting on canvas, part of the 1990s & Arcadia series.

An Odalisque is a woman slave in a harem and the term is also used as an artistic representation, often highly eroticized, of such a slave.

Birdy

Birdy Acrylic painting on paper, part of the 1990s & Arcadia series. This is the only Arcadia on paper.

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Take Me. Acrylic painting on paper from the 1990s series. This painting will soon be available as a Giclee print.

Dark Girl. Acrylic painting on paper from the 1990s series.

Day Girl. Acrylic painting on paper from the 1990s series.

The Pet, Acrylic painting on paper from the 1990s series.

Stephanie. Acrylic painting on paper from the 1990s series.

Industrial still life, v2. Acrylic painting on paper from the 1980s series.

Eventually, all of my female form print work (Linocut & Silk screen) will be available as Giclee prints as a signed limited edition. Further, unsigned copies may also be available in due course.

My artwork draws reference from personal experience, the Gothic and Renaissance periods, comic books, film noir and gangster movies from the 1930s & 1940s and 2000 years of great art.

In due course, all of my female forms on canvas, paper and print work (Linocut & Silk screen) will be available as Giclees as a signed limited edition. Further, unsigned copies may also be available in due course.

Freddy Mills Painting

Freddie Mills. Acrylic painting on canvas 50×45 inches depicting the murder/suicide (?) of the 1940s/1950s British champion boxer and one of the first TV sports personalities, Freddie Mills.

On 24 July 1965, Mills was found dead in his car, with a bullet hole through his…

War Chic. AKA Paris 1944. On August 25, 1944, Paris was liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation. The search for some of the works of art stolen by the Nazis at the time is still ongoing. – Download image as a PDF and find out why from the Artist Vs Policy AI Post 

Soho Boogie Woogie. Painting on canvas. Gang life in London is nothing new – but while we are shocked by crimes in our modern city, I can’t help but be fascinated by those from when I lived there in my early years. Soho was known then as a den of vice.