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A captivating and serene winter landscape, executed in oil in 1998.

In this snow-filled composition, a lush forest is depicted beside a semi-frozen lake in the early morning of the day. The air is calm, as the reflection of the trees are beautifully cast on the still waters.

The artist has used a restrained palette comprising mellow shades of green, white and yellow; and together with the soft and light brushstrokes, the work evokes an overall sense of visual calm and tranquility.

This oil on canvas is housed in a silver frame. Both painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 46.5 x 54.5 cm (including frame)

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Abbey Remains

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A striking mid-century modernist painting that captures the elegance of the remains of a Gothic abbey, rendered in angular, abstracted forms, executed in oil onto board and dated 1955.

The artist has deconstructed the architecture into bold geometric shapes and intersecting planes, offering a stylised, almost cubist interpretation of the structure. The skeletal remains of arched windows, pointed gables, and weathered stone towers are set against a pale, faceted sky and softly undulating hills.

The palette is restrained yet evocative, with cool greys, browns, and muted greens dominating the composition. Subtle highlights of light blue and off-white suggest shifting daylight, lending a fragile luminosity to the scene. Thick, confident brushstrokes applied in mosaic-like patches give the surface a textured, tessellated effect, echoing the crumbling but enduring nature of the abbey itself.

This oil on board is housed in a beautiful distressed wood frame that pairs wonderfully with the painting. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has minor scuffs.

Size: 33.5 x 43 cm (including frame)

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A Gentle Path

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A gentle and atmospheric mid-century landscape that captures a winding path as it cuts through softly rolling fields, executed in oil onto canvas.

Small yet impactful, the composition is calm and inviting, with the path acting as a quiet guide through the scene, drawing the eye into a softly rendered horizon.

The trees, though delicately understated, are rendered in a hazy, atmospheric manner that allows their forms to dissolve slightly into the surrounding landscape. This subtle treatment gives the impression of early morning mist or diffused evening light, enhancing the painting’s quiet, contemplative mood.

Executed in a semi-impressionistic style, the artist balances structure with looseness. The foreground is built with expressive, textured brushstrokes that suggest grasses and earth, while the midground and background soften into more blended, almost dreamlike passages. This contrast creates a gentle depth without disrupting the overall stillness.

The palette is muted and harmonious, featuring soft greens, mossy undertones, warm ochres, and pale neutrals, with cooler grey-blues subtly woven throughout. The sky is light and diffused, lending a quiet luminosity that bathes the landscape in a gentle glow.

This oil on canvas is presented in a simple yet elegant silver-toned wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has minor scuffs.

Size: 32 x 37 cm (including frame)

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A Moment to Read

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A contemplative mid-century interior scene that captures a solitary figure absorbed in reading, positioned beside a softly lit window, executed in oil onto canvas.

The setting feels intimate and introspective – books are stacked and scattered across a desk and nearby surfaces. The figure’s posture, slightly bowed over the book, conveys a sense of stillness and focus.

Rendered in a distinctly expressive, modernist style, the composition leans toward abstraction without losing its figurative anchor. The artist simplifies the figure’s facial features, allowing gesture and stance to carry emotional weight. There is a subtle tension between structure and looseness – forms are blocked in with confidence, yet edges dissolve and shift, lending the scene a fleeting quality.

The palette is rich yet restrained, dominated by earthy browns, deep charcoals, and mossy greens, punctuated by passages of pale blue and a warm, luminous yellow from the window light. This interplay of cool and warm tones creates depth and atmosphere, drawing the eye toward the glowing interior light source.

Brushstrokes are tactile and deliberate: thick, painterly applications of oil give the surface a textured, almost sculptural quality. The handling is direct and unrefined in places, with visible strokes that trace the artist’s hand, reinforcing the immediacy and emotional sincerity of the work.

This oil on canvas is present in a beautiful champagne coloured wood frame with an inner cream border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffs.

Size: 74 x 59.5 cm (including frame)

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Autumn Reflections

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An expressive mid-century landscape that captures a tranquil lakeside scene at the height of autumn, executed in oil onto canvas.

Slender birch trees rise in the foreground, their pale trunks acting as a vertical counterpoint to the soft, undulating forms of cottages and foliage beyond. Across the still water, a cluster of rustic buildings with pitched roofs nestle into a hillside, partially obscured by sweeping, golden canopies of trees. The lake mirrors the scene with gentle distortion, drawing the eye into a quiet, reflective atmosphere.

Executed in a loose, expressive style, the painting embraces painterly abstraction while retaining a strong sense of place. The artist has used confident, gestural brushstrokes – often thick and directional – to suggest form rather than define it precisely. Areas of impasto add texture, particularly in the foliage and along the water’s edge, giving the surface a tactile, almost sculptural quality.

The colour palette is warm and harmonious, dominated by yellows, muted greens, and earthy browns, contrasted with cooler greys and soft blues in the water and sky. Subtle accents of red and deeper green punctuate the composition, adding depth and rhythm. The interplay of colour and reflection enhances the sense of calm, while the energetic handling of paint keeps the scene lively and immediate.

Overall, the work beautifully balances structure and spontaneity – an intimate, atmospheric snapshot of nature interpreted through a distinctly mid-century modern lens.

This oil on canvas is housed a characterful wood frame with an inner linen border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 52 x 60 cm (including frame)

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Behind the Mask

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A bold and enigmatic mid-century figurative portrait, executed in oil onto board and dated 1957.

The composition depicts a simplified and abstracted figure with a frontal, mask-like face. The facial features are distorted, emphasising expressive shapes and tones rather than realism. Containing elements of expressionism and abstraction, there is a strong emphasises on emotional resonance, as opposed to detailed representation.

The artist has used a palette that is earthy yet muted, with dominant tones of green, pink, and brown contrasting against a textured, light sky-blue background.

The brushwork is bold and expressive, with thick, impasto strokes that create a textured surface.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary wood frame with an inner cream border. The painting has some marks on its left side, as shown in close ups, and the frame has some scuffs to its edges.

Size: 43 x 35 cm (including frame)

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Blue Winter

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A beautifully atmospheric mid-century landscape, rendered with a wonderful sense of texture and restraint, executed in oil onto board.

The composition depicts an expansive snow-covered landscape beneath a vast blue-grey sky, with a low horizon and dark clusters of trees providing structure to the otherwise open scene.

The artist works in a distinctly modernist manner, reducing the landscape to broad passages of colour and allowing texture and gesture to carry much of the expression. The restrained palette is particularly appealing: cool slate and powder blues dominate the sky, contrasted against chalky whites, soft greys and muted olive greens across the snowy terrain. Small touches of turquoise add unexpected flashes of colour within the foreground.

Paint has been applied generously throughout, with wonderfully tactile, impasto brushwork and palette-knife marks creating a richly worked surface. Scraped, layered and overlapping strokes give the snow an almost abstract quality, while the heavily textured sky lends a sense of movement and changing weather. There is a lovely balance between the stillness of the subject and the energy of the paint handling.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary linen-lined wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 59.5 x 70 cm (including frame)

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Boats at Rest

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A striking mid-century modernist painting that captures the quiet charm of a coastal scene, executed in oil onto board.

Two boldly coloured boats – one in deep navy blue, the other in brick red – rest upon warm ochre sands, their strong silhouettes set against whitewashed houses with terracotta roofs. Behind them, rolling green hills meet a vivid band of cobalt sky, while the turquoise edge of the sea curves into view at the foreground.

Executed with a modernist sensibility, the scene is reduced to simplified geometric forms and flat planes of rich colour, outlined in confident black strokes. The palette balances earthy warmth with refreshing coastal blues and greens, evoking both the heat of the sun and the coolness of the sea breeze. The smooth, uniform brushwork enhances the crisp, graphic quality of the composition, lending it a timeless feel.

This oil on board is presented in a wooden frame with a linen inner border that beautifully complements the painting’s bold lines and coastal palette. Both the artwork and frame display some water marks and age-related spots, consistent with their vintage character. The frame also bears some scuffs and some scratches, most notably along the top right edge.

Size: 47.5 x 72.5 cm (including frame)

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Canyon Edge

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A striking mid-century modernist landscape rendered in a semi-abstract style, that captures the sculptural quality of the natural terrain through bold, expressive brushwork and a refined palette, executed in oil onto board.

The composition evokes an arid canyon vista, where red earth forms and sand-coloured ridges converge beneath a hazy, pale sky. A deep green tree anchors the right side, its foliage built with rapid, textural strokes that suggest movement and volume.

The artist’s confident handling of paint emphasises texture over detail, using broad, angular brushstrokes to sculpt the land into almost architectural planes. Muted purples and earthy reds contrast against softer neutrals and golden tones, lending the scene both depth and warmth. With its modernist sensibility and harmonious abstraction, this piece distills the landscape into its essential shapes and energies, offering a timeless interpretation of place through form and colour.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame with an inner linen border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent condition.

Size: 36 x 46.5 cm (including frame)

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Crosscurrents

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A striking mid-century abstract composition rendered with a bold sense of colour, movement and spontaneity, painted in oil onto board by the established Swedish painter Hans Osswald (1919-1983), whose works have been exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm, Malmö Museum as well as The Brooklyn Museum.

The painting is built from broad, interlocking passages of colour, with sweeping forms layered across the surface to create a dynamic sense of rhythm and depth.

The composition is distinctly Abstract Expressionist in character, with an emphasis on gesture, colour and the physical act of painting rather than recognisable subject matter. Strong areas of red anchor the lower half of the work, while intense blues punctuate the upper and central passages. These vivid tones are balanced by expanses of cool grey, black and white, with flashes of orange, blush pink and earthy brown adding warmth and complexity.

The brushwork is wonderfully expressive and varied. Broad, vigorous strokes sweep diagonally through the composition, while areas of thicker, more textured paint sit alongside flatter passages of colour. Rough edges, visible layering and occasional flashes of underlying pigment give the work a wonderfully immediate, energetic quality. The dark, gestural forms cutting through the upper half provide a particularly strong counterpoint to the brilliant red below.

This oil on canvas is presented in a unique gilt frame with a deep-red fabric surround, finished with an inner gilt slip. The painting has some stable areas of craquelure present, consistent with the age and nature of the work, which do not detract from the overall appearance.

Size: 53 x 45 cm (including frame)

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Distant Trees

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A beautifully restrained mid-century abstract landscape depicting a broad, open terrain beneath an expansive pale sky, executed in oil onto canvas.

The composition is reduced to a series of horizontal bands, with a small cluster of dark trees sitting quietly along the distant horizon. Their diminutive scale against the vastness of the surrounding landscape gives the painting a wonderful sense of solitude, stillness and space.

The artist takes a distinctly modernist, minimalist approach, stripping the landscape back to its essential forms. Rather than describing a particular place in detail, the scene is expressed through proportion, colour and atmosphere. The unusually high horizon and generous expanse of sky lend the work an almost meditative quality, while the isolated group of trees provides a subtle focal point and anchors the otherwise abstract composition.

The palette is wonderfully muted and sophisticated. A softly luminous off-white and blush-grey sky occupies much of the canvas, meeting a broad band of charcoal, slate and smoky grey across the middle ground. Below, warmer passages of ochre, sandy beige, muted terracotta and earthy brown introduce a gentle warmth. The near-monochromatic trees are rendered in deep charcoal and grey, creating a striking yet understated contrast against the pale sky.

Brushwork is loose and broad, particularly across the horizontal stretches of land, where visible sweeps of paint reinforce the width and openness of the landscape. The sky is more softly worked, with subtle tonal variations and vertical traces of the brush lending depth to its seemingly simple surface. Around the distant trees, the handling becomes more concentrated and gestural, with compact strokes suggesting foliage and form without unnecessary detail.

A quietly atmospheric work that captures the essence of a landscape through simplicity, tonal balance and expressive restraint.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary slim silver-toned frame. The painting has a tiny area of paint loss to the bottom right edge, as well as a small area of craquelure to the left-hand side. The paint is stable overall, and these minor signs of age do not detract from the painting’s overall appearance.

Size: 53 x 69 cm (including frame)

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Echoes of the Coast

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A dynamic yet serene mid-century modernist coastal landscape painting, executed in oil onto board.

The composition captures a tranquil seascape with a bold yet abstracted and simplified approach. A vivid blue sky stretches above a deep azure ocean, with small landmasses appearing in the distance. The foreground presents rocky terrain with dynamic, gestural strokes of earthy tones—rich browns, and hints of purple and white—contrasting with the bright greens of greenery.

Executed in a modernist style, the painting embraces expressive and slightly abstracted forms rather than realistic details. The colours are vibrant, with a strong emphasis on blues and greens, juxtaposed against warmer, muted earth tones. The brushwork is loose, gestural, and confident, with visible, textured strokes adding movement and depth to the composition. The sky exhibits smooth, blended transitions, while the land and sea are defined by more spontaneous, energetic marks, reflecting the raw beauty of a windswept coastal environment.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary wood frame with an inner gilt window. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 31 x 35.5 cm (including frame)

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Fields in Full Colour

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A vibrant mid-century abstract landscape in which the countryside has been distilled into a rhythmic arrangement of colour, shape and texture, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1971.

The composition suggests a sweeping view across rolling fields and distant hills, with the landscape unfolding in overlapping horizontal bands. Rather than describing the scenery literally, the artist has simplified the terrain into loosely defined patches of colour, giving the work a wonderfully expressive, almost patchwork-like quality. A large blue-grey hill anchors the distance beneath a softly painted sky, while the foreground is alive with shifting fields and vegetation.

The palette is particularly joyful, combining coral pink, tangerine orange, mustard yellow, apple and sage green, turquoise and powder blue, balanced by softer passages of dusty mauve, grey and cream. The colours feel sun-warmed and harmonious, lending the landscape an uplifting quality without becoming overly bright.

Paint has been applied with broad, spontaneous and gestural brushstrokes, with areas of the canvas deliberately left visible between forms. The dry, scumbled application creates a lovely textural quality, while the irregular edges of each colour field retain a sense of movement and immediacy. There is a distinctly modernist approach to abstraction, where colour and form take precedence over conventional perspective and detail.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary slim wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 48.5 x 57 cm (including frame)

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Figures by the Sea

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A wonderfully serene modernist coastal scene dated 1987, depicting three elongated figures gathered along a sweeping shorelines, executed in oil onto canvas.

One figure appears to carry or draw in a fishing net, while a central figure stands beside a loosely rendered bicycle and a third looks out towards the water. Two small sailing boats punctuate the distant sea, reinforcing the painting’s gentle maritime character.

The composition is distinctly modernist and semi-abstract, reducing both the figures and surrounding landscape to simplified, almost geometric forms. The exaggerated proportions of the figures – with their long limbs, narrow heads and softly defined silhouettes – lend the scene a dreamlike quality. Perspective is deliberately flattened, with the rolling foreground, sea and sky arranged in broad bands of colour rather than rendered naturalistically. The delicate linear construction of the bicycle and net provides an expressive counterpoint to the more solid blocks of colour elsewhere in the work.

A beautifully restrained coastal palette dominates, built around powder blue, turquoise, aquamarine, teal and deep marine blue. Small accents of darker green in the sails and deep blue along the horizon provide definition, while the luminous blue sky gives the painting an airy, summery atmosphere.

The artist works with loose, visible brushstrokes, particularly across the sea and foreground, where layered strokes and variations in tone give movement and texture to the otherwise simplified forms. Elsewhere, paint is applied in broad, relatively flat passages, with edges left softly irregular rather than precisely delineated. Fine, gestural dark lines are used sparingly to describe the bicycle, net and smaller details, adding an appealing sense of spontaneity.

Overall, the work has a wonderfully quiet, nostalgic Mediterranean feel, balancing figurative storytelling with the decorative simplicity and colour-led abstraction characteristic of late twentieth-century modernism.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary slim white painted wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has very minor marks.

Size: 68.5 x 68.5 cm (including frame)

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Flight at First Light

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A serene and atmospheric landscape composition that captures the quiet majesty of a misty wetland at sunrise, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1982.

The painting reveals a golden field of cattails as three ducks soar just above the water’s surface, their wings frozen in mid-flight. A band of trees stretches across the horizon, their dark green silhouettes softened by the morning haze and a luminous sky tinged with yellow and grey.

The artist’s naturalistic style is defined by soft, layered brushwork and a harmonious palette of orange, mossy greens, and muted sky blues. The composition balances movement and stillness – the dynamism of the birds in flight contrasts with the hushed stillness of the surrounding reeds and trees. the delicate treatment of light and mist adds atmosphere and depth, drawing the viewer into a fleeting, peaceful moment in nature.

This oil on canvas is housed in a very well suited wood frame. Both painting and frame are in good vintage condition.

Size: 45.5 x 53.5 cm (including frame)

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Interior with Painting

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An expressive and uplifting mid-century modernist painting that showcases a richly decorated interior scene, executed in oil onto board.

The composition features a still life arrangement in the foreground and a vibrant seaside painting adorning the wall. The scene is anchored by a patterned tablecloth draped over a round table, which holds a bowl of fruit, a ceramic dish, and a guitar. Surrounding the table are striped upholstered chairs, adding an inviting atmosphere to the space. In the background, a framed painting of a lively harbour with colourful sailboats adds a lively quality to the scene.

Executed in a Fauvist-influenced, post-impressionist style, the painting embraces bold colour choices, flattened perspective, and an expressive, spontaneous approach to form. The composition plays with pattern and contrast, reminiscent of Henri Matisse’s interior scenes, where objects and décor hold as much visual weight as the background elements.

The brushwork is lively and gestural, with painterly strokes adding texture and vibrancy. The artist has used a loose, expressive technique, giving the composition an energetic and dynamic feel.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame with an inner linen border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has some scuffing present.

Size: 57 x 45cm (including frame)

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Lavender Skies

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An uplifting and expressive mid-century landscape painted with a refreshing simplicity and a distinctly modernist sensibility, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1954.

A winding peach-toned road leads the eye through open fields towards a cluster of dark farm buildings and trees, their simplified forms sitting beneath an expansive lavender-grey sky. The landscape has been reduced to its essential elements, giving the scene an almost abstract quality while retaining a strong sense of place and perspective.

The artist works with a beautifully unexpected palette. Soft pistachio and sage greens sweep across the foreground, meeting areas of burnt orange and golden yellow, while the warm blush of the road provides a gentle route through the composition. These lighter tones are anchored by deep forest greens, charcoal black and touches of russet around the distant buildings. Above, the broad lilac-grey sky lends the painting its particularly distinctive atmosphere.

Brushwork is loose, broad and wonderfully visible throughout. Areas of paint have been applied in confident, overlapping strokes, with sections of the underlying ground deliberately left exposed. Rather than describing every detail, the artist uses blocks and sweeps of colour to suggest fields, trees and architecture, creating a landscape that feels spontaneous and immediate. The slightly rough edges and changing directions of the brushstrokes add movement and a lovely painterly energy.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary linen-lined frame with a dark wood outer and inner border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 40 x 47.5 cm (including frame)

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Mary

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A charming contemporary naïve style painting, executed in oil onto panel by British artist Matt Rix.

Set within a tranquil landscape, the painting depicts a sheep named Mary by the artist, standing peacefully in an open meadow, its gaze turned gently towards the viewer. In the distance, a small white cottage nestles atop a rolling hill, with a ribbon of smoke rising from its chimney beneath a brilliant blue sky dotted with stylised clouds.

Painted in a contemporary naïve style, the composition embraces simplicity, clarity and a sense of childlike wonder. The artist distils the landscape into softly undulating hills, clean silhouettes and carefully balanced forms, creating a scene that feels both timeless and quietly whimsical.

The colour palette is fresh and harmonious, combining lush greens with a vivid blue sky and warm cream tones that give the sheep a soft, luminous presence. Gentle beige accents define the animal’s face, legs and ears, while the white cottage introduces a subtle focal point that balances the composition. The restrained palette creates an atmosphere of warmth, optimism and pastoral serenity.

Brushwork is smooth and controlled, with thin, even applications of paint producing broad, uninterrupted fields of colour. Subtle tonal modulation across the sheep’s fleece suggests softness, while delicate linear brushstrokes within the foreground grass add gentle movement and texture.

This oil on board is housed in a black painted wooden frame with a gilded inner trim. Both the painting and frame are in excellent condition.

British artist Matt Rix spent his childhood in South Africa and now lives with his family on a small holding in rural North Wales. His paintings are uncomplicated, modernist representations influenced by primitive and naïve folk art from times past. Many of the subjects Rix paints are inspired by the animals he sees from day to day. Rix uses recycled materials including discarded paints, boards, frames and backing paper. Much of his work is therefore produced using waste materials resulting in sustainable paintings that evoke a time-worn, nostalgic essence.

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Size: 37 x 47.5 cm (including frame)

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Shifts in Green

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A wonderfully graphic mid-century abstract composition built around a rhythmic arrangement of geometric forms in varying shades of green, executed in oil onto canvas.

The work is divided into four loosely mirrored sections, each constructed from overlapping rectangles, angular planes and elongated shapes. There is a distinctly architectural quality to the composition, with forms that suggest stacked structures, windows and shifting façades without resolving into anything explicitly representational.

The painting has a strong geometric abstractionist character, with echoes of Constructivism and the clean, design-led aesthetic of post-war modernism. Repetition provides a sense of order, while subtle variations between each quadrant prevent the composition from becoming overly rigid. The overlapping translucent-looking planes are particularly effective, creating an engaging illusion of depth and movement across an otherwise flat surface.

The palette is beautifully restrained, moving through forest green, emerald, olive and fresh leaf green, punctuated by areas of deep blue-green and pale chartreuse. These saturated tones sit crisply against a cool silver-grey ground, giving the painting a distinctly modern feel.

Rather than expressive, visible brushwork, the artist has applied the paint in smooth, controlled passages with sharply defined edges. This precision allows colour, shape and tonal contrast to take centre stage, while the subtle layering of greens gives the composition surprising depth.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary slim white-painted wood frame. The painting itself is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has a chipped corner to the top right.

Size: 74.5 x 74.5 cm (including frame)

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Sunlit Arrangement

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A richly coloured and striking mid-century still life that presents a thoughtfully arranged grouping of domestic objects – a ceramic jug, cylindrical vessel, pears, lemons, and draped cloth – set upon a tabletop, executed in oil onto canvas.

Rather than pursuing realism, the artist has reduced each form into bold, interlocking shapes, creating a composition that feels both structured and expressive.

Executed in a modernist style with hints of Cubist influence, the painting emphasises colour, form, and spatial relationships over precise representation. Objects are simplified into geometric planes and outlined with confident contours, lending the composition a strong sense of rhythm and balance.

The palette is warm and earthy, dominated by rich ochres, burnt oranges, terracotta reds, and umber browns, enlivened by accents of lemon yellow, turquoise, and pale blue. These contrasting colours create visual energy while maintaining an overall harmony that is characteristic of mid-century modernist painting.

Brushwork is broad and assured, with visible, painterly strokes that build form through blocks of colour rather than fine detail. The surface retains a pleasing immediacy, allowing the artist’s hand to remain evident throughout.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary warm honey-toned wood frame with a stepped profile. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 38 x 49 cm (including frame)

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The Boathouse

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A large and serene modernist painting that captures a quiet waterfront scene with minimalistic charm, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1991.

The composition features two docked boats beside a boathouse, nestled against a backdrop of stylised green trees. A lone figure stands near the entrance of the boathouse, adding a subtle human presence without disrupting the painting’s calm ambiance.

Modernist in its ethos, the composition has been rendered in a flat, geometric style. The artist has skilfully deconstructed and simplified the scene into blocks of contrasting colours using expressive yet flat brushstrokes through horizontal layering that demonstrates depth to the painting. A muted yet harmonious palette of dusty greens, soft greys, beige, and pale blue have been used, imbuing with work with a soothing quality.

This oil on canvas is housed in a very well suited frame with an inner white border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffing as shown.

Size: 65 x 77 cm (including frame)

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The Colourful Harbour

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A striking modernist coastal landscape captures a harbour scene rendered through simplified architectural forms and broad planes of colour, executed in oil onto board and dated 1971.

Fishing boats rest calmly along the water’s edge, framed by buildings and sheds that sit beneath a pale, expansive sky. The composition balances structure and stillness beautifully, evoking the peaceful rhythm of a seaside port at rest.

Executed in a distinctly modernist style, the painting leans into geometric abstraction while retaining a strong sense of place. The buildings are reduced into angular blocks and softened silhouettes, giving the scene a calm atmosphere.

The palette is wonderfully soft yet vibrant, featuring dusty coral pinks, muted lilacs, pale blues, teal greens, mustard tones, and deep navy accents. These colours reflect gently across the water, creating a serene interplay of light and shadow throughout the composition.

Brushwork is controlled and deliberate, with smooth layered applications of paint contrasted against sharper linear details in the masts, rooftops, and harbour edges. The flattened treatment of form and carefully balanced tonal areas lend the work a refined, contemplative quality characteristic of mid-century coastal modernism.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary frame with a linen-lined border and gilt inner trim. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has minor age-related wear.

Size: 33 x 60 cm (including frame)

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The Green Gate

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A charming mid-century street scene depicting a secluded entrance framed by whitewashed pillars and a deep green gate, executed in oil onto canvas.

Beyond, lush foliage rises above and around the entrance, loosely rendered in overlapping forms that give the impression of a verdant garden hidden from view. The central gateway draws the eye into the composition, lending the scene a wonderful sense of intimacy and intrigue.

Painted in a distinctly modernist, semi-abstract style, the artist simplifies the architectural elements and surrounding foliage into expressive blocks of colour and loosely defined shapes. The strong geometry of the gate and pillars contrasts beautifully with the softer, more organic forms of the nature above.

The palette combines chalky whites, forest and olive greens, yellow, earthy terracotta and muted brown, with touches of dusty pink and mauve. The deep green gate provides a strong visual anchor, while the varied greens and warmer tones suggest abundant foliage catching the light.

The paint has been applied with a wonderfully tactile and expressive hand. Broad, directional brushstrokes and generous passages of impasto build up the foliage, creating a richly textured surface, while looser, thinner strokes define the architecture and foreground. This contrast in handling gives the work a lively, spontaneous quality.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary slender warm-toned wooden frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 39.5 x 32 cm (including frame)

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The Lounger

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A large and vibrant mid-century composition depicting a lounger set within a lush garden overlooking the sea, executed in oil onto canvas.

The empty chair sits prominently in the foreground, its bold orange-red and white stripes immediately drawing the eye and lending the scene a playful, summery character. Beyond, dense foliage gives way to a brilliant stretch of blue water, suggesting a secluded coastal garden and a moment of leisurely escape.

The painting has a distinctly modernist, expressive quality, with the landscape simplified into broad areas of colour rather than carefully defined forms. Trees and shrubs dissolve into overlapping patches of green, chartreuse and yellow, while the chair is more deliberately articulated, creating a striking focal point amid the loosely rendered surroundings. There is an appealing spontaneity to the composition – almost as though the artist has captured an intimate holiday moment before its occupant returns.

The palette is especially joyful. Fresh mint, emerald, olive and yellow-greens dominate the garden, set against an expansive turquoise sky and a band of deep cobalt blue sea. The chair’s warm orange-red stripes provide a vivid complementary contrast, bringing energy and structure to the abundance of greens and blues.

Brushwork is loose, broad and gestural, with visible strokes and areas where the paint appears thinly and freely applied. Drips and unfinished passages toward the lower edge reinforce the painting’s immediacy, while the foliage is constructed through quick, overlapping daubs of colour. The more linear treatment of the chair creates a lovely tension between representation and abstraction.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary slim white-painted frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has scuffs.

Size: 92.5 x 85.5 cm (including frame)

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Threshold of Presence

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A compelling mid-century abstract figurative composition in which a solitary standing figure gradually emerges from an energetic arrangement of colour and gesture, executed in oil onto board by the established Swedish artist Gunnar Johnsson (1917–2007), whose artworks have represented in public collections including the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Skåne Art Association.

Rather than defining the subject through precise outlines, the artist allows broad planes of paint and carefully balanced negative space to suggest the human form, inviting the viewer to complete the narrative through observation. The result is both expressive and contemplative, capturing presence through abstraction rather than detail.

Executed in a distinctly mid-century modernist style, the painting balances gestural abstraction with figurative suggestion. Large geometric passages and painterly forms create a dynamic architectural rhythm. The work is confident, and every mark contributes to the overall harmony of shape, balance and movement.

The palette is rich and sophisticated, combining deep burgundy and rust with warm ivory, chocolate brown and charcoal black. Accents of blue-green provide striking contrast, introducing depth and visual tension against the warmer earth tones. The interplay of dark and light passages gives the composition both weight and luminosity.

Brushwork is bold, expressive and highly tactile. Broad palette-knife passages sit alongside dry-brushed textures and confidently loaded strokes, revealing the physicality of the artist’s process. Areas of opaque paint contrast with lightly scumbled surfaces, allowing underlying layers to subtly emerge and enriching the painting with texture, movement and a strong sense of material presence.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary wood frame with a warm gilt finish. Both the painting and frame are in very good vintage condition.

Size: 83 x 63 cm (including frame)

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Along the Blue Coast

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A charming mid-century modernist landscape that distils a coastal scene into a series of simplified shapes and harmonious colour fields, executed in oil onto canvas.

Rolling greenery, pale hillside forms, and a deep blue sea are reduced to their essential elements, creating a composition that feels both abstract and recognisably rooted in nature.

The artist employs a distinctly modernist approach, favouring flat planes of colour over detailed representation. Houses emerge from the landscape as geometric forms, their pale facades and muted terracotta roofs nestled amongst rounded masses of foliage. The result is a composition that balances abstraction with a strong sense of place, evoking the warmth and tranquillity of a Mediterranean coastal setting.

The palette is beautifully restrained, dominated by soft sage greens, pale mint tones, cool greys, and varying shades of blue. These colours create a gentle rhythm across the surface, while subtle contrasts between the dark foliage and luminous architectural forms provide depth and visual structure. The expansive blue sea and sky lend the work a calm, contemplative atmosphere.

Brushwork is confident. Broad, deliberate applications of paint define the landscape through shape rather than detail, while visible texture and vertical traces within the paint surface reveal the artist’s hand. The slightly uneven application of colour enhances the work’s tactile quality, reinforcing its modernist character and lending warmth to its simplified forms.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary slim cream-painted wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffs and marks.

Size: 45 x 72 cm (including frame)

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At the Market

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A warm and nostalgic figurative composition depicting a lively market scene, painted in oil onto board, framed and ready to hang.

The loose, expressive brushstrokes and bold yet slightly muted colours give it an impressionistic feel. The figures appear in mid-conversation or activity, creating a sense of movement and casual everyday life.

The central figure, a woman in a black top and green skirt, appears calm and composed. She draws the viewer’s eye and provides a human anchor amid the busier setting. The background shows fragmented architecture, sunlight, and possibly docks or sails, all rendered in a painterly, almost abstract way.

The painting conveys a sense of sunlight and warmth, and the bustle of everyday life.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary slim wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. There are some light marks to the frame.

Size: 35 x 43 cm (including frame)

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Boathouse

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A soothing and restful modernist style river landscape composition, executed in oil and dated 1971.

The composition presents a boat shed situated in lush greenery, and resting by a river where a boat is docked.

The use of a cool and earthy colour palette including shades of blue, green, and brown imbues the painting with a calming feel. Containing impressionist qualities, distinct painterly brushstrokes have been dabbed swiftly across the surface, beautifully capturing the nature landscape and transient conditions of reflection and rippling effect of the water.

This oil on canvas has been laid onto board, and is housed in a complementary wood frame with an inner linen border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. A tiny sliver of the backing board is visible to the top right corner. There is age toning to the linen border, as well as light wear to some of the frame corners.

Size: 54 x 48 cm (including frame)

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Coastal Path

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A very atmospheric and expressive landscape painting, executed in oil onto board by contemporary British artist Ian Mood.

It is a dynamic, abstracted landscape that captures the essence of walking along a windswept shoreline trail. It blends expressive brushwork, shifting textures, and a vivid, elemental palette to evoke both the physical and emotional experience of the coastline.

Pink dashes and shapes dance across the centre, adding rhythm and possibly indicating human presence, wildflowers, or directional markers on a path. The brushwork is loose, textural, and emotionally charged, capturing fleeting impressions over literal depiction.]

Overall, the painting conveys solitude, discovery, and elemental energy. It’s less about representing a specific location and more about evoking the feeling of being immersed in nature—the wind on your face, the shifting weather, the wide horizon ahead. It celebrates the freedom and introspection of walking the edge between land and sea.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary white frame. Both painting and frame are in excellent condition.

Size: 65.5 x 65.5 cm (including frame)

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About the artist:

Ian Mood is a contemporary artist with an international reputation, having shown work with Saatchi London, Brooklyn Art Library, Battersea Art Fair & Manchester Art Fair – as well as being represented by numerous established galleries in the UK and US. He recently held his first solo show in New York.

In 2019, he collaborated as artist in residence with The National Theatre (Madness of George III with Mark Gatiss) and The Royal Exchange Manchester (Mother Courage with Julie Hesmondhalgh).

Ian is a member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Society Of Staffordshire Artists and the Artist Association of Nantucket (USA) where he regularly lectures as part of their summer arts programme. He was awarded the Artists Association of Nantucket Frank Swift Chase Plein Air Award in 2014.

Ian grew up in Stoke on Trent and studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

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Cottage Among Green Hills

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An expressive and dynamic mid-century landscape painting scene of houses nestled in rolling green hills, and executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1953.

At the centre, a farmhouse with a sloping roof and chimney is flanked by a smaller outbuilding, both painted in earthy tones that anchor the scene. A winding track leads the viewer’s eye into the composition, curving through undulating fields of luminous greens that dominate the canvas. In the distance, clusters of trees and layered hills create a sense of depth and seclusion, while above, the sky is rendered with expressive strokes of pale blue, violet, and white.

The style is boldly modernist, with loose, energetic brushwork and a sense of immediacy in execution. Colours are vibrant yet natural, dominated by shifting greens, ochres, and deep blues, accented by flashes of light that suggest fleeting sun across the fields. The brushstrokes are broad and textured, imparting movement and vitality, while still maintaining a structured composition that balances geometry and spontaneity.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary wood frame. The painting has some light craquelure present with areas of paint loss present, as shown in close ups.

Size: 34.5 x 43 cm (including frame)

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