A captivating mid-century modernist painting that depicts an imagined interior filled with paintings, framed works, and decorative forms arranged within a richly abstracted room, executed in oil onto board.

The composition feels like an artist’s studio or collector’s salon, where artworks lean against walls and hang in layered succession, creating a maze of colour, shape, and visual conversation.

Painted in a bold abstract-modernist style, the work reduces the interior into interlocking geometric forms and flattened planes of colour. Architectural structure and decorative detail merge together, giving the scene an almost dreamlike spatial quality while still clearly suggesting walls, frames, canvases, and displayed artworks.

The palette is vibrant and expressive, dominated by vivid sky blues and warm burnt oranges, balanced with soft cream, deep black, plum purple, olive green, and flashes of yellow. These contrasting tones create both warmth and movement throughout the composition, while the lighter central forms draw the eye inward like illuminated canvases within the room.

The brushwork is energetic and textural, with layered matte paint, gestural outlines, and visible directional strokes adding depth and rhythm to the surface. Loose scratch-like marks and painterly edges give the work a lively, spontaneous quality.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary wood frame with a white inner border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and there are some marks to inner white frame. 

Size: 61 x 71.5 cm (including frame)

An intimate mid-century interior painting that captures a quiet domestic moment, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1950.

The interior is centred on a small, round table draped in a vivid red cloth, paired with a slender blue chair. The setting is intimate and pared back, with a turquoise door to the left introducing depth and structure, while a small, minimally rendered painting hangs on the wall behind. A simple vase of flowers and a small vessel rest atop the table, suggesting a moment of pause, as if the space has just been left or is waiting to be occupied.

Rendered in a mid-century modernist style, the composition favours simplified forms and flattened perspective. The artist has distilled the interior into essential geometric shapes and colour blocks, creating a balance between representation and abstraction. There is a strong decorative sensibility at play, with careful attention to spatial relationships and visual rhythm rather than strict realism.

The palette is warm yet strikingly balanced. The deep red of the tablecloth anchors the composition, contrasted beautifully by the cool turquoise of the door and the soft blue of the chair. Earthy brown tones in the floor add warmth, while the walls are painted in muted creams and gentle lilacs, lending a soft, atmospheric backdrop.

The brushwork is loose yet deliberate, with visible, painterly strokes that give the surface a rich, tactile quality. Broader strokes define the walls and floor, while slightly more controlled applications shape the furniture and objects. Edges are softened rather than sharply delineated, enhancing the painting’s calm, contemplative mood.

This oil on canvas is housed in a charming wooden frame with multiple profiles, finished in warm, layered tones that beautifully complement the palette of the painting. The painting is in good condition overall – there is some craquelure present that is consistent with age, however the paint layer is in stable and does not detract from the overall appearance of the work.

Size: 57.5 x 47.5 cm (including frame)

A contemplative interior scene that unfolds around a seated female figure, absorbed in reading, executed in oil onto canvas.

Positioned beside an open window, she is framed by a gentle interplay between interior and exterior worlds where  the stillness of the room is contrasted with a distant, simplified landscape beyond. A small table with a vase of flowers and furnishing introduces a domestic warmth. The figure’s downward gaze and relaxed posture evoke a moment of quiet solitude, as though time has briefly paused within this private space.

Executed in an expressive mid-century style, the painting prioritises mood and emotional presence over strict realism. The figure is deliberately simplified, with slightly exaggerated proportions and softened features that lend a dreamlike, almost introspective quality. Spatial relationships are subtly skewed, enhancing the sense of intimacy and subjectivity. The composition feels intuitive rather than rigid, capturing not just a scene, but a feeling.

The palette is rich yet restrained, balancing cool, airy blues with earthy reds, mossy greens, and warm ochres. These tones are layered and slightly muted, giving the painting a lived-in softness. The contrast between the cooler wall and the warmer clothing creates a quiet tension, while the deeper blues and greens anchor the composition and add depth.

The brushwork is confident and expressive, with visible, gestural strokes that animate the surface. Paint is applied with a tactile immediacy, sometimes thin and sketch-like, at other moments thicker and more deliberate, allowing the artist’s hand to remain present throughout. Edges are loosely defined, and transitions between colours feel organic rather than controlled, reinforcing the emotional, painterly quality of the work.

This oil on canvas is housed in a softly toned wood frame that complements the work’s gentle, intimate mood. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 61 x 51.5 cm (including frame)