Tony Rothon – 2001

Andypepper — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 23:00:28 +0000

2nd October 2001

Paintings

Private views were held on:
Tuesday October 2nd 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Thursday October 4th 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Sunday October 7th 12 noon – 3pm

Viewing by appointment at other times.

For further information contact Jonathan Ross: Phone 07747 807576
or jross@gallery286.com

Exhibitions at Gallery 286

Tony Rothon is a collector of dedicated fragments. Look at the subjects laid out in these paintings. A dead frog with moth wings. (How poignant can you get?) A bird’s skull rests in a landscape, casting reflections and setting off echoes. An ornamental cabbage is dense with texture like a wall, yet full of delicate colour modulations. Something very fragile (yet at the same time tough) like a wishbone of a chicken, is painted on rough canvas laid over a thick block of wood. The presentation stands as a metaphor for the method: what is illusion, what reality? Rothon is interested in things, in people, in the business of painting. He works from direct observation, in front of the motif – see his simple but lyrical Lettuce Row, or the intent Orchard Landscape – or from memory and imagination, as in the differently inventive Walkers by the Pond. Even when he paints a portrait, subtle and complex as it undoubtedly is, we can only be shown selected highlights of the sitter’s personality. There is no completion, yet the paint itself is far from hesitant. It is applied with sensitivity. It is thoughtful. It can be angry or contemplative, it can be allusive or predominantly descriptive, but it is never coarse. Tony Rothon admits to four mentors: Euan Uglow, Patrick George, Jeffery Camp and Craigie Aitchison. Not a bad pantheon, though it could be overpowering. Somehow Rothon has survived. He recalls Patrick George’s injunction: ‘Don’t be a ponderous painter.’ He isn’t. Subtlety keeps breaking through.

Andrew Lambirth
London: September 2001

List of exhibited work

1. Gardens behind Parliament Hill	oil on canvas	£600
2. Figure with leaves	oil on canvas	£3,000
3. Lettuce Row	oil on canvas	£700
4. Head with birds	oil on canvas	£800
5. Pigeons in Sintra	oil on canvas	NFS
6. Beach Scene, San Lucar de Barremeda	oil on canvas	£300
7. Bird Skull in Landscape	oil on canvas	£800
8. Terrace at Randaval	oil on canvas	£600
9. Rachel against blue	oil on board	£1,200
10. Man on brown	oil on canvas	£800
11. Summer Garden	oil on canvas	£1,200
12. Two Men	oil on canvas	£1,500
13. Reims Cathedral	oil on canvas	£1,000
14. Red Roses in Blue Vase	oil on canvas	£700
15. Red on Grey	oil on canvas	£300
16. Pale Woman	oil on canvas	£800
17. Nude against white	oil on canvas	£1,200
18. Betty Bardo	oil on canvas	£1,200
19. American George against white	oil on canvas	£800
20. Walkers by the pond	oil on canvas	£500
21. Landscape at Fuenteheridos	oil on canvas, laid on board	£450
22. Hollygale with cats	oil on canvas	£900
23. Study for The Women’s Bathing Pond I	oil on board	£900
24. Study for the Women’s Bathing Pond III	oil on canvas	£1,500
25. Palette & hand mirror	oil on canvas	£450
26. Ornamental Cabbage	oil on canvas	£1,200
27. Orchard Landscape	oil on canvas	£900
28. Dead Frog with Moth Wings	oil on canvas	£1,200
29. French Girl and cushion	oil on canvas	NFS
30. Figure on Green Sofa	oil on canvas	£2,000
31. Wishbone	oil on canvas	£250
32. Weeping Silver Birch	oil on board	£200
33. Delphinium, Alium and glass	oil on canvas	£950
34. Clelia Rinaldi	oil on canvas	£2,000
35. Black Saucepans	oil on canvas	£800
36. Mrs. Daniels	oil on canvas	£2,500

The London Magazine – Work of Art

Andypepper — Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:00:06 +0000

The London Magazine – Work of Art, October 2001

Camilla Shivarg garden in Earl’s Court gives hope to Londerners who are despairing that they’ll never get their overgrown plots into shape.

Fuji TV – English Lifestyles

Andypepper — Thu, 31 May 2001 23:00:50 +0000

Fuji TV, English Lifestyles, June 2001.

“English Lifestyles”, is a programme made for Japanese Television by Fuji International Productions.

It is a 30 minute programme that features the home and working lifestyle of an individual or couple. Previous programmes have featured the likes of Le Gavroche owner Albert Roux, interior designers Nina Campbell and Michael Reeves as well as artists such as Andrew Logan and shoe designer Patrick Cox.

Presently the programme is broadcast on the Fuji channel in Japan and it has a reported viewing figure of three million. Recently it has also been commissioned by a satellite station called BS Fuji. The audience is very varied and includes a wide range of age groups and professionals from students of interior design to hoousewives as well as art dealers and other proferssionals interested in keeping up with the latest fashions in the UK.

Sophie Starr, FIP researcher .

Homes and Garden – Art for Art’s Sake

Andypepper — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:35 +0000

Homes and Garden, Art for Art’s Sake, January 2001

As a child, art collector Jonathan Ross made a miniature museum at home. Now his own spacious Victorian house is a huge display case for prized possessions, from holograms and paintings to antiques.