Esdailes Fine Art
Our Gallery was launched in 2023 and will open to the public during 2025 to feature fine pieces of art in both oil and water colour.
We drew the name of our gallery from an ancester, Lady Mary Esdaile whose portrait features as our logo. Her husband, Sir James Esdaile was a banker and his portrait was painted by Joshua Reynolds. It was gifted to the Kemper Art Museum in St Louis in 1905.
His portrait can be seen on this link
We drew the name of our gallery from an ancester, Lady Mary Esdaile whose portrait features as our logo. Her husband, Sir James Esdaile was a banker and his portrait was painted by Joshua Reynolds. It was gifted to the Kemper Art Museum in St Louis in 1905.
His portrait can be seen on this link
Watercolours
Watercolours are a particularly difficult paint medium as it is very difficult to correct mistakes. Pigments used are transparent and in the creation of lovely works, there may be many washes to achieve the effect that an artist intends.
What is the future of art?
There is no answer to this, but we hope you will agree that artwork on the walls of a house are the foundation for a home. It might be something created by a child of yours or something bought directly from the artist. It could be a print to remind you of a museum visit or pavement art while on holiday. All art is beautiful, though not necessarily to everyone's taste. Art styles fall in and out of fashion and what might be highly sought after in auction today might have been yesterdays rejection.
There is a fascination in seeing an artist create a picture in public view is always special.
Perhaps there will be much more art available that is imaginary, created by AI. A few of these are below. They are simply reference photos to AI created work and are really quite realistic - the problem seems that they were all done in Thailand and copied in their millions. There is also something rather false about them in that although the perspective is correct, they just don't seem real or sufficiently believeable.
Artists tend to have a distinctive style and even if their work is not signed, making an attribution that it is the work of Picasso, Matisse, Constable, Turner, Lawrence, de Breanski etc is very easy.
There is a fascination in seeing an artist create a picture in public view is always special.
Perhaps there will be much more art available that is imaginary, created by AI. A few of these are below. They are simply reference photos to AI created work and are really quite realistic - the problem seems that they were all done in Thailand and copied in their millions. There is also something rather false about them in that although the perspective is correct, they just don't seem real or sufficiently believeable.
Artists tend to have a distinctive style and even if their work is not signed, making an attribution that it is the work of Picasso, Matisse, Constable, Turner, Lawrence, de Breanski etc is very easy.
Digital art
The future of art could be digital. No longer restricted by the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture, artists can now create entire worlds with a few clicks of a button.
In the past, creating a work of art was a laborious process, often taking weeks or even months to complete. But with digital art, the process is much faster and more flexible. Artists can create multiple versions of a work, experiment with different colors and textures, and make changes on the fly.
Digital art is also more interactive than traditional art. Viewers can explore it from all angles, and even interact with it directly. Some digital artworks even allow viewers to contribute their own creative input.
With the ever-growing popularity of digital art, it's clear that this is the future of the art world. So what does that mean for traditional artists? Only time will tell. But one thing is for sure: original art is real and tangible.
In the past, creating a work of art was a laborious process, often taking weeks or even months to complete. But with digital art, the process is much faster and more flexible. Artists can create multiple versions of a work, experiment with different colors and textures, and make changes on the fly.
Digital art is also more interactive than traditional art. Viewers can explore it from all angles, and even interact with it directly. Some digital artworks even allow viewers to contribute their own creative input.
With the ever-growing popularity of digital art, it's clear that this is the future of the art world. So what does that mean for traditional artists? Only time will tell. But one thing is for sure: original art is real and tangible.
Most of the works of art in oil are from the 19th Century are in ornate gilded frames and more information can be discovered for each artist. Watercolour paintings which we have for sale extend date from 19th to 21st Century
A little about paint
Paints are finely crushed pigments derived from earths, rocks, plants, animals, minerals or chemical reaction. These are combined with either oil - usually linseed but could be walnut - or with gum Arabic (watercolours) using a glass muller to produce as fine a ground as possible. The more that the pigment is ground, the glossier the eventual oil paint or the more transparent a watercolour pigment becomes. The secondary effects are depth of colour and smoothness when applied with a brush. Apprentice artists would start their career by mixing and grinding paint until the "Master" was content that it was suitable to be applied to the canvas or panel in the studio.
Modern paints tend to be ground using milling rolls, and, of course, carefully weighed ingredients. This gives consistent colour, texture and reliable outcome for artists with very little difference between batches of the same hue. Some artists like to mix their own paint for the aesthetic pleasure. Waste can be kept to a minimum if scraped into a glass jar and turpentine added to maintain liquidity for oil paints. These scraped residues from a myriad of different palettes can be re-combined with oil and are beneficial in tinting a canvas or to sketch rough placements that might represent horizon lines or basic features in the work in production.
Modern paints tend to be ground using milling rolls, and, of course, carefully weighed ingredients. This gives consistent colour, texture and reliable outcome for artists with very little difference between batches of the same hue. Some artists like to mix their own paint for the aesthetic pleasure. Waste can be kept to a minimum if scraped into a glass jar and turpentine added to maintain liquidity for oil paints. These scraped residues from a myriad of different palettes can be re-combined with oil and are beneficial in tinting a canvas or to sketch rough placements that might represent horizon lines or basic features in the work in production.
Many artists never became famous, but their work, more or less provided a modest living. Commissioned artists tended to be portrait painters and more general artists confined their work to be landscapes and were ofted described as "potboilers". Up and down the country, these idyllic scenes hang in pubs and hotels and might even have been as payment food and lodging.
