Philomena Harmsworth Art
True To My Love Of Paint
The Silence in Thunder
Artists tap into thunder, like a conducting rod, and translate it into sounds and images. There’s not just thunder in Philomena Harmsworth’s pictures; but also music, movement, languorous lines, light and colour, darkness and silence. The silence exists in the eye of the storm, the absence of light or sound between lightning and thunder, and the thrill of expectation. Philomena’s new exhibition at the New Steine Hotel, Brighton, explores this dichotomy between thunder and silence.
She describes herself as a ‘method artist’. “I sketch and paint whilst immersed in the subject matter… Read more
Twilight and Orange
“Twilight and Orange”
The seasonal pictures use varying shades of blue, to echo that atmospheric time between day and night…
Olympic Sailing in Weymouth
Artist Philomena Harmsworth and author David Stuttard will host a special celebration of Olympic Sailing coming to Dorset with a glass of wine, an exhibition of Philomena’s new Olympic-themed paintings and a few words from David on the ancient Greek Games
on Saturday 28th July from 6 – 8 pm at the Cove Gallery Weymouth’s
pop-up gallery at Weymouth Baptist Church Hall, Custom House Quay DT4 8BG
House of Cards
Oil on Canvas70cm x 100cm, £800
House of Cards” is in response to Cezanne’s glorious “Card Players”. Two women sit at a card game, although it looks like the woman on the left is reading rather than playing cards. The lively painterly effect for the card-playing scene, contrast with the bleached-out street scene. Do the two women preside over the people’s fate?
Sugar and Spice
New work by Philomena Harmsworth
Gullivers Hotel, New Steine Road, Brighton, BN2 1PD, T: 01273 681546
Opening Night: Sunday 6th May 6-8
March 31st – June 10th
Philomena Harmsworth, the dynamic new artistic presence in East Sussex is preparing her latest exhibition, entitled “Sugar and Spice”. Her new set of paintings will be at the Gullivers Hotel a stylish boutique hotel Gulliver’s in Brighton’s trendy Kemptown, on Brighton’s water front, from 31st March to 10th June , as part of the Brighton Fringe festival and Brighton Open House.
This innovative collection has some very unusual, unique paintings. The thread that runs through all of them is “women”, and the many overlapping aspects within that theme: there are strong archetypal woman figures; from earth mothers to girls in frilly dresses playing with dolls. Several of the paintings toy with metaphysics; exploring the interplay between surface appearance of manners and civilisation, and the truth of the dark undertones that can lie beneath.
Swimmers
Themes of transience and the inter-related influences of objects have fed into my swimmers series. The style has echoes of the futurist movement. They focus on the extremely positive as the swimmers forge energetically through the water.
Philomena Harmsworth
“Potted Biography”
Foundation Course: Camberwell College of Art in 1993
Bachelor of Arts: “Technical Arts, Theatre Design”: Wimbledon College of Art
Set Design: Designed and built sets for Italia Conti. Worked as a Scenic Artist for seven years on Film, Theatre and Television including:
Film: “Sleepy Hollow”, “A Band of Brothers”
Theatre: “Seven Year Itch” at the Shaftsbury Theatre
Television: “Big Brother” and “Eastenders”, to mention but a few.
I have also taught Art workshops for various groups:
Training Provider at NACRO College: 11-15 and 16-18 yr olds, where I supplied the “Plus” program and Bronze and Silver levels of the “Arts Awards” programme.
Taught art workshops for 4-7 & 7-11 year olds at an after-school club at the Community Centre, Battersea.
Taught art to adults at the drop in centre: “Asylum Welcome”
In 2008 I returned to Dorset where I grew up.
Solo shows at: “Le Vieux Four”, ‘January Nudes’, “New Inn”, Stoke Abbott
Group shows: “The Little Art Gallery”, “Space”, “Artemesia”
I also have a painting in the Bridport Museum Archives.
Director of the Bridport Open Studios 2010
For Sale
The Silence in Thunder
The First Violin Oil on Canvas 103cm x 140cm, framed Read about the inspiration behind this picture Translating the Dots Oil on Canvas SOLD Read about the inspiration behind this picture Heartbeat Cellist Oil on Canvas 51cm x 40cm, framed Read about the inspiration behind this picture Blue to Bursting OIl on Canvas [...]
Twilight and Orange
“Dinner with the Stars” Oil on Canvas, Framed 40cm x 50cm, £260 “Beaminster in Blues” Oil on Canvas, Framed 40cm x 50cm, £240 “Rosy in Beaminster” Oil on Canvas, Framed 40cm x 50cm, £240 “Pheasants in Red and Blue” Oil on Chunky Canvas 30cm x 40cm, £160 “Fleeting Pheasants 3” Oil on Chunky Canvas 20cm [...]
