Mari French
Surface Tension / Acrylic ink and soft pastel on watercolour paper / 29 x 29cm / £800 SOLD
Visible Traces / Mixed media on watercolour board / 33 x 33cm / £850
Rainshadow / Mixed media on watercolour board / 33 x 33cm /£850
Between Tides/ Acrylic ink on watercolour paper / 20 x 28cm /£750
Every Seventh Wave/ Mixed media on board/ 29 x29cm /£700 SOLD
Guardians/ Mixed media on board/ 29 x29cm /£700
Rising Tide/ Mixed media on board/ 45 x60cm /£1,200
Breaking Sea/ Mixed media on board/ 45 x60cm /£1,200
Black Tar and Shingle/Mixed media on paper/ 60x60cm /£950 SOLD
Still standing/Mixed media on paper/40x49cm/£700
Uncommon Ground/Mixed media on paper/
46 x44cm /£700
Out of the blue/Mixed media on paper/46 x44cm/
£700 SOLD
Suspended in time/Mixed media on paper/46x44cm/
£700
What remains/ Mixed media on watercolour board/ 46x44cm / £700
Dialogue/Mixed media on paper
46x44cm/£700
Departure / Mixed media on paper/46 x44cm/£700
Alchemy/Mixed media on watercolour board/34x34cm/
£800
Equivocal/Mixed media on watercolour board/34x34cm
£800 SOLD
Illuminated Coast iii / Mixed media on deep canvas / 100 x 100cm / £2250
Not Far Now / Mixed media on canvas/ 40 x 40cm / £900 SOLD
Changing Colours, Moorland /Mixed media on paper / 18 x 44cm / £800 SOLD
Time and Place /Acrylic and Mixed media on canvas/ 70 x 70 cm / £1750 SOLD
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Mari French is emerging as one of East Anglian's most respected abstract painters. Drawn particularly to the liminal landscapes of coast, saltmarsh and moorland, she creates expressive and evocative artworks in acrylics and mixed media, that capture her experience of place and the effects of light and weather.
The way Mari builds up her pieces - layering and wiping back media, exposing underlying passages and employing lively mark making - result in a rich surface history. Location sketching is combined with her intuition and experience of the subject, which, back in the studio, results in work that stands alone but still owes a debt to the landscape and her response to it. Mari has been a professional artist for the past 20 years, before which she had a career in graphic design after studying art and design at Stockport College. Her work is regularly selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Exhibitions at the Mall Galleries and has been exhibited with The Royal Watercolour Society at Bankside Gallery, London. She was a finalist in Artists & Illustrators Magazine’s ‘Artist of the Year’ in 2016 and The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition in 2014, both at the Mall Galleries. Her work has been featured in several art publications and is held in private collections worldwide. In 2022 she was elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. She is now based near the North Norfolk coast, working from her studio on a former 1930s RAF airbase. For sales enquires please contact team@galleryeast.co.uk |