Ginny Gray Gallery To Host New Works by Theo Booth

Written by Arnold Parkinson Saturday, 10 September 2011 21:30

London.- Barcelona-based artist Theo Booth celebrates jazz age glamour, playful sensuality and the romantic and escapist possibilities of travel in his evocative and widely collected original paintings. A new exhibition of Theo's work begins with a Private View at the Ginny Gray Gallery in Buckingham from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on the evening of Saturday April 23rd. The exhibition will then run until May 30th.  St George’s Day (Saturday April 23rd) has been specifically chosen for the Private View because St George is the patron saint of both England and Catalonia, where Theo is now based.

The gallery will be serving drinks and nibbles with a Spanish/English twist. Theo has an amazing natural ability as a painter coupled with a fertile imagination. His influences include Picasso, Modigliani, Tamara de Lempicka, William Roberts and Art Deco but his style is very much his own.

Born in Badminton, Gloucestershire in 1947, Theo trained as an engineer and worked as a photographer and boat restorer before becoming a full-time artist in the 1990’s. Theo paints mainly in acrylics on board or canvas. There is a delicious air of decadence in much of his oeuvre. His work features in collections in numerous countries. Mediterranean themes and preoccupations figure frequently in Theo’s pictures.

He lived and worked for several years in Croatia and Portugal and is currently to be found painting in Barcelona, Spain. A typically strong use of line gives his curvaceous female subjects great (and often seductive) character while at the same time allowing the artist to experiment with the fascinating, occasionally cubist angles that lend his enjoyable compositions such depth and interest.

Theo’s work is being displayed on the ground floor of the gallery. Meanwhile, the upstairs gallery will feature a mix of work from a variety of leading contemporary artists including Sue Moffitt, Pam Carter, Iain Carby, Janet Rogers, Christopher Townsend, Trevor Price and Mychael Barratt. Ginny Gray is a contemporary art gallery well-known for the high quality, affordability and diversity of their carefully chosen artworks. Gallery owners Ginny and Rob Gray both love art and enjoy finding beautiful pieces. They represent widely collected artists from across the UK and further afield but also like to support and promote the cream of local artists from Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. The gallery is located close to the Georgian Old Town Hall in Buckingham. There's always something interesting going on at the Ginny Gray Gallery. Visit the gallery's website at ... www.ginnygray.com

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