Sydney Foley (1916-2001) - Signed 1986 Oil Winter Park Scene

Description

A delightful winter landscape study by the British artist Sydney Foley (1916-2001). The work has Foley's typical layered and textured style, portraying the play of light on the tree trunks. There is also a comforting familiarity with nature as a subject, evident in the artist's impressionist style. Signed in graphite to the lower right corner. Inscribed to the reverse 'sketch for Demo - restricted palette - 18 Harefield Art Society - 6 March 86'. On wove laid card.

Condition

Inspection under UV light reveals no restoration. Overall the condition is very good. There are some minor scuffs to the corners of the card.

Size

26.1 x 35.9cm (10.3" x 14.1")
Sheet: 28.7 x 39cm (11.3" x 15.4")

Artist Biography

Sydney Foley was born in Tottenham in 1916 and educated locally. He started painting at Tottenham County School from where he won a “Saturday Morning Scholarship” at Hornsey School of Art. An artist with a wide-ranging interest in drawing and painting in all the traditional media, he worked mostly in plein-air painting. He exhibited regularly with several of the London-based societies and was a member and Past President of the Wapping Group, the United Society of Artists, the London Sketch Club, the Artists Society, the Langham Sketching Club, the RWS Club and he was President of the Walton Art Club. He also showed at the RSMA of which he was an elected Fellow.


Although much of Foley's painting was on the Thames and River Medway, he also worked elsewhere in Britain and in France and Venice, the last of which he visited each year. He had many solo and joint exhibitions and among his prizes was a Stanley Grimm Prize of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. An example of his work is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum.