Hugo Grenville  


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Hugo Grenville is a leading British Romantic painter whose dreamy paintings reveal a spiritual intensity. In their exploration of colour harmony, and in their celebration of pattern making, they peel back layers of feeling. The still lifes and figure subjects are inhabited by everyday objects that provide the inspiration to express the joy of light, colour and shape. In the landscapes the world around us becomes a visual poem that reveals something about how the experience feels, rather than just how it looks.

He is a popular and exhilarating teacher and lecturer. His talks on Colour and Twentieth Century Painting have inspired many, both in the UK and abroad. He teaches an evolving series of one week courses in spring/autumn from his London studio, and in 2010 in Olhao, Portugal (see Courses), and writes regularly on painting for The Artist Magazine.

Hugo is represented by major galleries both in America and the UK (see Noticeboard).

Studio visits can be made by arrangement.

“Equally important is a feeling of intimacy that recalls Matisse's contemporaries Bonnard and Vuillard. Like theirs, Grenville's paintings evoke a sense of something dreamed or remembered rather than directly observed ...... an optimistic world, a place of reverie.”

James R Borynack
President, Wally Findlay Galleries International

 

Click to view Palm Beach Exhibition '09
"Dido and Aeneas"       Oil on canvas, 42 x 42 ins (HG786)
Palm Beach Florida Exhibition February 2009

Noticeboard and Blog
Next London Exhibition
Studio Hugo Grenville 2010 painting courses

 

New beginnings. The New Year is always a good time to refresh your practice and try something new. read more >>

Capturing inspiration in the field.
What’s the best way to record and bring home what you see when you are out about about? read more >>

What makes a subject?
You're full of desire to paint, but what should you paint? Let's say you choose a landscape. How do you know it's suitable? What are you looking for? read more >>

Preparing to paint: Getting started can be the most difficult part of painting. You're faced with the blank canvas and a whole stack of expectations and fears...read more >>