Anthony Oliver : artwork
Anthony Oliver
I am British artist based in Brussels .
My website gives a description of my approach www.anthony-oliver.com.
My website gives a description of my approach www.anthony-oliver.com.
American dream , American woman
A dream age in 1950's America big cars , power suits , innocence , money, power, Dichotomy .
Sunday best
A mother & son on the porch wearing their Sunday best clothes
Liquors , Liquors , Liquors
A drugstore street scene
Langley HQ
Headquarters of the CIA
Plane
An aeroplane
Friday evening
A portrait of a young woman getting ready to go out on a Friday evening .
Le pont de l'Alma
A painting of the tunnel where Princess Diana died . Light & Dark contrast .
Remnant
A crypt . Where do we go when we die whether kings or queens or serfs ? The Sun shines ever on .
The editor's office ( hommage to Lauren Bacall )
Lauren Bacall is painted on the magazine cover upside down on the desk .She is powerful. The editor is sitting in the back office late at night .He is not so remembered as she is now.
Grinning suit
Would you buy a car from this man ?
Mary VI
1 of a series of paintings based around a character called Mary : Earth , Gaia , Mother , Madre .. a necessary guardian angel .
The Highlife: opals , gold and fastcars
Wealth and class and social grandstanding in the 1960's
Coppice
Without trees we would be , in the most literal sense , without roots . In the UK coppiced woods can be dated as far back as 5000 B.C.
Hold the light of summer
But the Poppy is painted glass; it never glows so brightly as when the sun shines through it. Wherever it is seen-against the light or with the light – always, it is a flame, and warms the wind like a blown ruby.
In rough seas of the coast of Ireland
A memory to a trip , the beauty of Ireland and the deceptive beauty of "grey" .
A memory of Budapest
A view over Budapest .
She was a star of the silver screen
Marilyn Monroe surrounded by men men men . Journalists , photographers , admirers , stalkers . All feeding off her mouths biting pieces like piranhas .
A brave new world
A hummingbird coming to feed on ortolana berries , 2 young women , some secret writing and a partially hidden sculpture .
Sunflower
Masks always make me think of Ensor .One of my favourite painters . El Baron !
Absolve us
Absolve us : we are , after all , fallen from the stars that made us and thus deeply flawed .