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  M J Forster

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Jeff Birkbeck

Colin Halliday

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Rebecca Ann Wilmer

Mariusz Kaldowski

Michael F Miller

Augustus Francis

Julie Dumbarton

M J Forster

Jonny Rotherham

Andrea Hunter

Malcolm Ludvigsen

Andrew Tozer

 

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M J Forster

Born in Oxford in 1975, M J Forster initially studied a foundation in the arts at Newcastle College of Art and Design before pursuing a degree in Sports Science. The artist spent much of his spare time continuing to paint and draw and upon graduation, quickly resumed his artistic career.

Continuing his artistic progression, MJ Forster has developed a distinct style and technique associated with the medium of watercolour, reinvigorating what is traditionally perceived as a conventional medium. The work has an almost graphic quality, and contains a feeling of enhanced hyper reality, perhaps intimating something close to a utopian ideal.

NEW M J Forster
'Lake District'
2009, Watercolour on Paper
18.5”x26.5”
£1450 NEW M J Forster
'Silver Birch'
2010, Watercolour on Paper 
27.5”x19.5”
£1450 NEW M J Forster
'West Coast of Scotland'
M J Forster
'Lake District'
2009, Watercolour on Paper
18.5”x26.5”
£1450
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M J Forster
'Silver Birch'
2010, Watercolour on Paper
27.5”x19.5”
£1450
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M J Forster
'West Coast of Scotland'
2010, Watercolour on Paper
13”x19.5”
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  Angela Wakefield, 'The Royal Mile, Edinburgh'  
  M J Forster
'Yorkshire Dales'
2009, Watercolour on Paper
27.5”x15”
£1100
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Initially, M J Forster’s watercolour work has a sense of perceived simplicity. The heightened colour values are realised by a series of controlled watercolour washes empathetic to the screen-printing process. The methodical layering of the separate washes, applied dry on dry, allows the surface to open up a much broader palette. Forster likens the work to a sonnet in the sense that they are created within a restrictive framework and out of that limitation a greater creativity emerges.

Over the past ten years, interest and demand in M J Forster’s watercolour work has grown considerably. During this time the artist has travelled extensively to develop his original watercolour technique. Over a period of two years he lived, worked and exhibited his contemporary paintings in South East Asia, Mexico, Northern America and Canada eventually reaching the Arctic Circle before spending an intensive developmental period painting in Otago, New Zealand. Working Plein Air in these challenging yet inspiring locations has defined the way the artist has sought to find the very soul of the landscape.

 

 

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