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MC-Nudes gallery

Hello friends!

Today we have another exciting double header! We start with MC-NUDES with 48 very hot pictures, then we go to WALTERBOSQUE-ART with 30 pictures of gorgeous Argentinean models, pure spice!

WalterBosque-Art gallery

* Dewi magazine, June 2005

The debut opening of Roy Petley’s gallery in London caused an uproar in the West End, with people seen queuing down the street to get in. In fact, that wintry October night saw so many people in the gallery that the fire department responded four times to heat alarms going off in the building.

Roy Petley (photo: Titania Veda)

This dream of an art gallery began many years ago by a boy abandoned to a children’s home. Trapped in a dark and dreary world, even the beatings by his guardians could not curb Roy’s irrepressible spirit. “My escape was painting and drawing, the reality was horrible. I quite liked the fistfights but I didn’t like the beatings,” he confides. Becoming the first ever to receive a scholarship at the children’s home at the tender age of sixteen, Roy left for Brighton University but after his first semester he decided to go to Florence in the arms of a beautiful woman. His thirst for the foundations of art, well-drawn, well-coloured and well-painted works naturally drew him to the Italian masters of old; Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo. Several years later, after living through his work in Italy, he returned to his homeland, England. There, he exhibited on the Green Park railings, a then melting pot of would be artists.

A chance meeting with the Duchess of Kent was the beginning of a lifelong friendship with the British royal family. The late Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales are collectors of his works, the late Queen Mother being particularly fond of his Norfolk landscapes. A whirlwind romance with an adoring public commenced, with sell-out shows following him wherever he went, from London to Barbados, Dublin to Dallas.

To satisfy his love of beautiful sports cars, three Alfa Romeos, engine red Ferraris and an E-type Jaguar once decorated his backyard. He even appeared on Good Morning Texas, flanked between William Shatner who “was on before me trying to promote a video game for Star Wars”, and a piano-playing-pot-bellied-pig who refused to perform. “It wouldn’t play the piano because it was camera shy”, Roy deduced.

Roy’s rags to riches story caught the eye of both the BBC and Sky Television, resulting in documentaries on his life and his art, and forced a change on his outlook on life. “I used to have people lining up to buy my work – but once the BBC did their documentary on me, they ended up banging on my front door trying to buy a paintings, it became a nightmare!” he exclaimed. Once dubbed the Best Dressed Man in London, this sort of major publicity was not in line with Roy’s solitary nature. In the early nineties, he chose tranquillity over fame and moved to a lonely farmhouse in the south-west of France. “I left England to become an unknown, to have a peaceful life”, he said. He quickly applied his energy to rebuilding his new-found home, which was soon to be featured in House & Garden, Homes & Gardens and Interior magazine.

the last of the sun by Roy Petley (courtesy of Petley Fine Art)

An impressionistic painter, he finds inspiration in his surroundings. In the summers, he is often found by local fishermen knee-deep in water, drawing models draped in flowing white dresses and adorned with wide-brimmed hats that Roy is known for collecting, or painting his neighbour’s children licking ice lollipops in his rose garden.

Self-taught, Roy experiments with all mediums, disclosing how he changes “mediums when I want to change my mind-set”. At his leisure, he moves effortlessly from pastel to oil, watercolour to sanguine. He speaks of each medium with equal passion, stressing on the ability to draw well being essential when working with any medium, particularly watercolour – “There is no changing it…there is only one chance”. He continues on saying, “watercolours are my reference for my oil paintings, an oil painting becomes a fuller version of the watercolour on a canvas.” He describes how Degas used to work with charcoal before drawing in the pastel, but prefers himself to draw with colour immediately. He is also is quick to illustrate that “pastel is a dusty medium and after a short period of working with it, I am always happy to return to my natural medium – oil.”

The subjects of Roy’s works are as varied as his mediums, drawing upon inspiration from anything and everything – portraits, still life, cityscapes and landscapes have all felt the touch of his brush in his paintings. “I usually have an idea of what I want to do before I begin, I see the world through my paintbrush and palette – all that remains to do is to recreate the image that I see in my mind.”

Whether it be landscape or still life, light and shadow are the basis of his works. There is a certain light and youthfulness, a grace and joyfulness that emanates from his paintings. He depicts an untouchable innocence that is reminiscent of childhood and days gone by. Although it may seem an old-fashioned and romantic world, this is Roy’s world as it exists today. Each painting draws you in, engages you with its subtle colours and soft lines.

sunlight in the dark canal by Roy Petley (courtesy of Petley Fine Art)

It is said that once you have had a show in Cork Street, you have made it in the art world. Having exhibited in galleries on the street for over a decade, Roy had reached a point in his life where he wanted to give something back. In his youth, Roy himself had approached gallery after gallery, carrying his portfolio, and had been turned away. In later years, the same galleries would beg him to exhibit with them – he wanted to provide artists with the opportunities he never had, with “a gallery they can trust, where artists feel comfortable”, where the open doors and laid back atmosphere would encourage artists – especially the younger ones. In the autumn of 2003, he did just that. “I started up the gallery because I was really fed up with how artists are treated”, he explained.

Petley Fine Art sets itself apart from other galleries because as Roy proudly states, “this is the first time an artist has owned a major gallery promoting work other than his own”. True to his word, Roy has raised the bar for the whole area by filling his gallery with only the finest paintings and sculptures from an international pantheon of artists. “We have famous artists, infamous artists, and also young artists just starting out in their careers – regardless of where they are in their careers, it is their talent that attracts us to them.”

It is this refreshing concoction of artists that gives the gallery its lively character and explains why artists enjoy exhibiting there. Neil Forster, an artist of Petley Fine Art and an established portrait painter whose sitters include The Prince of Wales, speaks highly of the gallery. “I thought this gallery opening in “the” art street of London and offering art with no over-intellectualizing or posing, is so refreshing that it must in time be one of the most visited galleries in London.”

Roy is also quick to point out that a lot of effort has been made to ensure nothing distracts from the paintings. His long-standing motto being, “the art is foremost, the gallery secondary and all emphasis is on the artists”.

Filled with boundless energy and enthusiasm, Roy floods his gallery with the same vitality he fills his paintings. Now with three galleries spread across Europe, Petley Fine Art seems to be going from strength to strength. As for Roy, does he miss the good old days when he was a struggling painter? “Well,” he laughs, saying, “I have artists ringing up at 4 AM telling me their problems with their wives who are jealous of their models. One artist calls up and says can I come see you now? I think, what’s going on here?”

Petley Fine Art
9 Cork St
London
W1S 3LL
+44 207 494 2021
http://www.petleys.co.uk/

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Hi!

I’d like to invite you to see my Nude Cover presented by Nude Art Gallery. I’m having a lot of fun here at the beach!

Anya

1. uslu airlines / ROR airai palau : über-modern nude, located by Joëlle (must be the umlaut) at Colette, and definitely the coolest of the cool

2. essie / mink muffs : an elegant, soft taupe that goes with everything

3. nars / bohemia : a pretty pale pink with a touch of (surprise) green shimmer

4. chanel / jade rose : i’m not ready to embrace the ever-so-trendy jade yet, so this will have to do for now

5.essie / chinchilly : only my favorite polish name ever. chinchilly chinchilly chinchilly

6. rescue beauty lounge / opaque nude : “there are pink girls and there are natural girls and in between are wildly sophisticated girls with perfectly oval buff-colored nails who never have a bad hair day”

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Nudes 1

Nudes 2

Nudes 3

Nudes 4

Nudes 5

Nudes 6

Nudes 7

Nudes 8

Nudes 9

Nudes 10

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Hello friends,

Nude Art Gallery brings a terrific HEGRE-ART double gallery filled with hot, provocative images. You’ll be delighted!

Also, bringing a bit of humor is PHOTOS & SMILES! Let’s have fun!

Hegre-Art galleries #1 & #2

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Art by Georgia O'Keefe

I would really like to take a break from the day job.  That will require, however, that I sell some photographs, a daunting prospect.  So commonplace that it has become cliché, to sell a piece of art for a significant sum of money the artist must do two things: First, he must create art and then he must die.

I am at work on stage one, but am not willing to go to step two quite yet.

Actually, I prefer Stieglitz’s definition of art.  He said to Georgia O’Keefe, “It isn’t art until somebody buys it.” At least that is what Stieglitz, as portrayed by Jeremy Irons in the biopic of Georgia O’Keefe that recently aired on Lifetime, says to her. If you saw it, you got a pretty good idea of why O’Keefe refused to live with Stieglitz and moved to Taos. The move wasn’t just for her art, it was also for her sanity.  Stieglitz was a good photographer and a great marketer of art but a lousy husband.

So, if it isn’t art until somebody pays me for it, I had better sell something.  To that end, I have begun researching the market for fine art nudes in landscapes and landscapes.

Over the weekend I had a go at eBay.  I can tell you now — from first hand experience — that most of the photographs in the  “Fine Art Nude” category are neither “fine” nor “art.”  In fact, they are awful.  Most are priced at under $10.00 and are way over priced at that.  I left the eBay site convinced that there ought to be a law prohibiting anybody from tripping a shutter while a nude is in front of the camera unless that person has first passed both an IQ test and a basic composition test.

Tallulah Bankhead once remarked, “ They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze.  They should photograph me through linoleum.”  Those guys on Ebay — and the photographers were all guys — shouldn’t be allowed to photograph linoleum, let alone a nude.

I admit that I was bored out of my mind by page four of the search and quit looking after page five, so there might be a decent nude in there somewhere but it will take a better man than me to find it.

Scratch Ebay.

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eBay wasn’t a complete bust though.  I’ve always wanted a rangefinder camera for backpacking.  So I bought a Contax G2 with two  incomparable Zeiss lenses.  If you don’t know about G2’s, here is a review.

Hello friends,

It’s an honor for me to invite you to visit Nude Art Gallery! I hope that you’ll like my Cover photo. I’ll be waiting for you with love and affection.

Kisses,

Anne

Anne

Thanks for coming to Drawn Again, a place for my drawings online.

I have been drawing – and really loving it – ever since I was around 4 years old – that’s 29 years ago – but until now I have shown them publicly just a few times.

The drawings you’ll find here are figurative and been made with charcoal, conté crayon, pen and ink and coloured pastel and work is divided into subject matter – nudes; nudes 2; flora and fauna; (mainly simple flower studies) drawn unaware (drawings of people who I saw on tubes, trains and buses who didn’t know I was drawing them) and portraits (of a variety of people – models and friends).

All the drawings on Drawn Again are for sale as original drawings or quality digital and giclée prints. Please go to the page ‘buy a drawing ‘ if you are interested in knowing more about prices and delivery details.

I hope you enjoy looking at them.

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Δείτε το video και τις φωτογραφίες με υπέροχα κωλαράκια που ακολουθούν και στοιχηματίστε ότι είναι τα καλλίτερα που έχετε δει, να είστε σίγουροι πως δεν θα χάσετε.
Δείτε το video.

Femjoy Gallery

Hi Folks, friends of Nude Art Gallery!

Have we got good stuff for you today!

A tremendously sexy double header, FEMJOY gallery with 48 beautiful pictures! Then comes DOMAI with 59 pictures, that will knock your socks off. Gigantic size pictures, a special treat for you!

Domai Gallery

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Hey Folks,

My plans for this final series are still in development, so sit tight. I am posting a few of my favorites from my first photo shoot, but there are many more to come. I am treating these photos as “sketches.” I know that I am heading in the right direction, but I also know that these are going to change a lot from now until December 2nd (their due date). I am also making a video that will sort of tie in with these images, so…we’ll see how it goes. Lots to do, lots to do….

A bientot,

Zoe