BIOGRAPHY

 

PAINTINGS

Dinner's on the Table 8" by 6" - Oil on Panel Sold Jewelry Box 8" by 6" - Oil on Panel Red Heels 16" by 12" - Oil on Linen Sold The Rocker 8" by 6" - Oil on Panel

The Corner Chair 8" by 6" - Oil on Panel Sold The Nightgown 12" by 9" - Oil on Panel Mary's - Place 8" by 6" - Oil on Panel Morning Sun 16" by 12" - Oil on Panel Sold

 

Margaret's Little Bedroom 9" by 12" - Oil on Panel	Homework 9" x 12" - Oil on Panel	Strappy Heels 12" x 16" - Oil on Panel

A Drink on the Deck 8" by 6 " - Oil on Panel	Study for "The Mushroom Hunter" 9" x 12" - Oil on Panel	Third Cup of Coffee 8" x 6" - Oil on Panel

Little Silver Lake 9" by 12" - Oil on Linen Got There First 12" by 9" - Oil on Panel Irrigation Ditch 9" by 12" - Oil on Panel Serious Reading 9" by 12" - Oil on Panel Tea in the Garden 12" by 16" - Oil on Panel Sold Haunted House 16" by 20" - Acrylic on Linen

Cottage Getaway 24" by 20" - Oil on Linen Sold Night Mood 24" by 20" - Acrylic on Linen Morning Breeze 24" by 20" - Oil on Linen I've Had That Lamp Since I was Five 24" by 20" - Acrylic on Linen Serious Reading #2 16" by 12" - Oil on Linen Sold

Evidence of Spring with Brass Jar
9" by 12" - Oil on Panel
Sold



Daybreak
36" by 48" Oil on Canvas

Evidence of Spring #4 9" by 12" - Oil on Panel Sold

Evidence of Spring #1 6" by 8" - Oil on Panel

 

Winter's Blue 24" by 30" - Acrylic on Linen The Railing 20" by 16" - Oil on Linen Lyrical Mood 36" by 48" - Oil on Linen

Spring Thaw 24" by 30" - Acrylic on Linen 11:30 30" by 24" - Oil on Linen Apple Blossom #2 30" by 40" - Acrylic on Linen

Roses for Marianne 24" by 20" - Oil on Linen Sold

His Magesty 36" by 48" - Oil on Linen Sold Gladiolas 16" by 20" - Oil on Linen Sold Bird House 16" by 20" - Oil on Linen Sold Gina's Kitchen 12" by 9" - Oil on Panel Sold

Up the Creek 36" by 48" - Acrylic on Linen Sold Good Morning Sunshine 12" by 16" - Oil on Linen Sold Study for Summer Catalogue 16" by 12" - Oil on Linen Study for Midnight Raid 12" by 9" - Oil on Panel

Larry Bracegirdle

Larry Bracegirdle, darling of Perth , is showing his paintings again after a twelve year absence! We are privileged indeed to have a show and sale of these delightful works at Gallery Perth.

Now living in Victoria , British Columbia , Larry has been painting up a storm! These recent works include his nostalgic interiors which portray a sense of “Hearth and Home” and there are also several beguiling landscapes of Lanark County !

Larry's paintings are bathed in a warm, inviting light: an intriguing use of paint and colour that is reminiscent of the surrealist, Salvador Dali and the realist, Johannes Vermeer. Both artists have influenced the Bracegirdle style. This “Modern-Old-Master” approach has become Larry's signature which he has developed over 30 years, and to which he owes his success. Several Canadian galleries own Larry's work, along with many private collectors throughout Canada and the world.

You are invited to attend the show and sale of “The Paintings of Larry Bracegirdle” at Gallery Perth, 16 Wilson Street West , on Saturday, July 28th, 2pm to 5pm . Refreshments will be served. The show continues until September 30 th, 2007.




BIOGRAPHY


About Larry

Larry Bracegirdle was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948. He grew up in Montréal and lived in Ottawa & the Town of Perth and surrounding rural Ontario for 22 years before settling in Victoria, British Columbia in 1996, where he resides today.

 

Larry began painting at an early age. He has, “made pictures” all his life. He states, “There is no deep or philosophical reason for it other than I love to paint.” Larry was encouraged by the sale of his first painting at the age of 19 and hence his professional career began in earnest in 1967. He didn’t believe he could be a ‘real painter’. But now, a s a full time professional Larry works everyday like the rest of the world. He is at his easel by seven or eight in the morning and works through to dinnertime, sometimes working into the night. His output is prolific and eager collectors and prominent galleries throughout Canada readily purchase the large number of paintings he produces.

 

As a self-taught painter, Larry calls himself a “painterly realist”. In contrast to his early work, which verged on photo-realism, he has learned through practice and self-study to loosen up and let the paint do the talking. Now there is next to no blending of the paint. He says, “I mix up a brush load, wipe it on the canvas and move on.” The method in which Bracegirdle practices his art has come full circle. Beginning with the use of photography as a technique to hone his drawing skills; then painting ‘en plein air’ in order to train his eye; to painting interiors, a subject matter which ‘sits still’; then back to photography to capture the moment, he now paints real life with finely tuned drawing skills and a keen, passionate eye.

 

Influenced by Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, Larry specializes in domestic interiors and likeVerneer, has become renowned for his use of light. The Spanish surrealist, Salvador Dali and Canadian realist Jack Chambers were also major influences.

 

Bracegirdle has been painting for almost 40 years and in that time he has painted all the subjects around him: interiors, landscapes, still lifes, horses and even an odd marinescape. He uses an extensive palette of about 12 colours and orange is his favourite. He says, “I seem to get orange into almost every painting”. Also, “oil paints are the most appealing because they give you most control and they are sturdy and sensual.” The light, the colour, the sensuality, and the comforting nostalgia of Larry’s subject matter draws the viewer in to have a closer look at the idyllic reality portrayed in his lush paintings.

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