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'Rainthorpe – Hall', oil on board, 24 x 36ins (61 x 91.4cm), by Harry Steen
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'Garden, Bryn Mawr', oil on board, 24 x 20ins (61 x 50.8cm), by Harry Steen
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'Rainthorpe – Chess Set', oil on board, 16 x 12ins (40.6 x 30.5cm), by Harry Steen
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'Through Doorway', oil on canvas, 40 x 44ins (101.6 x 111.8cm), by Harry Steen
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'Rainthorpe – Out Window to Terrace', oil on board, 16 x 12ins (40.6 x 30.5cm), by Harry Steen
Exhibition
Harry Steen: Et in Arcadia ego
8 Mar 2018 – 29 Mar 2018
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 20 Park Walk
- Chelsea
- London
- SW10 0AQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: Can get 14 or 414 along the fulham road.
- Nearest tubes Southkensington or Sloane Square.
Canadian artist Harry Steen returns to Jonathan Cooper in March 2018 for his third solo show with the gallery.
About
Always enigmatic, Steen’s light-filled paintings are infused with longing for lost and rapidly changing worlds. The myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome continue to fascinate the artist, whose atmospheric works are peopled by Hellenic gods such as Eurydice and Aphrodite, and fuse these universal archetypes with a personal vision of his childhood home.
Many works in the exhibition are inspired by recent visits to an English Tudor manor, Rainthorpe Hall, Norfolk, and capture the echoes of its inhabitants past and present. Others recall villas and gardens of the American Gilded Age long since demolished, or the elegant perfection of Ancien Régime interiors, testament to the vanished beauty of its rococo world.
Filled with darkness and light, Steen’s paintings celebrate the beauty of a paradise lost while lamenting its passing, and share a vision of his own Arcadia.
