David Inshaw "Mermaid" 1998
David Inshaw is a member of the Ruralists - an art movement Peter Blake founded and describes thusly:
"Simply, our aims are the continuation of a certain kind of English painting; we admire Samuel Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Thomas Hardy, Elgar, cricket, English Landscape, the Pre-Raphaelites, etc… Our aims are to paint about love, beauty, joy, sentiment and magic. We still believe in painting with oil paint on canvas, putting the picture in the frame and hopefully, that someone will like it, buy it and hang it on their wall to enjoy it."
Inshaw's work is at once realistic while occupying the realm of fantasy. In his paintings, nature is elevated to its most mysterious and most beautiful version of itself.
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