Resident Artist

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Joel Arnstein

Joel was born in London in 1952.

He has painted, drawn and made sculptures for as long as he can remember. In recent years he has travelled widely and his current work has been painted in Nigeria, Cambodia and Switzerland as well as in England.

He obtained a degree at Brighton Art College and has worked as a designer, writer, gardener and teacher while continuing to paint, exhibit and sell work in Britain and abroad.

Joel has a fascination with colour and shape. Their relationships naturally led him towards flowers and fruit as subject matter. He has also risen to the challenge to extend the long traditions in figurative painting beyond the usual clichées and to say something new.

He often chooses a traditional subject as a starting point: a flower, fruit, the human form. By focusing on the abstract elements of colour and shapes, and their inter-relationships, he creates something different: 'the extraordinary out of the ordinary'.

His pictures are a means to share with others the wonder and pleasures of life.

He has completed a number of public and private commissions in a wide variety of media: oils, watercolours, prints, pastels and sculptures in wood, metal and ceramic.

2004: Joel has exhibited at the Horsebridge Art Centre in Whistable, Kent; the McIndoe Surgical Centre in East Grinstead and Atelier Bass in Zurich, Switzerland.

If you would like to reserve, purchase or commission a work, please call the gallery on 01233 770261. Credit card deposits or sales can be arranged over the phone.

Rose III
oil on canvas, 61x61cm
£490 unframed
SOLD - consider a commission

Artichoke
oil on canvas, 61x61 cm
£580 unframed

Cyclamen
oil on canvas, 18x13cm
£96 unframed

Opening Iris
oil on canvas, 18x13cm
£98 unframed

Apple, Apple
oil on canvas, 18x13cm
£97 unframed

Plum
etching, edition of 100
£68 framed/ £45 unframed

Nine Cherries
oil on canvas 61x61 cm
£430 unframed