Breeze

We had the great pleasure of speaking to a chap called Michel Le Prince in our gallery at Jenners this morning.

Michel is a long-standing friend of Bob Dylan and wanted to view his much talked about collection.

A retired doctor, who originates from Nice in France, Michel recalled with great fondness the late sixties when he met Dylan for the first time at the Nice Jazz Festival - which his father was a founding organizer. He also recalls sketching, with Dylan, portraits of one another.

Now retired and living in Portobello is a keen artist and is well known in the community in Edinburgh.

Michel’s son is buying a copy of the drawn blank book for his father as a gift. Fond memories will be rekindled every time Michel picks up his copy of the drawn blank book!

The bank holiday on Monday for the west of Scotland saw many visitors to our galleries from Glasgow and surrounding areas.  And just to show how true the old adage “it’s a small world” really is our Peebles gallery manager, Elizabeth, was surprised and delighted to bump into a school teacher she hadn’t seen in many years.

Although Elizabeth had a hard time now calling a former teacher by her first name, Sharon and her husband said they thoroughly enjoyed the fantastic range of art and furniture that they found in the Peebles gallery - although they did admit that Alexander Millar was their favourite.

Fans of great art in the west of Scotland will soon find that that they don’t have to travel quite so far the outstanding offerings from Breeze.  Watch this space…..

Emotions is a stunning original from acclaimed artist, mark Spain, new to the breeze art gallery.

Title: Emotions
Size: 790 x 940 mm
Framed: Possibly this is the same as your existing framed pieces
Medium: Oil on canvass
£5450.00

Stunning original art work, titled Girls By The Sea, by acclaimed Scottish artist, Steve Johnston.

Image size: 48″ x 24″

Price: £1950

Haunting original painting, titled Distant Lights, by acclaimed artist Steve johnstone

Image size: 48″ x 24″

Price: £1950

Two Hearts sculpture by Jennine Parker

Sculpture
Edition of:     50
Image Size:     15″ Tall
Medium:     Sculpture

£2,500.00

Two Souls - a stainless stell sculpture by Jennine Parker.

Edition of:      95
Image Size:     18
Medium:     Stainless Steel Sculpture

£799.00

‘Family’ Sculpture by Jennine Parker.
Edition of: 95
Image Size: N/A N/A
Medium: Sculpture

£999

Allure; a sculpture by Jennine Parker.

Sculpture
Edition of: 95
Image Size: 18″ Height
Medium: Sculpture

£1,499.00

I firmly believe Steve is one of the greatest singer/songwriters of his generation and a truly great performer, I strongly recommend you take the opportunity to see him “live in concert. I am honoured and delighted that such a talented and inspirational figure such as Steve has supported my work over so many years.

Paul Horton

Price: £24.95

Recently we gave our customers the chance to win a limited edition print by one of our favourite artists; Peter Smith. All you had to do was pick a name for the bunny in Peter’s painting “Some Bunny Loves You”, shown above to win another of Peter’s prints; “Pick Me”.

We are delighted to announce that the name of the bunny is now “Cuddles” as chosen by Evelyn Gordon.  Congratulations, Evelyn, from all the team at breeze.  We hope you enjoy your painting!

Jennine’s work expresses a passion to create smooth, flowing lines, movement shape and texture. She gains inspiration from natural weathered erosion to create a contrast from smooth to textured surfaces. Interesting shapes and lines are naturally created from every angle, the feeling of needing to hold or touch the sculpture being her deliberate intention.

Sculpture
Edition of:     295
Image Size:     15¼” Height
Medium:     Bronze

£199.00

Jennine’s work expresses a passion to create smooth, flowing lines, movement shape and texture. She gains inspiration from natural weathered erosion to create a contrast from smooth to textured surfaces. Interesting shapes and lines are naturally created from every angle, the feeling of needing to hold or touch the sculpture being her deliberate intention.

Sculpture
Edition of: 295
Image Size: 15¼” Height
Medium: Bronze

£199.00

Now sold out from the publisher, breeze is delighted to offer this rare sculpture by Jennine Parker.

Amore:

Sculpture
Edition of:     95
Image Size:     16″ Height
Medium:     Sculpture

£999.00

Peter Smith rounded out his UK tour this weekend with visits to breeze in Peebles on Friday and then to our gallery in Jenners, Edinburgh on Saturday.

Both galleries were very busy for his arrival and the guests were treated to some fantastic, personal stories from Peter on the journey that each painting makes from the blank canvas to the finished piece.

As you can see from our photos of the event, Peter was kind enough to personally autograph and doodle on the back of some of the paintings sold.

On his own blog, Peter said “It was pretty packed as I arrived, this photo was the first five minutes and it never really stopped for the next few hours, we eventually got back to the hotel a little before 10:00pm, tired but extremely happy with the appearance.”

Everyone here at breeze would like to thank Peter and all our guests for making this a wonderful, fun-filled event.

We have posted more photos from this event over at the photo sharing website Flickr. You can view them here: Peter Smith Event 2009

“I put a shooting star across the top of the painting and it perfectly finished it off.”

Shooting Star by Govinder Nazran. This limited edition print is now sold out from the publisher - don’t miss out on your chance to own this increasingly rare work of art.

Edition of: 150

Image Size: 35.5 X 26

Medium: Canvas on Board

Framed: £750

Peter Smith will be appearing live at the breeze gallery in Peebles and also in our gallery at Jenners, in Edinburgh this coming weekend.

Don’t miss out on this chance to meet this world renowned artist in person.

The first 15 purchases on the the day will receive free the exclusive ‘Pick Me’ limited edition print - only available at artist appearances!

The breeze team had a fantastic time at the Bob Dylan concert at the Edinburgh Playhouse last Sunday. The team were in attendance showing our incredible (and now very rare) limited edition prints from Dylan’s ‘Drawn Blank‘ series.

However, an outstanding treat was in store for the breeze director, Bob Corsie. One concert-goer, who was lucky enough to snap up one of the art works on sale, mentioned to Bob that he had a spare ticket for the show that evening - an opportunity that was quickly snapped up.

Bob said that “the performance that Bob Dylan gave to his fans from Scotland was quite simply out-standing! We were treated to a show where Bob played 4 songs on his own with his acoustic guitar - I, like everyone else in the Playhouse, was simply blown away!”

Click here to view our Bob Dylan gallery online.

Passing Through by Paul Corfield

The second of the new limited edition prints by Paul Corfield in his trademark style.

Canvas On Board
Edition of:     150
Image Size:     24 x 24
Medium:     Canvas On Board

Framed:     £399.00

Sailing.

A vibrant new limited edition print from the new range of art work by Paul Corfield

Canvas On Board
Edition of:     150
Image Size:     24 x 24
Medium:     Canvas On Board

Framed:     £399.00

View From The Hill

This painting started out from a very basic photograph that I had taken of a hill covered in Heather and bracken that was lit by the setting sun. I’ve had the photo for ages and always planned on doing something with it but never quite knew what. With my older technique, with everything being very smooth it wouldn’t have worked at all which is why I haven’t touched the photo until now. All the texture allows me to really convey the colours and really have fun with the paint. As my work has got more impressionistic I’ve also been studying a lot of Monet’s paintings, or to be more specific the colours used in light and shadow. Colours in light and shadow is an area that gives me the most pleasure and it’s the thing that I enjoy the most in painting and experimenting with this in particular is what drives me on from one painting to the next.

Limited Edition Print
Edition of:     150
Image Size:     24 x 24
Medium:     Canvas On Board

Mounted:     £366.60
Framed:     £450.00