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…..
Haunting original painting, titled Distant Lights, by acclaimed artist Steve johnstone
Image size: 48″ x 24″
Price: £1950
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Two Souls – a stainless stell sculpture by Jennine Parker.
Edition of: 95
Image Size: 18
Medium: Stainless Steel Sculpture
£799.00
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‘Family’ Sculpture by Jennine Parker.
Edition of: 95
Image Size: N/A N/A
Medium: Sculpture
£999
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Allure; a sculpture by Jennine Parker.
Sculpture
Edition of: 95
Image Size: 18″ Height
Medium: Sculpture
£1,499.00
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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
Buying artwork is a wonderful experience. Our specialist advisors here at Breeze are here to guide you through the process and help you with any questions you may have. If you require more information on any piece of art one of our team will contact you within 24 hours to discuss your requirements.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
