Skip navigation
Saatchi Gallery
SAATCHI ONLINE
ARTISTS
SPONSORED BY
Saatchi Gallery
4 NEW SENSATIONS 2009 CHANNEL4 TV PRIZE AND EXHIBITION FOR SAATCHI ONLINE ART STUDENTS



Saatchi Gallery
 SAATCHI ONLINE TV &
 DAILY MAGAZINE
VIEWS, REVIEWS, PREVIEWS, ARTISTS' VIDEOS, FILMS OF
ART OPENINGS, INTERVIEWS, YOUR BLOGS, YOUR VIDEOS, ART NEWS UPDATED EVERY 15 MINS.




GALLERY ONLINE
SHOP









new gallery virtual tour
saatchi gallery london



Saatchi Gallery
 
GALLERY HIRE
 FOR EVENTS
saatchi spacer

English to Chinese English to Dutch English to French
English to German English to Italian English to Japanese
English to Korean English to Portuguese English to Russian
English to Hebrew English to Polish English to Ukrainian
English to Spanish English to Arabic English to Brazilian



publications
School Visits
Talks And Workshops
SCHOOLS' PRIZE
visitor information
press Contact
membership
saatchi spacer
LINKS - ADD YOURS
saatchi spacer
saatchi spacer
black spacer

*


*


*


*
*


*
*



*

TOP 200 ARTISTS
OF THE 20TH CENTURY
TO NOW


TIMES READERS AND SAATCHI ONLINE VISITORS VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE ARTISTS

AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:

-Pablo Picasso
-Paul Cezanne
-Gustav Klimt
-Claude Monet
-Marcel Duchamp
-Henri Matisse
-Jackson Pollock
-Andy Warhol
-Willem De Kooning
-Piet Mondrian
-Paul Gauguin
-Francis Bacon
-Robert Rauschenberg
-Georges Braque
-Wassily Kandinsky
-Constantin Brancusi
-Kasimir Malevich
-Jasper Johns
-Frida Kahlo
-Martin Kippenberger
-Paul Klee
-Egon Schiele
-Donald Judd
-Bruce Nauman
-Alberto Giacometti
-Salvador Dalí
-Auguste Rodin
-Mark Rothko
-Edward Hopper
-Lucian Freud
-Richard Serra
-Rene Magritte
-David Hockney
-Philip Guston
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
-Pierre Bonnard
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
-Max Ernst
-Diane Arbus
-Georgia O'Keeffe
-Cy Twombly
-Max Beckmann
-Barnett Newman
-Giorgio De Chirico
-Roy Lichtenstein
-Edvard Munch
-Pierre Auguste Renoir
-Man Ray
-Henry Moore
-Cindy Sherman
-Jeff Koons
-Tracey Emin
-Damien Hirst
-Yves Klein
-Henri Rousseau
-Chaim Soutine
-Arshile Gorky
-Amedeo Modigliani
-Umberto Boccioni
-Jean Dubuffet
-Eva Hesse
-Edouard Vuillard
-Carl Andre
-Juan Gris
-Lucio Fontana
-Franz Kline
-David Smith
-Joseph Beuys
-Alexander Calder
-Louise Bourgeois
-Marc Chagall
-Gerhard Richter
- Balthus
-Joan Miro
-Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
-Frank Stella
-Georg Baselitz
-Francis Picabia
-Jenny Saville
-Dan Flavin
-Alfred Stieglitz
-Anselm Kiefer
-Matthew Barney
-George Grosz
-Bernd And Hilla Becher
-Sigmar Polke
-Brice Marden
-Maurizio Cattelan
-Sol LeWitt
-Chuck Close
-Edward Weston
-Joseph Cornell
-Karel Appel
-Bridget Riley
-Alexander Archipenko
-Anthony Caro
-Richard Hamilton
-Clyfford Still
-Luc Tuymans
-Claes Oldenburg

TO SEE THE FULL 200 CLICK HERE
*



*
Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi Gallery


Saatchi Online Logo
*

showcase your art to thousands
of visitors every day

 

 


*

 

Mike Fenton
 
 
About the Artist

I'm working on a series of landscape drawings from photographs taken from my local area. Part of the drawing is a reference to a famous impressionist painting written like the 'title' part of an illustration found in an art book. This is to complicate and confuse the viewing process in order to reveal my own disorientation, and also to emphasise the link between the history of representation and 'natural' beauty. I also paint abstract pictures which are colourful and tranquil and, because they are painted with an airbrush, can have a 'digital' look. This is deceptive however, because they are painted in an improvised, ad-hoc way, and undergo many re-paintings and revisions, reflecting my concerns with balancing the formal elements in a traditional abstract-art way, i.e., concerns regarding colour, tone, line and rhythm.

 
Click to enlarge images
(if larger image has been loaded)
 

Detail of Fig. 63

2008
pencil on paper
120 x 80 cm

Martin

2009
pencil on paper
80 x 60 cm

Plate 62

2008
pencil on paper
60 x 80 cm

Plate 62

Every Mouthfull

2009
acrylic and oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm

Plate 61

2008
pencil on paper
60 x 80 cm

Plate 61

Plate 60

2008
pencil on paper
80 x 60 cm

Untitled Landscape

2009
sepia on paper
80 x 58 cm

Blank

2008
acrylic on canvas
101 x 152

Disorganise

2007
acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm

Disengage

2007
arylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

 
Education and biography
University
Sunderland University, BA (Hons) Fine Art 1979-1982

Exhibitions
Various group and individual exhibitions during the 1980's and early 1990's including:

1983-94 The Whitechapel Open; The Royal Overseas League; The Cleveland Drawing Biennale; South London Gallery Open; The Guardian sponsored Art for Sale at Whiteleys.

In the mid-1990's I took a break for a few years from art, working full-time and traveling for a year. In 1999 I took a studio in Peckham and began to paint again with a very different style.

Jan 2004 Target Follows Wembley Point Corporate Headquarters

Sept 2004 Bally Shoe Factory, Norwich.

April/May 2005 Inprint at Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester and The Cut, Halesworth.

June 2005 Two person show at The Harleston Gallery, Norfolk.

Sept 2005 Bally Shoe Factory, Norwich.

Aug 2006 Two person show at The Hobart Gallery at the National Trust's Blickling Hall, Norfolk.

June 2007 with InPrint at the Welborne Arts Festival, Norfolk.

July 2007 Mixed show at the Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk.

Collections
I have sold to private collectors in the U. K., Italy and America.
 
Future shows
'All Mixed Up' at the Eyestorm gallery in Ipswich. Saturday 27 June to Sunday 12 July, 10-5pm, Tues-Sat. Further info: 01473 222197; info@eyestormdesign.com
 
Website:  www.gallerymikefenton.co.uk
 
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CONTACTING THIS ARTIST, CLICK HERE


CLICK HERE TO SEND THIS PROFILE TO YOUR FRIENDS
 
 
*

The Saatchi Gallery Site Map
Copyright 2003-2009 © The Saatchi Gallery : London Contemporary Art Gallery