To ask - who is your favourite artist and why?

[Findawaytobehappy]

Just that really. Do you have a favourite artist? Or style? And why does it sing to you?
Only got in to art a couple of years ago and feel like a whole new world has been opened up - so would love to know who else I should be learning about.

@Sarahlou252 ah yes some beautiful ones you have. I have The Call of the Trees and I think it’s enchanting.
You’re right, they are very Enid blyton. Love them.

The most wonderful painting I have seen is Vermeer’s The Dairy Maid.
Love David Hockney who shows me what I haven’t seen before - his trees at the RA a few years ago. It made me really look at the trees everywhere I went and at different times of the year.
Then there is Van Gogh who painted with such emotion and breathed life into everything he saw.

Monet, his paintings are so relaxing.
Also Norman Rockwell.

Have to add Lowry.Love his paintings and his life is so fascinating and he was such a character.

Paul James https://www.pauljamesgallery.com/

Too many!
Caravaggio is my absolute favourite. We saw one of his less famous paintings in a church in Rome and DH got bored of waiting for me so went and got coffee!!

Dalí - we were lucky enough to go to the museum I’m Florida last year.

Jonathon Yeo - great portraits.

Grayson Perry - I don’t love everything he’s done but love his pottery.

Last one I promise, in the NPG there is a huge painting by George Hayter (attached) that I can stand in front of for hours.

@bridgetreilly

Could you say why? I can’t find my way into her work as much as I want to.

Turner by a country mile. His use of colour is something else.

I am really interested in Emil Nolde and Expressionism in general right now.

Love Jacob Lawrence.

Salvador Dali

Charlie Mackesy

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva ( 1908 – 1992)

A Portuguese abstract painter.A leading member of the European abstract expressionism movement known as Art Informel. Her works feature complex interiors and city views using lines that explore space and perspective.

I first saw her work when visiting the Musee des Beaux Arts in Dijon & fell in love with it. It doesn't reproduce well on the internet & even worse on the attached photo but she's well worth a look.

I love El Greco, his work is so wonderfully weird and expressive, and totally ahead of its time. I was very moved by seeing a lot of his works in Toledo.

And the Brueghels..

I love photography- Thomas Mangelson is my favourite.

I enjoy Caravaggio’s work too.

The Andy Scott sculpture someone linked too upthread is fabulous!

I'm having a bit of an Eric Ravilious phase at the moment, but I love Rousseau and Turner.

I also love this man's work www.petermesser.com/gallery/current-work.html#! and am lucky enough to own two.

He combines pitch-perfect technique with an utterly bonkers view of the world.

Stanley Spencer and Eric Ravilious, also Walter Sickert.

Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. I could look at their paintings all day.

I like; Van Gogh, Vermeer, Tamara de Lempicka, Edward Hopper, Klimt and Lowry.

Hassan Massoudi, Arabic Calligraphy. I love calligraphy and his work is beautiful. I'm lucky enough to own a couple of pieces.

Lee Miller and Imogen Cunningham for photography, love both their work. Banksy and Dhali for paintings.

@Chouradanilova, have you been to the Towner in Eastbourne? They've got a whole room of Ravilious stuff.

Bruegel the Elder for his capturing of the colour of a Flemish winter sky, and the little hidden observations of life in his work.

So many great artists mentioned.
I like Velasquez and Rembrandt. Also Sonia Delaunay. And Andrew Wyeth. And Gwen John.