artunderamonkey.co.uk: Mark Rothko reincarnated? Striking contemporary work from affordable art gallery.

Affordable online art gallery, Art Under a Monkey, announces exciting, colourful abstract and surrealist artworks from contemporary Irish artist Michele Grimson. 

Formally trained, Grimson has a painting style which channels a real love of intense colour and a concern for how colour can be used to create emotion within the viewer.

While Grimson’s highly distinctive work is entirely individual, much of her evocative abstract painting has been influenced by the works of the 20th century abstract expressionist artist, Mark Rothko. While Rothko sought to express his work through colour, form and space, cumulating in his famous signature rectangular fields of colour, he firmly believed that art should induce a strong emotional response. He famously said, “If you are only moved by colour relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom." 

In her series “Just Colours”, where Grimson explores the relationship between colours, shapes and textures - though with a softer, more velveteen approach than Rothko - she too seeks to evoke an emotional response. In “It Will Always Be You”, one of Grimson’s most beautiful and exciting pieces, she boldly paints her two favourite colours because it makes her feel nostalgic and she hopes to evoke a similar reaction within the viewer.

Grimson’s dreamlike surrealistic work also shows a fascination with the idea of telling an emotional story through the use of symbolic imagery, painting her works in a semi-realistic style and focusing on one character who dominates the surrealist landscape.

Art Under a Monkey’s aim is to provide exciting, original art at genuinely affordable prices. Adopting the London slang for £500 - a ‘monkey’ - the company caps its prices under £500, focusing on providing contemporary art with no compromise on quality.

Art Under a Monkey has strong environmental and ethical policies and has set up associations with charitable organisations including Crisis, the UK’s national charity supporting single, homeless men and women, to which it donates a percentage of each figurative or abstract artwork sold. The company also guarantees to ship in environmentally sustainable packaging and offers gift vouchers and a no-quibble money-back guarantee.

Both readers and journalists can receive a complimentary £35 gift voucher which can be used against any artwork purchase from the Art Under a Monkey website. Vouchers are valid for a year. To receive your free gift voucher please contactinfo@artunderamonkey.co.uk and a no obligation, complimentary voucher will be sent by first class post.

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Art Under a Monkey
Tel: 0870 626 5091
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