SAMUEL JOHN PEPLOE

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) was a Scottish Artist of Post-impressionist flavour. His work was mainly of still-lifes and landscapes in Scotland and France. Each was carefully composed and meticulously executed. He was one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists (others were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter).

Peploe studied at the Royal Scottish Academy schools from 1893 to 1894, and then at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi in Paris. He was strongly influenced by French painting throughout his life. He was inspired by the bright sunlight and rustic realism of French artists. He tried that with use of bold colours and impasto strokes. He experimented with abstract, but not as intensively. His landscapes have neat composition, and meticulous execution. Peploe ’s still-life works show the influence of Manet. 

 

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ROBERT BEVAN

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group of London, and the Cumberland Market Group (English Post-Impressionist artists). His work shows impressions of Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. He also received encouragement from Renoir, particularly in his drawing of horses. His painting, Courtyard is described as the first exercises in the expressive use of pure colour in this century.

Robert Bevan used simpler colour schemes of large extensive fills. He avoids using the shadows to present the forms including the architecture. He was initially influenced by many of his contemporary artists, but eventually mastered own style. After a break of nearly twenty years, he began working on lithography, but now the works are more as tonal translations of colour paintings. 

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