Inspirations

"The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?"

Franz Kline

"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people."

Edgar Degas

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."

Frank Auerbach

"It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see."

Alberto Giacometti

"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."

Anselm Keifer

"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move".

Georgia O'Keefe

"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house".

Edward Hopper

"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"

Alberto Giacometti

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Pablo Picasso

"I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived...and the picture that fights for its own life."

George Baslitz

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary".

Pablo Picasso

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

Edward Hopper

"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."

Lucian Freud

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Artist Profile

Early years and Study

Winning a painting competition was perhaps the deciding factor in determining the career of London born artist EJ Pritchard. She was aged six!

Full time art study further fueled her ambition, introducing her to varied influences, from late 19th and 20th Century masters (pioneers of now widely accepted techniques) ranging from the vigorous, expressive canvases of Frank Auerbach, to the powerful simplicity and stark contrasts of Edward Hopper. She graduated from the University of Northumbria with Honours.

Creative Career

Many creative ventures followed, including art teaching and community carnivals - to developing government creative industry strategies. Pursuing her passion lead her to open her own art gallery in Leeds. For several years she exhibited and sold original art works by over 100 up and coming artists from all over the UK and beyond.

Themes

Needing to concentrate more fully on her own painting, she struggled to define a 'signature' theme or style, hence painted everything from large abstract canvases to portrait commissions - from still life to urban architecture and the nude. Out of this, the cityscape became a recurring theme.

Cityscape

She was clearly drawn to the vibrancy and energy, the constant change and the possibilities offered - people, buildings, movement and transportation. Rapid changes in light and tempo - whether from rooftop skyline or a populated street scene. Attempting to capture something of its energy and drama - perhaps the city afforded more scope for her developing expressive style.

The work on the site is by no means exhaustive, and represents a selection of the cityscape themes. She continues to paint other themes. Please enquire if you would like to see other works.

Her work is collected wherever it is shown, currently in Europe and the US. Many pieces on this website are new and have never been previously exhibited.