Derek Balmer Hon D Art, Hon RA, PRWA, Pro-Chancellor
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Born 1934, London. Derek has had numerous solo and group exhibitions dating
back to 1958.
While exploring the Roman district of Trastevere, Balmer was struck by the sense
of long and profoundly layered human history embodied in the streets and buildings – churches
particularly- of that ancient quarter.
These associations had a profound effect on him and continue to inform his works,
a series of paintings in which the overlapping architecture – catacombs,
vaults and tombs and the remains of paintings and decorations, form a metaphor
for the overlapping layers of human and sacred history.
Derek Balmer
Derellect houses, Greece
Oil on canvas
DB010
Derek Balmer
Bedouin
Oil on canvas
DB009
Derek Balmer
Lowender farm
Oil on canvas
DB008
Derek Balmer
Mallorca Red
Oil on canvas
DB007
Derek Balmer
Boat yard Cornwall
23x17
"
Oil on canvas
DB006
Derek Balmer
Guadalquiver, Spain
21x17
"
Oil on canvas
DB005 £2750
Derek Balmer
Italian Garden
27x23"
Oil on canvas
DB004 £3000
Derek Balmer
Catalan Harvest
33x23"
Oil on canvas
DB003 £4250
Derek Balmer
Palermo
24x18"
Oil on canvas
DB002
Derek Balmer
Harvest
30x26
"
Oil on canvas
Derek Balmer
West Bay Harvest
39x27"
Oil on canvas
Derek Balmer
Mallorca Red II
29x23"
Oil on canvas
Derek Balmer
Tarquinia
Oil on canvas
Derek Balmer
Winter Garden
19x15ins
Oil on canvas
Derek Balmer
Italian Journey
21x17ins
Oil on canvas
Derek Balmer
Mallorca Red II
29x23ins
Oil on canvas
Derek Balmer
Lucca
35x27ins
Oil on canvas
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