"Summer Garden" Limited Edition Serigraph by Patrick Livingstone

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This piece is a rare, signed and numbered limited-edition color serigraph titled "Summer Garden" by the Irish artist Patrick Livingstone.
… Read more This piece is a rare, signed and numbered limited-edition color serigraph titled "Summer Garden" by the Irish artist Patrick Livingstone.
Livingstone is well-known for his sun-drenched, impressionistic style that frequently depicts peaceful garden settings, floral arrangements, and coastal tablescapes.
Serigraph on paper hand-numbered 222 out of a limited edition of 275 prints, which is hand-inscribed alongside the artist's signature in pencil along the lower border.
The artwork beautifully captures a bright, leisurely afternoon scene using vibrant watercolor tones.
A classic blue-and-white gingham checkered tablecloth holds scattered fresh cherries or red berries.
A wide-brimmed straw summer sunhat adorned with red flowers rests next to a woven wicker handle basket overfilled with matching blooms.
A large white ceramic garden pitcher overflowing with lush green foliage balances out a white-painted wicker garden armchair.
Light brown wood frame.
Patrick Livingstone was born in Lurgan, Ireland, in 1956. He spent his childhood summers in Donegal, in his grandparents' thatched cottage a stone's throw from the Atlantic — a grandfather who lobster-fished those waters, and a coastline that never left him.
He sold his first painting at twelve and spent the money on oil paints.Arriving in London at nineteen, Livingstone found the art schools of the era interested only in abstraction. He taught himself instead — spending years with his face inches from the canvases of the old masters in the National Gallery and the Tate, studying how they built light from nothing. Security guards knew him by name.
That self-directed apprenticeship led to recognition by Christie's Contemporary Art and London Contemporary Art, who published over sixty of his watercolours as limited edition prints — long since sold out. His first major commission was a series of marine paintings for the boardroom of Visa's European Headquarters in Chester, England.
Over fifty years he has moved fluidly between watercolour, bronze sculpture, and hyper-surrealism — exhibiting at Blackman Harvey, the Medici Gallery Mayfair, the Sir John Campbell Gallery Chelsea, and represented in America by Quidley and Company of Boston and Nantucket. Thirty years ago he moved to southwest France, where he lives and works in an old stone house among the vines near Bordeaux.
In 2006, a Sarasota art dealer was arrested for attempting to sell a forged Livingstone to an elderly collector. When told about the forgery, Livingstone's response was characteristically direct:
‍"There are not many marine artists alive today that can duplicate my work. If they're good enough to duplicate my work, they're good enough to have a fine career as a marine artist in their own right. So why would they?
He is currently at work on Livingstone Editions — a series of ultra-high-end sculptural book editions in hand-carved leather, bronze, and enamel, returning the greatest texts in human history to the physical grandeur they were always meant to have.
HIS PHILOSOPHY
‍"I let myself play like a child in my work — a child with a strange mixture of naivety and knowing. There is truth and beauty in ambiguity. Please feel free to enjoy any aspect of my work that pleases you, safe in the knowledge that as far as the artist is concerned, there is no right or wrong way to do it." See less