Striking Ink Watercolour Nude Figure Study In Vintage French Frame

Striking pen & watercolour on paper by Stanley Joyce framed in a vintage French frame. Stunning moody muted greens and expressive mark making.

Painter, printmaker and educator Stanley Joyce.

Joyce was born in West Bromwich in the West Midlands Black Country, moving to Birmingham in the 1930s, where he studied art education at Birmingham University.

His art practice developed alongside his teaching, and from the 1950s, he trained at the Slade, the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and at Birmingham College of Art. Study at Atelier17 and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris developed Joyce’s practice as a printmaker, and introduced him to some of his long-term influences, notably Degas, Cezanne and the Swedish artist Anders Zorn. He was a member of the Birmingham Print Workshop, and elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. He exhibited widely, and is represented in collections in the UK, France and Italy.

Stanley’s broad practice includes work in oil, watercolour and printmaking, particularly etching and drypoint. 

Measures 33.5cm x 28cm x 4cm