Tim Gustard (Lake District, contemporary)

"Cream and Sugar", a chiaroscuro still-life study of a Georgian silver lighthouse sugar caster reflecting a part of a facade, alongside an 18th Century blue-and-white porcelain bowl full of late summer strawberries, a floral sparrow-beaked cream jug and porcelain-handled spoon, acrylic on board, signed, 2014, in double card mount and moulded gilt frame under glass, 49 x 57 cm overall

[Tim Gustard was born in 1954 in Lincolnshire and graduated from Stoke City Art School in the 1970s with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art. In 1984 he was a finalist in the Young Artist of The Year Award at the London Mall Art Gallery and later exhibited in numerous prestigious institutions including The Royal Academy, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and the Royal Scottish Academy, as well as multiple international galleries. He is widely recognised for his highly detailed still-life paintings and has exhibited at Beckstones Art Gallery in Cumbria since the 1990s] [Artist's Resale Rights apply]