"We can now look at your patient stitches, one after the other, tying secrets to poetry and colour to shape." So wrote Benedetta Barzini to Marian Fanny Christian
PRINTS For Sale:
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Drawings
The Fantasia Series
Created using inks with occasional colouring in pastel
or coloured pencil on paper. Paper size 40" x 30" except "Love Crows Where My Rosemary Grows" 16" x 16" To request a catalogue of Limited Edition Prints
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Abstract
Created using inks with occasional addition of pastel
or coloured pencil on paper. To request a catalogue of Limited Edition Prints
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Sketches
Ink on paper To request a catalogue of Limited Edition Prints
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New Work
Created entirely in inks Paper size all approx 30" x 20"
with the exception of "The Sun" which is 12" x 16" and F1 - F19 which are all A4 To request a catalogue of Limited Edition Prints
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Mandalas
All hand drawn in ink 12" x 12"
with the exception of "Metamorphosis"
30" x 30" To request a catalogue of Limited Edition Prints
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Collaborations
The nude is drawn in sanguine pencil by
my husband Anthony Christian and I work over it
in inks creating a beautiful and unique collaboration. To request a catalogue of Limited Edition Prints
please contact the gallery and it will be sent to you by email the same day.
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 Rhonda |
 Truffle |
 Joseph |
 Love Crows |
 B'ino Bird |
 The Cat in the Plait |
 Three Angels |
 Tusca |
 The First Angel |
 The Dolphin and the Ice Angel |
 Wazo Bird |
 Yoyo Bird |
 Wedding Bouquet |
 Japan |
 Shunga |
 Another Sun |
 Dragon |
 Large Beast of Burden |
 Gladiator |
 The Mask |
 Fan's Fan |
 Balance of Nature |
 Leaf Studies |
 Pears |
 Sketch 1 |
 Sketch 2 |
 Sketch 3 |
 Sketch 4 |
 Sketch 5 |
 Sketch 6 |
 Sketch 7 |
 Sketch 8 |
 Facing Off |
 Sketch 9 |
 Sketch 10 |
 Kookie Girl |
 Floral Symphony No.1 |
 Floral Symphony No.2 |
 Floral Symphony No.3 |
 Bold and Brave and Beautiful |
 Joy |
 The Artist |
 Self Portrait |
 Celebration |
 Dyptich 1 |
 Dyptich 2 |
 Moon River |
 The Sun |
 F1 |
 F2 |
 F3 |
 F4 |
 F5 |
 F6 |
 F7 |
 F8 |
 F9 |
 F10 |
 F11 |
 F12 |
 F13 |
 F14 |
 F15 |
 F16 |
 F17 |
 F18 |
 F19 |
 F20 |
 F21 |
 Window of the Soul |
 All the Love in the World |
 Lottery of Life |
 Spinning a Rainbow |
 Brave New World |
 Metamorphosis |
 Pearls of Wisdom |
 Spiritual Warrior |
 Warm Feelings |
 Love |
 Port in a Storm |
 Clown |
 Beachcomber |
 Beautiful in Lace |
 Exotic Dancer |
 Fishing For Compliments |
 Carnival |
 Head Over Heels |
 Meditation |
 Cheeky Girl |
 Searching |
 Veiled Beauty |
 Butterfly |
 Sisters |
“I started drawing on July 10th 1999 in India” Marian Fannon Christian (known as Fanny) told me “.....I had never studied art or drawn a thing in my life before that. Just got the urge one day and when Anthony (Christian) saw the results, he encouraged me to carry on and so it went.......”
What the artist Anthony Christian saw was a sense of form and a distinctive approach to the medium. One notices immediately a decorative skill, a facility for filigree detail, and a warm yet subtle sense of colour. If this were all Marian had to offer hers would be a very pleasant if minor talent, but look closer and you find a strong compositional sense and what I can only describe as a mystical insight. I was first attracted to Marian’s Mandala drawings because, while holding fast to the profound spiritual qualities of the traditional Mandala, her versions invested the old form with new life, a new-minted freshness, a vibrancy of colour. Her animal drawings have a similar appeal. Starting with the original beast, be it elephant, rhino, cockerel or some other creature, Marian launches into a surreal fantasia of colour and decorative detail. And yet somehow, almost miraculously, she remains true to the essence of the creature she sets out with. Recently she has been experimenting with floral and semi-abstract patterns. These are among her finest pieces because they retain and build upon the two pillars of her art, a strong sense of form and a joyous exuberance of colour and detail.
The collaborative work with Anthony Christian adds yet another dimension to her art. The harmony of these pieces and their distinct quality are such they appear to be the work of another major artist, not the work of two. Should he/she be called Anthony Fannon or Marian Christian? You decide. REGGIE OLIVER
A NOTE FROM THE ARTIST
As the hand of Leonardo da Vinci or Rubens can be seen in my husband Anthony Christian’s classically inspired works, so elements of Bellmer and Haeckel, might occasionally be seen in mine even though I didn't discover those artists until I had been drawing for several years. My drawings are large - usually 40" x 30"- and very intricately detailed. They are created in inks with the the occasional addition of watercolour pencils or pastel. Each work of art takes a minimum of 210 hours of drawing so I can only produce one a month. I most often don't know what is going to come out until I pick up the pens and start drawing. I always know that if I simply sit at my desk and don't let my head get in the way , the drawing will make itself. My latest drawings are more surreal/abstract . They have been described as "Organic Surrealism" and I think that describes them (and me - an earthy Taurean with more than a touch of eccentricity!) very well.I intend to work more like this in the future. My art has been exhibited in England, Ireland, The Netherlands, New York, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and India.
Occasionally during our years together, Anthony and I have created a small number of collaborations. Although the response was extremely enthusiastic, it didn’t occur to us that we might ever work together on a regular basis, but that is exactly what has transpired.In July of 2007 , I had an inspiration. How wonderful it would be, if I could lay my hands on some of Anthony's great drawings of the nude, and work over them in my own very different style using ink. I asked him if he would consider making some new sanguine drawings for me to work on. His model was called and sittings were arranged for weekends from the following week, and the project got off the ground. Anthony’s part of the work takes a full day, sometimes two, mine takes approximately a week. But as soon as we saw the results of the very first drawing we knew we were creating something unique , beautiful and artistically rewarding. The series is simply called “Collaborations”.
I hope you enjoy what you see here. Best wishes, Fanny
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