(1937 – 2015), United Kingdom

Sargy Mann Biography

Sargy Mann (29 May 1937–5 April 2015) was one of the most extraordinary British artists of his generation. Both a landscape and figurative painter, his diverse works are recognisable by their bright colour palette and focus on light. Although deeply influenced by Cézanne and Bonnard, his paintings attain a remarkable originality, demonstrating painting after painting that an impressionist style, supposedly superseded by the forward thrust of modernity and postmodernity, retained great validity. Mann was always interested, both from an artistic and scientific perspective, in the perception of light and colour as a subjective phenomenon. His paintings capture this desire to represent an experience of light and space in two-dimensional form.

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'I am not a painter of ideas, I am a painter of direct visual experience.'

Later in life, his sight began to progressively worsen. Undeterred, Mann continued to find new ways of seeing and interpreting his experience of light and space. During this period of his life he sought out brighter light qualities in India and Spain, his 'Cadaques' paintings were the first he made after losing his sight completely in 2005. Using dictaphones, blue tac and touch to aid his artistic practices, Mann continued to paint, translating touch and memory into artworks. As someone who had always been preoccupied with the subjectivity of sight, he was now unbound, able to elevate his lifetime of looking to a new experience.

'The paradox was that now that I had no perceptual experience of light or colour, I was free to use colour completely intuitively in order to express whatever experience I did have.'

Text courtesy Cadogan Gallery.

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Urbino by Sargy Mann contemporary artwork painting
Sargy Mann Urbino, 1975 Oil on board
51 x 61 cm
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Cristina's Garden by Sargy Mann contemporary artwork painting
Sargy Mann Cristina's Garden, 1970s Oil on canvas
66 x 81 cm
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Pool & Sea, Seatown Beach by Sargy Mann contemporary artwork painting
Sargy Mann Pool & Sea, Seatown Beach Oil on board
35.5 x 40.5 cm
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Rosa's House, Tuscany by Sargy Mann contemporary artwork painting
Sargy Mann Rosa's House, Tuscany Oil on board
35.5 x 46 cm
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Rooftop Sunset, Sept '71 by Sargy Mann contemporary artwork painting
Sargy Mann Rooftop Sunset, Sept '71 Oil on board
68.5 x 81 cm
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