One of the more talked-about live auction items up for bid at this weekend's Collective Spirits wine festival is a painting by Ian Greathead. Greathead is donating a 30x40˝ representational work of wine bottles from featured vintners at Collective Spirits 2010 in a setting of The Bascom and its campus.
Born in New Zealand where he was surrounded by lush-green rolling hills and pounding waves of the ocean, Greathead was inspired from an early age to create art. However, he first explored the world, living London, traveling throughout Europe and finally settling in Atlanta. A self-taught artist, Greathead worked as a freelance artist creating illustrations for Fortune 500 companies before devoting his time to his first love – oil painting.
His depiction of chosen moments in time, from listening to music around the piano while enjoying a glass of wine, to relaxing near the warm glow of a candle reflected in glass, create a reflective mood and invite you to share their intimacy. To lose yourself in an Ian Greathead canvas is to find a rare sense of peacefulness and quiet joy.
Greathead is represented locally by Summit One Gallery.
Estimated value: $4,800
Born in New Zealand where he was surrounded by lush-green rolling hills and pounding waves of the ocean, Greathead was inspired from an early age to create art. However, he first explored the world, living London, traveling throughout Europe and finally settling in Atlanta. A self-taught artist, Greathead worked as a freelance artist creating illustrations for Fortune 500 companies before devoting his time to his first love – oil painting.
His depiction of chosen moments in time, from listening to music around the piano while enjoying a glass of wine, to relaxing near the warm glow of a candle reflected in glass, create a reflective mood and invite you to share their intimacy. To lose yourself in an Ian Greathead canvas is to find a rare sense of peacefulness and quiet joy.
Greathead is represented locally by Summit One Gallery.
Estimated value: $4,800
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