Joan MullinsPainter · Nantwich, Cheshire

Imaginative figures

Watercolours of the imagination · 7 paintings

Ink drawing in black and grey of three faces among flowing hair, hands and flowers.
Three Heads design in Ink shown at its real size on a wall

Shown in a typical mount and frame, which are not included. The painting itself is 53 × 29 cm. Above a cabinet about 90 cm wide. The room is an illustration.

Three Heads design in Ink

Medium
Ink and wash on paper
Size
53 × 29 cm
Year
2015
Price
£200
Catalogue no.
14

Three heads in a design which includes hands, flowers and movement. All detail imagined or remembered.

Black and white ink and wash drawing of a hollow, stylised figure crouching beside a waterfall.
Figure by waterfall shown at its real size on a wall

Shown in a typical mount and frame, which are not included. The painting itself is 40 × 31 cm. Above a cabinet about 90 cm wide. The room is an illustration.

Figure by waterfall

Medium
Ink and wash on paper
Size
40 × 31 cm
Year
1980s
Price
£190
Catalogue no.
40

A figure by a waterfall, bending across towards her leg. She is hollow in design, linking in with the designs and shapes around her.

Ink and watercolour painting of a pink lily in a teal vase beside chess pieces on a chequered board, with four women talking behind a curtain.
The Chess Game shown at its real size on a wall

Shown in a typical mount and frame, which are not included. The painting itself is 46 × 36 cm. Above a cabinet about 90 cm wide. The room is an illustration.

The Chess Game

Medium
Ink and watercolour on paper
Size
46 × 36 cm
Year
1995
Price
£300
Catalogue no.
77

The strong colour and shape of the lily and its vase dominate the foreground, while in the background four women talk while a breeze moves the curtain.

Watercolour of a pale figure on a beach, her flowing robe shaped like a ship's prow, beside yellow lilies and figures emerging from the pages of an old book.
Out of a Book shown at its real size on a wall

Shown in a typical mount and frame, which are not included. The painting itself is 46 × 37 cm. Above a cabinet about 90 cm wide. The room is an illustration.

Out of a Book

Medium
Watercolour on paper
Size
46 × 37 cm
Year
1990s
Price
£300
Catalogue no.
81

A figure stands on a beach, her clothing forming the shape of a ship's prow; behind her, figures seem to appear from out of the book's pages.

Watercolour in lilac and grey of a curled figure surrounded by flowing shell-like and bone-like forms and fish.
Figure from the Sea shown at its real size on a wall

Shown in a typical mount and frame, which are not included. The painting itself is 52 × 42 cm. Above a cabinet about 90 cm wide. The room is an illustration.

Figure from the Sea

Medium
Watercolour on paper
Size
52 × 42 cm
Year
1998
Price
£350
Catalogue no.
82

I was interested in the link between shell structures and bone structures, with all life beginning in the sea.

Watercolour in magenta and white of a faint figure emerging from swirling water.

The figure in the sea

Medium
Watercolour on paper
Year
1984
Price
Not for sale
Catalogue no.
173