Felicity Rowbotham | The Blue Figure Painting

Felicity Rowbotham
The Blue Figure
Original oil painting

Felicity Rowbotham is a London-based artist whose figurative oil paintings engage with the human form in states of reflection, movement, and psychological presence. The Blue Figure takes its title from the palette — blue being the colour of depth, of melancholy, of the interior life that the figurative tradition has always used blue to signal — and applies it to a figure whose identity is dissolved by the colour, who becomes universal rather than particular.

The oil painting medium gives the work the material richness and luminosity that Rowbotham's figurative subjects demand — the paint building the figure from within, the blue palette giving the work an atmospheric presence that extends beyond the figure into the surrounding space. For collectors in Berkshire, Surrey, and London seeking a significant original oil figure painting, The Blue Figure is one of Rowbotham's most formally accomplished works. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot.

Original oil painting
Certificate of Authenticity