Inna Rogatchi’s WAITING FOR TURNER I artworks ( 2021) has been pre-selected by the Selection Committee of the Royal Society of Marine Artists ( RSMA) for participation in the Society’s Annual Exhibition 2021 at the Mall Galleries in London later in the Autumn 2021.
Royal Society of Marine Artists is widely recognised as the focal point for much of Britain’s finest contemporary marine art. It conducts its famous Annual Exhibitions at the Mall Galleries in London, highly prestigious point for Britain’s and international contemporary figurative art, and the home for the British Federation of British Artists.
Federation of British Artists ( FBA) is known widely as a major visual arts charity established in 1961 and the unique national resource of visual arts. FSA is an umbrella organisation for nine leading British art societies, with some of them with very long tradition, such as Royal Society of British Artists which was established in 1823, or Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, which was established in 1831.
2021 is a special year for both Federation of British Artists and Mall Galleries, both celebrating jubileums. Federation of British Artists celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2021, while Mall Galleries, its home and unique art establishment, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
To celebrate such double anniversaries, the Annual Exhibitions of all nine leading professional associations of British artists will be especially fascinating and memorable.
Inna Rogatchi’s highlights for her work pre-selected for the RSMA Annual Exhibition 2021 describes the artist’s thoughts and ideas behind it: “ WAITING FOR TURNER I atmospheric marine landscape is decisively resolved in an accord of two main domains: of blue and of white, to be found in both elements, water/sea and air/sky. Importantly, those both domains encompass many shades of the domineering colours and their status. There are as many as seven shades of blue, from deep Prussian blue to very light blue, and as many as four shades of white, from bright white to light greyish white.
Also decisively, the coexistence of all those shades within the two domains and also in between the space of blue and space of white is harmonious. In its unique dynamic, it is as if evolving each shade from another, creating a distinct impression and special atmosphere of a living watercolour in that magic landscape where seashore and sea horizon are almost identical in their profiles with the stretch of the mountains behind them. The harmony of all those three layers naturally meet the sky and dissolve into it happily, with an opening a window of light coming out with all its mercy and promise.
The whole scene is as if waiting for Turner to be reflected in the way only this unique, great British painter could make it.” ( Inna Rogatchi on her WAITING FOR TURNER I artwork).