Japanese Shopping (P38) • 30″ by 40″ • £8,000
Kaffe’s Paintings in the US
Sharp Pastel Pots (P72) • Acrylic • 11″ by 14″ • Not for sale
Kaffe’s Sold Paintings
Sunflowers in Chinese Jug (P79) • 16″ by 12″ • SOLD
Matilijas in Blue Spotted Vase (P62) • Acrylic • 20″ by 16″ • SOLD
Contrast Carnival (P9) • Acrylic • 30″ by 40″ • SOLD
About Kaffe’s Painting Work
Kaffe is cunning with form. His ability to compose a picture makes it all look disarmingly easy (which those who know, know it is not), but it is in his handling of colour, the way he arranges objects, how he sees them, and his handling of the paint itself that conveys to us his own delight in what he is looking at. He can make the objects appear empowered with the joy of being, as if they have a wish to express themselves. Their seeming vitality can reach you even (or particularly?) when you stand back from his work. That vitality sings out at you. It is clear that Kaffe lives by and for colour. It would not be far-fetched to say that for Kaffe, colour is his very medium, whatever the substance he uses. In everything he creates he consciously sets out to make us aware of the delights of our physical world. In trying to convey his extraordinary perceptivity with regard to colour, I think of a Welsh countryman who, once asked to describe what a poet was, replied after thought: “…well a poet is someone who sees and sees and SEES..”. That definition would be equally appropriate for Kaffe the artist
ANNE JAMES Producer/Director, BBC and Channel Four