Born on December 28, 1949, in Masnou, Spain, a coastal town in the Maresme district near Barcelona. Ribas spent hours on the beach tracing his first drawings in the sand. His mother dreamed of a life for him that would be less difficult than that of a fisherman. At nine years of age he began studying drawing and painting with Jose Maris Martinez. He entered the “Escuela Massana” in Barcelona when he was 13.  In 1975, at the age of 25, Ribas held his first one-man exhibition which immediately earned him international acclaim. Since, Ribas has continued to show his works in some of the most prestigious galleries in Europe and the United States. To date, five books have been published about his paintings.

Ribas is one of the best known luministas of contemporary Spanish art. His profound knowledge of the secrets of light, shade and opaqueness are present throughout his work. His female forms are classics – brilliantly executed and exquisitely drawn. His palette contains a wide range of colors which give his paintings their great beauty.

The son of fishermen parents, Ribas learned the vicissitudes of a life dependent upon the sea at an early age. In spite of this, he always felt an affinity for the beach as it represented a point of departure for the horizon that marked the beginning of an adventure across the waters.

As a young artist, Ribas chose the sea, with its continuous harmonic movement as another favorite theme, which he translates to his canvas with an emotional precision few have mastered.

For Ribas, time is not important. He is an artist who prefers to work slowly – continuously defying his vision in a never-ending search for aesthetic. Although his successful career already spans more than twenty years, Ribas does not produce the quantity of paintings that others may, but each canvas is highly desired by galleries and collectors alike. Ribas is not a prolific painter.  His disciplined manner of painting requires years of planning for an exhibition.

Findlay Galleries proudly presents an exhibition of new works by the renowned French post-impressionist André Hambourg. The exhibition also features works by important Normandy painters, from Camille Pissarro and Eugene Boudin, to more recent painters of the group, such as Gaston Sébire and Isabelle de Ganay.

During their lifetime, few artists attain the international acclaim that has been accorded to André Hambourg. His paintings hang in more than fifty museums, and his name is synonymous with the highest standards of French art. Hambourg is that rare creative talent, a complete artist. Apart from his oils, pastels, watercolors and drawings, he has developed an enviable reputation in lithography, engravings, ceramics, mural decorations and illustrations. Year after year, his one-man shows in Paris, Honfleur, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Brussels, London, North Africa and the United States added to his fame and stature in the art world.

For a more comprehensive text about André Hambourg and The School of Normandy painters, please click to view the online catalogue.

Findlay Galleries proudly presents an exhibition of new works from the Danish contemporary artist Henrik Simonsen. Simonsen continues his exploration of time, memory, and the human experience as understood through his unique lens and remarkable talent conveyed through his exploration of highly detailed and often vividly colored plants and trees.

Henrik’s work is executed entirely freehand. Although his work sometimes gives the appearance of stenciling, this is merely the result of a master draftsman who is as talented with a brush as with a pencil. Stencils would be stifling and deadening. For Simonsen, each work is an organic creation, a mystery unfolding, the end result a revelation even to the artist himself.

“Whether it is a thicket in the proximity of his childhood home or a patch of wild grass on a far-away continent, Henrik Simonsen finds the often overlooked and unremarkable fragments of nature and portrays it in all its splendour.” – Henrik Riis, Eyestorm, 2023

Belynda Henry

Belynda Henry was born in New South Wales, Australia, and studied sculpture and painting at Sydney College of the Arts. She first gained recognition as a leading landscape painter in Australia after being named a finalist for the Wynne Prize. Henry is now a multiple finalist of both the Wynne and Archibald Prizes, among other prestigious awards and more than 30 solo exhibitions. Her work has been shown alongside some of Australia’s most prominent and influential artists, including Fred Williams, Arthur Boyd, Jeffrey Smart, and Brett Whiteley. 

Henry lives and works deep within a long, lush valley with wild escarpments north of Sydney. Here, she is embedded in the landscape and exposed to its ways, witnessing the transitions of ever-changing light, texture, and soundscape. She absorbs all of this, along with her infinite fascination with the land, into her paintings. Henry’s works bring forth the internal meditative quality evoked by the landscape, illuminating these impressions in wondrous, imaginative paintings. 

Henry often sequesters herself for an intense period to bring together her rich body of fieldwork. In her paintings, she references the deep structure, shifting shapes and pure colors of the landscape through a meditative state rather than a literal one. Her process isn’t limited to painting – photographing the landscape, recording sounds, making small sketches, and painting on paper with watercolors, gouache and pastels are also part of her daily studio practice. After experiencing the landscape during daylight, she returns to her studio with sketches, notes, and an openness to imagery, allowing the works to form at night. Henry says her process allows her works to “imagine themselves, like a dream sequence,” taking us to the precipice of total abstraction yet masterfully holding the viewer with spare pieces of evidence caught within the work, innately fusing the classic and traditional techniques with the modern colors and textures that are her signature.

Henry’s work has been acquired by private collections in the United States, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan, New Zealand, Ireland, Hong Kong, Greece, France, and England. Her work appeared in the acclaimed Thames & Hudson tome on Australian art, A Painted Landscape. Findlay Galleries is proud to present the works of contemporary Australian painter Belynda Henry and to welcome her to our stable of contemporary artists.

Judy Dolnick

Born in Chicago in 1934, New York based painter Judy Dolnick has been creating colorful and vivid abstract paintings since the 1950s. She received her BA from Stanford University in 1955 and attended The Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 1957. Along with her husband, the painter Robert Natkin, and fellow artists Gerald van de Wiele and Ann Mattingly, Dolnick opened the Wells Street Gallery in Chicago to address the lack of exhibition opportunities for abstract expressionists. Amongst the many artists successfully shown at Wells Street Gallery were the photographer Aaron Siskind and the sculptor John Chamberlain.

In 1959, Dolnick and Natkin moved to New York City. In the late 1960s, she exhibited at the Poindexter Gallery, followed by exhibitions at Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, Outlet Gallery, and the Edward Hopper House Museum. Dolnick’s work is part of many permanent collections, including The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Mint Museum of Art, and The Palmer Museum of Art.

Dolnick’s art is influenced by various movements ranging from expressionism to abstraction. Her paintings pay homage to other masters, such as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Redon, Kandinsky and Guston. Dolnick’s works have energy and depth; they are odes to nature and space, expressed through light (color) and brought home by the rhythm of her brushwork. Rhythm and gesture play a critical role in Dolnick’s artistic process, which she has continued to develop for several decades; her aesthetic accomplishments include a vision in which her forms are solid and significant yet detached from the weight of gravity.

Today, Dolnick continues to paint almost daily in her Connecticut and New York studios, creating her works in a light and flower-filled room. Findlay Galleries is pleased to present this collection of works in varying media, from acrylic on canvas to watercolor on paper, highlighting the depth and richness of Dolnick’s oeuvre just days after the artist’s 90th birthday.

“I love the great art of the past and present. Painting has always been a most significant part of my life. I want my work to have an unabashed sensual beauty as well as a rigorous plastic order. I hope my work conveys a MAGIC—that which makes art alive—beyond its immediate attractiveness.”

Tadashi Asoma (1923–2017) was a distinguished Japanese-American artist renowned for serene compositions that are both Eastern and Western in design and palette. Born in Tokyo, Asoma’s early exposure to Japanese calligraphy and traditional painting techniques laid the foundation for his later exploration of Western abstract art.

In 1958, Asoma moved to Paris to study art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Soon thereafter, he moved to New York and studied at the Art Students League.

Asoma’s oeuvre is characterized by a dynamic fusion of Eastern and Western artistic sensibilities. His paintings exhibit a masterful interplay of form and color, revealing a deeply emotive and spiritual dimension. His use of bold brushstrokes and vivid hues transcends mere abstraction, inviting viewers to engage with the visceral and intuitive aspects of his creations.

Asoma’s early and mid-career work reflects his interest in figurative compositions, while his later work focuses more on landscape. Living in Garrison, a small town outside New York City, Asoma was impressed by the area’s fall foliage when the trees turned vivid reds, oranges, and yellows. These striking Hudson River landscapes appear in some of Asoma’s most well-recognized paintings and attest to his skill as a master colorist.

Tadashi Asoma’s work is in prestigious private collections and museums worldwide, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; and Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Tadashi Asoma was represented by the Findlay Family of galleries for decades throughout his life, and we are pleased to continue to support his legacy.