Featured landscape oil help

hi folks

something i picked up from my house clearance friend, all the info seems to be there but not finding an awful lot of concrete info

seems a pretty solid piece

fitted into the ' i like it ' category

also fitted into the ' i like it for that' category

any thoughts or info appreciated

 

Very nice painting. Olive has a nice view from her house.

 

She seems to be a Devon artist, so a neighbour of yours.

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Olive-Collett/AE2EF88597AC4949

 

A label on the back of one here gives an address in Banstead, Surrey. She also has ARCA after her name, for Associate of the Royal College of Art.

https://mallams.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-101---olive-collett-20th-century-school-old/?lot=173005&sd=1

The address leads to this, according to which her maiden name was Olive Maude Norris, and she married Harry Collett in Bromley in 1929:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Collett-2485

According to her own wikitree page she was born 7 Aug 1901 in Bromley ; died 1974 in Sutton, Surrey.

 

Very nice. Deserves a better frame.

 

The frame isn't horrible, but it's in want of gilding. The fabric inset was a very 60s thing, which makes sense. The off white at least doesn't interfere with the picture.

 

frames fine, it mirrors the clouds

 

yep totally agree squire, and when there isn't a problem...........

 

The frame is perfect, of period and as unpretentious as the artist's title 'The fields opposite'.

Debora

 

That frame works for the painting . . . open, light & simple - like the clouds in the piece. I'm in the habit of leaving works in the frame I find them in unless the pairing is a real trainwreck.

 

Interesting article about the debate over ornate, gilded frames and plain, simple frames.

https://www.christies.com/en/storie...-not-to-gild-c697b68a137646d0a67bbab5d18739ac

Debora