Title: Seen Through Shades
Medium : Oil On Canvas
Size : 122cms x 87cms
Dated : 1994
Signature : signed verso and dated 1994
Exhibitions : Royal Academy, London ( Summer Exhibition 1995)
Provenance :
Private Collection London
Michael BUHLER (1940-2009)
Michael Buhler was a versatile artist and teacher whose diverse interests nourished his output in various media. Unlike painters and sculptors content with one style and subjects that remain unchanged over decades, a Buhler exhibition frequently included surprises. His 2002 solo show Street Life and Beyond at the Chappel Galleries, near Colchester, gave an idea of his range. Colourful, neon-lit paintings of young urban life and others of tourism were hung alongside Buhler's distinctive white multi-layered boxes, the artist's preoccupations including unidentified flying objects and endangered species.
Buhler was one of those artists who benefited from, but had to cope with, having a distinguished painter father, in his case the Royal Academician Robert Buhler. Michael was born in 1940, the son of Robert and his first wife, Evelyn. Robert would marry again and eventually Michael had, as well as two half-brothers, Adam and William Buhler, a half-sister, Frances Miller.
After Bryanston School, from 1960-63, Michael attended the Royal College of Art, where he had distinguished and very different teachers: Carel Weight, Ceri Richards, Ruskin Spear, and Colin Hayes, who would eventually write a monograph on Michael's father. Because of the uncertainty of a painter's life, Robert was at first apprehensive about Michael's desire to be an artist, but was latterly encouraging.
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