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Enver Larney was born in Cape Town South Africa. For the last twenty five years he has captured scenes around the world in oils on canvas. An impressionist in the traditional manner, Larney's medium format works are achieved in one sitting and in the open. His collective of hundreds of canvases completed this way, is a collectors dream and extremely rare, if not unprecedented in the modern era. After more than fifty one man shows globally since 1972, his works appear in many collections and Institutions such as, the Chase Manhattan Bank New York USA and the Musee d'Affiche in Paris, as well as countless private collections worldwide.
Larney has decided to make prints of his works available in order that these images be viewed and appreciated by a wider audience. These last few years he has traveled to Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey, central Africa and Indonesia. At present he is painting in Lazio Italy. Previous painting expeditions have had him travel from the wilds of Tasmania to Washington State, California and the Sonoras in the United States of America. His works are created in the traditional way, capturing sunlight as medium and reminiscent of Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, van Gogh, and those early impressionists who were able to achieve this level of immediacy with oils. In this regard, Larney has very few contemporaries. Recently he painted in Provence France, where he visited St. Paul de Mausole, the clinic where Vincent recovered at St. Remy, after his breakdown, due to Paul Gauguin's controversial departure from Arles. The more than twenty canvases that he completed here, spoke of a distant time when the challenges of en plein air painting were met in this honest and direct way. Not since Vincent's death however, had a singular painter achieved this in Provence. It was Larney's private tribute to a fellow artist whom he refers to as, ' An inspirational guiding light'.
