How i work and a bit of art history and a special offer
Before reading this just like to say i am dyslexic thank you
In my work I always push my boundaries I always aim to paint the best painting I have ever painted or even the best painting in the world. I may not achieve this but the painting might be quite good this is something that Lucian Freud used to say it works really well.
I am always experimenting and out of all the experiments I take the best ones and put them in one painting.
When I am not painting I am Reading about art and art history. I have decided to study the history of modern art from the year 1900 onwards to get a better picture of how it developed.
So briefly I have started with Paul Cezanne, Who went his separate ways from the impressionist to find a new way of painting and became known as the father of modern art. Photo below Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue 1886 Paul Cezanne
Georges Seurat born twenty years after Cezanne, he embraced the latest scientific research into colour especially The research that Eugene Chevreul on the division of light into its constituent colours. Seurat put this down on canvas and is now known as pointillism.
Photo below A Sunday afternoon on the island of La grand jette 1884-1886 Georges Seurat
Then came Henri Matisse Andre Derain and others in a movement called Les Fauves (the wild beasts) this movement fascinates me The movement only lasted about five years it was more a group of artist finding a new way to Paint rather than a movement Using colour to express their feelings but not necessarily the colour of the subject which resulted with the painting looking violent to the eye.
Photo below Portrait of Madame Matisse. The green line 1905
A lot of these artists in these movements pushed them selves striving for a new way of seeing.
I will go in more in-depth about this in another blog.
In other news I am having a bit of a sorting out in the studio. And I have decided to have a special sale of this beautiful painting. Title Lunddunden village oil on canvas 40x56cm Nicely framed This painting is one of the original paintings in the solo exhibition Now The North exhibition at the Salford city art gallery in 2015
I am selling this painting for £400
If you are interested please contact me.
So that’s it for now until my next blog