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Baie des Anges Painting

Stephen Abela

Canada

Painting, Acrylic on Paper

Size: 28 W x 22 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This is based on an old photograph of post war France feels very distant from today, I like to try and capture some of that old world charm. If nothing else it's a moment of romance and nostalgia to escape to.

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Acrylic on Paper

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28 W x 22 H x 0.1 D in

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I paint in a style for a period of a four to six weeks or so untill I get bored and pick up another style, I tend alternate between tighter realist styles and looser more abstract styles, subject matter changes but there are definite reocurring themes. Beaches, pools, bathers, scenes from classic films, history... forming a backdrop to my own meditation on the subject. Within that space I focus on expressions of social dynamics. In this sense I feel I am more of a traditionalist as I attempt to relate back to painting history and pull away from the other media -film and photo- which ironically inform and are sometimes the starting point of my work. On a formal level I am currently focused on extending and strengthening my colour palette, for example in many of the scenes I will incorporate primary and complementary colour dynamics - cool versus warm– to create spatial tension the way Richard Diebenkorn was able to so successfully; a large ocean/pool blue or tree green punctuated by a small area of skin tone or a bright red or yellow umbrella or swimming suit. I find in much of my painting I cannot easily separate nostalgia for a bygone era, the sensual from more specific contemporary iconography of human interaction. I think this makes the subject-matter multi-layered and keeps me interested in making work. Hopefully it makes it more interesting to the viewer as well.

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