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Birdland Painting
Spain
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 51.2 W x 35 H x 0.1 D in
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About The Artwork
This was a real labour of love, and I worked on it for FAR longer than I usually devote to a single work. I found it constantly led me somewhere new, and so, after three or four false finishes, I simply left it set up on the easel and came back to it whenever I felt the urge. A flock of bee-eaters appear in our valley every spring, and the painting, which began as an exercise in random, intuitive mark making, started to take on their colours. Initially I was painting on an outdoor easel, and as the bee-eaters were flying over my head, I got lost in the idea of a composite style image that could work in all orientations, with multiple bird figures in varying degrees of abstraction, some overlapping, some breaking into patterns. There are more than twenty (some far more literal than others) bird figures, and one unfortunate fish in the final piece. At least I think there are, I lost track at some point in the process. It was painted mounted on rough studio stretchers and once dry finished with two coats of semi gloss varnish for UV protection and to guarantee beautiful, long-lasting colours. It has been stored flat, wrapped in plastic and will be despatched rolled, ready for framing. Dimensions correspond to the painted surface, the actual canvas is approximately 2.5 inches wider at each edge, stretcher edges were finished in black.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:51.2 W x 35 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Ships From:Spain.
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Spain
I'm Stuart Hyde, painter and fine art photographer, born in the UK's West Midlands in 1960, but now lucky enough to live and work in the Altiplano badlands of Granada province in Southern Spain. In addition to formal training, I studied with both the renowned British Post War artist Paul Rudall, 'Modern' to the core, and the markedly more traditional but no less successful English landscape painter W.R. Jennings. Even now, years later, my work still seems to veer between their respective, often polarising influences. Maybe more importantly, I still have the same daily joy in painting that these vastly different painters both had, and instilled in me. I consider myself primarily a painter/photographer of my environment, but one who occasionally flips out on the corner to find myself in a field of photographic or painted abstraction. It might be considered a somewhat schizophrenic approach, but I've learned to accept it and embrace the aberrations as they appear. Representative or abstracted, the outer landscape or an inner landscape, both my painted and photographic work is as concerned with subliminal impressions and memory, real or imagined, as it is with sketches and scribbled notes made painting plein air. Photos are interpretive, carefully and consciously avoiding any nods to documentation, while paintings use texture, form, and conscious line balanced against the randomness of intuitive mark making, and the emotional, expressive response to evolving surface and space.
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