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Embalse de Portillo Just After Dawn Painting
Spain
Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 21.3 W x 14.2 H x 0.1 D in
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About The Artwork
Painted in the studio using a number of plein air sketches made at different times of the day using watercolour and charcoal. For the final piece I used a heavy, superior quality paper, and chose a combination of acrylics, metallics, glazes and various mark-making tools in my attempt to create a sense of the magnificent light at the liminal hour I was trying to convey. I hesitate to use the word 'Turneresque', as I was striving for a very different set of outcomes, but I was very much thinking of Turners approach to the landscape when painting this, and I took some of the same liberties. I consciously changed the size, shape and relative placement of many of the forms I was seeing, and was much more concerned with the 'effect' and emotional impact of the scene, rather than any attempt at representation. I hope, even with this 'pictorial' approach, that I've gone some way in communicating a 'sense of place' and the incredible atmosphere I experienced while doing the sketches. The surface is highly textured, some of the colour almost iridescent when catching the light, and the painting has been finished with two coats of semi gloss varnish to ensure UV protection and archival colour. I personally would hang it under none reflective glass, with a slim, dark wood frame, incorporating a broad (5/6 inch) passe partout in off white .
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:21.3 W x 14.2 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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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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