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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 15.7 W x 11.8 H x 0.8 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Oil Paint on Linen In July 2020, I came across a meme of a city engulfed in flames and a figure shouting ‘Anyone want to buy a painting?’. While the irony was not lost on me and I did laugh, something else was ignited that day. I started to make notes and gather images for this series of paintings, which I really enjoyed making. I believe that contemporary landscape painting is move vital now that it has ever been, not only is it entrenched in a long, storied history, but it also contends with the future - a future laden with global warming and environmental upheaval. The original starting point for these works has been images of wildfires and forest fires, found in abundance on social media and news network sites. While working on this current series, I was contacted in October 2021, by an Irish firefighter from Kilkenny, living in Australia, who viewed the progress of these works online. He is the crew leader of a team of fire fighters in Sydney. He shared many stories of what it was like working the front lines of the Sydney fires in 2020/21 along with video clips of actual footage from crew vehicles during that time. This chance interaction has greatly influenced this work.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:
Oil on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
15.7 W x 11.8 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Yes
Packaging:
Ships in a Box
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Ireland.
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Alan Raggett
Ireland
I’m far more interested in what’s left behind after the destruction of the paint surface, it’s all and everything that we must build on. The destruction of the paint surface causes me to change direction. I’m interested in the connection between what’s gone and what’s left behind. In conservation circles they speak about the agents of deterioration and areas of loss. These are phrases that interest me, there is a sense of history attached to them, they speak of a life lived by an object affected by time. Through the making and destruction of the paint surface a narrative is built. Its own history made. Its own life lived. The destruction of the paint surface causes scarring, this scarring builds texture. My practice lives in the space between familiar and unfamiliar . There are many failures, and each layer is built on a failure. There is something that happens in there between layers, it is like the slowing down of time, like a methodical move forward, like multi-tasking in slow motion. The constant scarring and destruction of numerous layered paint surfaces sometimes produces something beautiful. Sometimes, something beautiful is built on failures.
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