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This painting is one of a series of paintings inspired by my stay in the Dolomite mountains in north east Italy. Most of the work in this series is so far very expressionist verging towards the abstract but this painting asserted itself in the process of its making - in that the more figurative image became dominant. One of the attractions of the Dolomite mountains is that they throw up these massive flat walls of rock but then one gets a glimpse through a valley and in this painting I aim to express the feeling of having that huge rock face in your face as it were, but with light and views of distant mountains breaking through. The title of the painting is based on an emotion expressed in a book by Nan Shepherd - "The Living Mountain". It is about the history and life of the rock that has grown and diminished through weathering over millenia.
Acrylic on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
39.4 W x 31.5 H x 1.2 D in
Not Framed
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I was born in Bristol, England in 1951. I studied art in Bristol and Birmingham, graduating in 1978. I then lived in London for 25 years where I ran a dual career as a painter and as a manager of environmental projects. In 2006 I moved to Piemonte in northern Italy where I live in a converted farmhouse, working in my studio which was formerly the hayloft. My work is about my response to the colour, space and light in the landscape. My aim is to paint the power and existence of the landscape, not the view of it. I am inspired by the dominance of nature over man, but also the marks the man makes in the landscape. I am equally interested in the detail of nature and am excited by plant life, from the extraordinary wild flowers of a Piemonte Spring to the flowers in my garden. I work in my studio from sketches and photographs made in the landscape. I usually work up larger drawings from my sketches, then start my paintings with a series of acrylic washes and building up thicker layers of either acrylic or oil. I like to explore the quality of the paint, often scraping paint off of the canvas revealing subtle textures and colours beneath and contrasting these with opaque textured paint. Although I use my drawings as a basis for my paintings I find that the painting takes usually takes on its own direction and can move away entirely from the original drawings. For me this is all a part of the process of painting and discovering the real subject matter. My work is moving towards greater abstraction as I explore the use of symbolic rather than figurative mark making and different ways of applying paint another media to canvas, but it is always representational of nature.
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