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Painting, Acrylic on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Size: 28 W x 28 H x 0.5 D in
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On my annual creative pilgrimage to the South of France what catches my breath first is the intense blue of the sky and the hedges of pink oleander lining the roads. I cycle everywhere and the pink flowers blur as I pass. I don’t see the detail, instead I feel the essence in an abstracted way and that’s what I aimed to capture in this floaty painting. Working early in the morning with the doors flung open onto the terrace I painted from memory, painting in washes of inks and acrylics and building up the layers on muslin. In the full intensity of the day’s heat I left it to dry and by the evening when I came home it was ready for me to sew my autobiographical character Brave New Girl on her journey as she passes the oleander; looping round the hedges to drink up the fragrance. I sign off by embroidering her at the end of her trail of footsteps. Hung slightly away from the wall so that it appears to float, the delicacy of the paint on muslin with the light behind it, takes on the quality of a watercolour painting, wafting gently in the breeze from the open window.
Painting:Acrylic on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:28 W x 28 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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Lou Hamilton is an artist, multi-award-winning filmmaker & podcaster. She makes abstract paintings, which aim to help create quiet, meditative spaces to live and work. Concerned mainly with the abstract & working with found materials, oils, inks, plaster & acrylic, Lou is currently exploring chaos & calm through simple textures inspired by the landscape. Whether on paper, textile or canvas, they give a lens through which to view the world, a moment to stop, pause & consider Lou’s grand-father was the figurative painter Geoffrey Tibble 1909-1952. He was one of the distinguished & influential group of artists that emerged from the Slade at the of the 1920’s and was a member of the Euston Road School of Painters. His work can be seen at the Tate, and is in many collections around the world. In 1933 he with William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore & Rodrigo Moynihan founded the Objective Abstraction movement. It was short-lived but Lou has taken up the mantel through her work. Lou grew up in the wild, open and ancient landscape of Wiltshire, and every year since childhood has spent summers amongst the scorched, saturated colours of South of France. For five years she lived and painted in the Lake District, Cumbria and South West Scotland. Now she has settled on an Island in London, surrounded by water, glass-clad buildings, and graffiti covered walls and textured, peeling surfaces. The light, texture & colours are an ever-changing source of inspiration. Her studio faces the same view that Turner painted, an influence not lost on her. Lou’s paintings are inspired by landmass, aerial views, microscopic, energetic reflections of water, light, flags & urban textures. They might appear as simple bands of colour, in a 3-act structure, that bely the depth of surface, or scratched sgraffito layered works that allow the colours & underpainting to show through the cracks & broken surface. She uses oil pastels and scrapers to make marks & lines trailing across the surface. Working first with vigorous, energetic textural strokes in acrylic, then manipulating the surface with veils of acrylics or oils mixed with organic walnut oil, medium & sometimes plaster, she builds up layers until they start to resonate and ‘hum’. At that point she knows she’s hit the sweet spot. Her aim is to create a deep expression of landmass or city scars or aerial mapping at an elemental level.
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