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Rain on the Terrace Painting

Lou Hamilton

United Kingdom

Painting, Ink on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Size: 28 W x 28 H x 0.5 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Renting an airbnb in South of France for a couple of weeks I set up my studio by the double doors overlooking the terrace. One night the beautiful weather broke and we had the most terrific storm, with rain pounding down on the terrace and knocking the white chairs every which way. The next morning I painted the scene from memory, onto one of the half metre squares of gauze I’d brought with me. I’d been doing some small watercolours and wanted to make larger works with the same soft, fluid semi-transparent quality. I don’t particularly like working with acrylic (unless as an undercoat for my oil paintings) as I’m not keen on the thick plastic quality it can sometimes have. However with these fabric paintings I decided to work with inks and very thin acrylic, in washes first and only on the final layer add thicker strokes if necessary; in this case to bring out the white chairs, raindrops on the terrace and the ominous sky. It dries quickly and in the same day I am able to add my character Brave New Girl and she dances in the rain across the terrace and then off on her next adventure. I sew her journey across the abstracted scene in large, loose wobbly stitches in silk yarn to represent each of her steps and then embroider the character herself as a sign-off to the piece.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Ink on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

28 W x 28 H x 0.5 D in

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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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Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, London

Artist featured in a collection

Artist featured by Saatchi Art in a collection

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