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Rowing Painting

Frances Cockburn

Canada

Painting, Oil on Wood

Size: 30 W x 24 H x 0.3 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This is part of a series inspired by my daughter's summer camp experience. I wanted to capture the natural beauty of the land and lake, but also camp life, friends and activities. As an impressionist painter, I am interested in creating a work that is realistic and recognizable, but also loose and expressive. I’m interested in painting more--and sometimes less--than what presents itself. I try to get at the truth of the subject, while letting the paint itself be part of the story, through visible brush strokes, drips, scumbled layers of broken colour and abstract passages. I’m also drawn to the reflections and distortions caused by water and refracted sunlight. Camp Mi-A-Kon-Da on Birch Island and Lake Wah Wash Kesh provided ample source material - light bouncing off the lake, the sun breaking through the trees, and the glow of a tent in the forest.

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Oil on Wood

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30 W x 24 H x 0.3 D in

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I paint what is around me – downtown Hamilton, nearby landscapes, and the people close to me. For rural paintings, I often work on location, while urban paintings and portraits generally develop in the studio from photographs or video stills. My impetus to make a painting comes from the everyday physical world - I see something that captures my attention, often mundane but surprising in its beauty. However, once I commit to a painting, it’s the paint itself that engages me. What I paint - the subject - is not irrelevant, but it becomes less important than the marks I make on the surface of a board. My goal is to paint what I see, but not copy what I see. I am interested in creating a work that is realistic and recognizable, but I am not aiming for "high realism". I try to get at the truth of something, while letting the paint itself be the protagonist in the story. That may be through impasto, visible brush strokes, drips, scumbled layers of broken colour and abstract passages. Water and reflections are a source of delight and fascination. That might be a swamp, a rainy road, a swimmer, even water in a glass -- any of these are fair game for a painting. While the subjects may seem quite different, for me they are strongly tied together through the paint handling, as the paint itself almost becomes the subject.

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