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Size: 18 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in
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An original oil painting on stretched canvas by South Australian artist Scott Maxwell If you want a specific size painting get in touch with me or the bluethumb team we can work that out easily. I'm happy to do commission work. This is a new process I've been developing recently, it's quite different to my other techniques. Composition is simplified, mostly horizontal areas or bands of colour and varying tones on a vertical canvas. Some of the technique is borrowed from the German artist Gerhard Richters squeegee paintings. I've combined this with my own methods and inspirations, my love of abstract landscape and seascape painting. After painting many many experiments, it was clear that one of the directions was headed towards landscapes and seascapes. I went with that to create this work. I wanted to show off the colours of our country I use Art Spectrum Australian landscape colours, Flinders blues and red violets, Australian reds, golds, blues, ochres and umbers in various mixtures. The paint is applied to the canvas in contrasting ways. Some is laid on thickly with no brush work at all, while other areas are brushed and glazed to build a glowing 'wet paint looking' surface. The combination of squeegee, brushing, scraping back, reapplying glazing continue until the painting finds it moment. It's an interesting process and an interesting result. This painting is still drying, it will be ready to varnish and hang in mid September 2019 . Secure it now and it will be shipped to you as soon as it's possible. This painting is on a thick edged stretched canvas the edges of the canvas are painted black and a hanging wire is attached to the back so it is ready to hang unframed.
Oil on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
18 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in
Not Framed
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I am a South Australian artist born in Adelaide, where I still reside today. I studied art at TAFE. I've been painting for most of my life. I am a full time painter. I suffer from chronic pain, this is a very large, but not entire influence on my art. Painting helps to give life more substance and meaning, for both myself and the viewers and collectors. I believe there are many mysteries in life that can only be attained through a creative artistic process. Art is a mysterious story with many coloured layers and textured intrigue built on to the surface of the canvas. Art should be a question not an easy answer. Questions are an opportunity, an opening to possibilities especially when they are coming from the deeper consciousness, free from the restraints of logical thought. Answers and definitions are a closing off of those questions and possible connections. I try to not have too much of an idea of what I am going to paint when I sit at the easel, but I do seem to have some recurring themes and styles. They range from fiery intensely coloured artworks filled with heat that represent what's at my core, Stormy dark paintings and muted more earthy tones. I enjoy creating organic surfaces and often these paintings resemble organisms, cells and their environment. These works often represent or are questions about my own mortality as i get older and our very deep connection to the earth we live on. There are also many connections to what happens as a result of chronic pain, what's going on via receptors in the brain, message pathways and chemical reactions, triggers and relief. Change and the ability for things to become something else is a big inspiration, this shows in many different ways. Yet It's really all about the process. Working the materials, creating a surface with texture and depth. During that process the subconscious is accessed and a mystery plays out. Something ephemeral yet with deep connections is revealed and can be worked through and manipulated on the canvas. What the finished creation is becomes somewhat less important to the artist, the process is where it's at, that's my part of the therapy, the learning process. When people think about how an artwork was made or wonder what it is about it that attracts them, it's a glimpse of the learning and often healing process that the artist went through to create it. There's an opportunity there, something may speaks to you, you may not hear it, but, a thin thread might be there.
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