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An evening out in Bordeaux and I am looking at the wonderful light and shadow created by the large scale columns at the Grand Theatre. In turning the corner I catch a couple in close embrace. The magnitude and romance of the architecture that surrounded them seemed to intensify their intimate moment of passion. I hurriedly took a photo before they had time to realise anybody was watching them. It is these snatched moments that often inspire my work, fleeting overlaps of lives that brush their existence with one another without any long duration. I work in oils, glazing layer upon layer until I reach the depth of colour and intensity that I am looking for. Light plays an important part in my work and I get excited by deep contrasts and the play of light on buildings and landscapes. The oil allows me to play with surface textures, sweeping on undiluted strokes of paint in one area and allowing the medium thinned oil to seemingly melt and run off the page in another.
2017
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14 W x 21 H x 1.25 D in
15.75 W x 22.75 H x 1.25 D in
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Amanda Rackowe is an British-born artist, based in the Dordogne, France.. Born in 1964 in Oxfordshire, Amanda demonstrated a strong enthusiasm for drawing and painting as a child, winning several school and college art competitions, in which her unusual choice of subject matter often caused controversy between judges and the public alike. She pursued a career in theatre lighting and later in architectural lighting design. Throughout these years she continued to paint. Drawing inspiration from her career her take on her work is to ‘paint with light’; a concept that has become one of the influential factors in her painting. At a young age, Amanda had fallen upon the painting ‘Christina’s World’ by American artist, Andrew Wyeth - an early discovery that brought about an appreciation for sparse and open landscapes. The combination of these influential elements can be found in her work; appearing in her portrayal of the french landscapes she discovers on her travels and near her home, inspired by the light and expansive skies of particularly the Dordogne and Auvergne regions and the île d'Oléron. A nearby grain silo became a reoccurring element and subject of many of her paintings for over a decade, which enabled her to explore the effects of the changing light and seasons on the landscapes and skies surrounding it. In many of her stark landscapes, she poses reminders of a human presence; perhaps a lone figure, or a vehicle with illuminated headlamps standing in direct contrast to the natural light. The echoes of Man are never far away in her work; distant horizons punctuated by material elements, such as electricity pylons and wind generators, silos and telegraph poles. The diminishing perspective of the roads in the artist's works interpret a sense of constant continuation… often carrying a slight disquiet, reflecting our uncertainty as to where a road may lead us; a comment on our lives, an unfinished story with no defined ending. The roads of the Aquitaine landscape subsequently led to other places; into the city of Bordeaux, where the brutalist architecture, modernist bridges and Corbusier influenced buildings gave her the aspiration to find a new way to depict the scenes before her, many of which are often unconsidered in the blinkered vision of daily life. Here, the theme of isolation concurs within the crowded life of the city, hinted at amongst the concrete structures and hidden lives.
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