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The First Swallow Returns Print
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The First Swallow Returns is a 40x40x1.5 inches oil on canvas painting showing a solitary swallow arriving back to her English meadow in springtime. Grasses and white meadow flowers are in the foreground and through them you just catch glimpses of a river which meanders diagonally from right to left and into the fields beyond. The sky is blue and the sun streams across from the right. The feel of the painting is one of relief and optimism as the return of the swallows from Africa heralds spring and summer in England. This painting was inspired by a stretch of the river Medway that you can walk from Fordcombe, near Tunbridge Wells (postcode TN3 0RS). I walk there often as it sits in a wide river plain with gentle hills of the Kent Weald on each side of it. The river is not large at this point and there are lots of wildflowers along the edges. Swallows like the river as they can swoop low over it gathering insects. It is art nouveau and contemporary in style made by building layers of paint up over several weeks. It has wide white edges and is ready to hang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqK7aXAYaWc
Details & Dimensions
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:16 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:17.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:White Canvas
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Gill Bustamante is a professional artist based in East Sussex who creates large semi-abstract landscape, seascape and wildlife paintings in oil on canvas. Her painting style is very distinct and often fuses art-nouveau, impressionist and semi-abstract techniques with traditional portraiture that reflect her love of nature, animals, birds and the flora and fauna of the landscapes around her. She loves the ancient landscapes of England and her paintings often reflect the magical elements that such landscapes have. Gill’s main working method has been the development of a painting style she terms ‘memory impressionism’. This method involves going walking somewhere, looking at and absorbing the things she sees and experiences, and then returning home to her studio to try and capture an echo or essence of the place from memory - including any wildlife she may have seen. By this method, she captures precise moments in times at different seasons and the feeling she has about them. Gill completed a fine art degree in Brighton in 1983 and has painted since she was three. In her own words: “Painting always makes me happy along with cake, bunnies, driving erratically, BBC 6 music and totally irreverent comedy”. Website: www.gillbustamante.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/gill.bustamante.artist/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/GillBustamanteArtist/ Pinterest: www.pinterest.co.uk/gillbustamante You-Tube: www.youtube.com/c/GillBustamante ETSY-Store: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SussexPaintings
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