Title: Beyond The Flowering Camellias Are The Steps To The Garden Obelisk.
Medium: acrylic on canvas. Original painting, not framed.
Date painted: May 2011.
Image size: 36" x 24" (91.4cm x 61cm).
Availability: Available for sale.
Price: £1200
Print
Print image size: 9 x 6 inches. Prices: £30 archival paper print with mount and protective wrapping. Price includes postage and packing. For customers ordering outside the UK, please add an extra £10 to the price to cover shipping costs. Please email me to order this print directly from me. Larger fine art prints (on archival paper or on box canvas) will be available to order from February 2012, but please allow up to 28 days for these larger prints to be delivered.
About the painting...
I began this painting on Easter Sunday, 24th April 2011. The painting took 27 days to complete and was signed and dated on Friday 20th May 2011. This is a very special piece of artwork which was inspired by a visit to the beautiful gardens at RHS Rosemoor, Torrington, North Devon. The painting was created at my home address.
From the very beginning, it was my intention to create a painting which would not only be vibrant, warm and rich in colouration, but also achieve an impression of realism and depth - a sense of distance within the composition - enabling a person, when viewing the finished work, to perceive this 'distance': almost as if their eyes were journeying through the picture, being invited towards the black iron gates and then up the steps and toward the small sunlit obelisk. The use of light and shade proved crucial towards the achievement of this, and it was important to draw the eyes of the viewer toward the greatest area of light first, and then the eyes would automatically and naturally drift away from the central part of the image to scrutinize the remaining areas of the painting.
Initially, when I began the underpainting, I painted the wall area - which dominates the lower half of the picture - by applying a warm light brown colour, before adding the layers of grey for the stonework. This was to allow the warmth of the underpainting to show through the cool greys and to maintain the overall warmth that was required for the painting to work visually. Simply painting the wall area in grey would have made the lower half of the painting look cool in contrast to the warm colours in the upper half of the painting.
During September 2011, I took part in the Artists' Garden Exhibition (an art exhibition event which is held annually at RHS Rosemoor) and entered a number of paintings - one of which was my third Rosemoor-inspired painting Camellias With Iridescent Turquoise Background.
Beyond the Flowering Camellias... is the second of three Rosemoor-inspired paintings that I completed in 2011. Below are some image details of the painting.
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