63. Rhododendron Bloom
50cm high x 50cm wide
Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2014
£220
Exhibited at Eagle members show August 18th – September 11th 2014
Exhibited at Kimpton Art Show 1st May - 4th May 2015
Exhibited in "Bargain Corner" part of "Urban & Rural" at the Eagle Gallery September 19th - 26th 2015
Exhibited at "The Butterfly and St. Paul's", Eagle Gallery, Sat 11th - Sat 18th May 2019
Exhibited at The Workhouse "Wished for at Christmas 2019", 12th Nov 2019 - 11th Jan 2020
Exhibited at Eagle Members show 16th May - 8th June 2023
This piece was incredibly quick on the concept side and interminable when it came to physical production. Having taken photos of this full flowering rhododendron bush in my mother’s garden, I thought the images would work as perhaps a new series like the Rudbeckia ones.
There was no build up just “What is the next painting? – Oh yes I’ll do that one – select canvas - compose photo to fit – print out – trace - bosh!” Of course the idea of the simplification that occurred with the Rudbeckia series somewhat clouded my thought process.
I intended a fairly realistic first shot, but I just went to too many mini-canvases. I divided the canvas up into shapes present in the subject and painted them solid colours (not necessarily colours present in the actual subject). This drawing process also simplifies the image into more manageable chunks that can be addressed individually. I was also part way down the abstracting the image like “Yellow Burst – Six colour remix” but as I over-painted the realistic layer, I feel the complicated colour by numbers stage wasted time rather than adding to it at all.
With the complexity of the image, I also had a small 6cm square window to detail the piece in sections. Generally pleased with the result – but my did it take forever!
Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2014
£220
Exhibited at Eagle members show August 18th – September 11th 2014
Exhibited at Kimpton Art Show 1st May - 4th May 2015
Exhibited in "Bargain Corner" part of "Urban & Rural" at the Eagle Gallery September 19th - 26th 2015
Exhibited at "The Butterfly and St. Paul's", Eagle Gallery, Sat 11th - Sat 18th May 2019
Exhibited at The Workhouse "Wished for at Christmas 2019", 12th Nov 2019 - 11th Jan 2020
Exhibited at Eagle Members show 16th May - 8th June 2023
This piece was incredibly quick on the concept side and interminable when it came to physical production. Having taken photos of this full flowering rhododendron bush in my mother’s garden, I thought the images would work as perhaps a new series like the Rudbeckia ones.
There was no build up just “What is the next painting? – Oh yes I’ll do that one – select canvas - compose photo to fit – print out – trace - bosh!” Of course the idea of the simplification that occurred with the Rudbeckia series somewhat clouded my thought process.
I intended a fairly realistic first shot, but I just went to too many mini-canvases. I divided the canvas up into shapes present in the subject and painted them solid colours (not necessarily colours present in the actual subject). This drawing process also simplifies the image into more manageable chunks that can be addressed individually. I was also part way down the abstracting the image like “Yellow Burst – Six colour remix” but as I over-painted the realistic layer, I feel the complicated colour by numbers stage wasted time rather than adding to it at all.
With the complexity of the image, I also had a small 6cm square window to detail the piece in sections. Generally pleased with the result – but my did it take forever!