by kate marchuk
Oil on board
h: 30 w: 23 d: 1 (cms).
Beautiful David Austin roses - ‘Champagne’, I think - with very close and subtle chroma and value shifts and careful attention to edge variation and control. The roses and glass vase are rendered with minimal strokes, very expressively, but such is the attention to value, chroma and edges that the expressive brushwork tricks the eye into seeing detail where really there is none and the viewer therefore collaborates in the process. This was painted this year, in my third year of painting and was an absolute joy to paint….
£250 (As exhibited.)
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by kate marchuk
Oil on board
h: 31 w: 31 d: 1 (cms).
This was painted for my mother’s birthday - September 1st:- the flowers are from the garden and were actually picked for Mothers’ Day. The roses are Mme Gregoire de Staechlin and sadly they only bloom once a year. They are climbers and the flower heads naturally droop downwards so that a perfect view of their beautiful form is given - and their scent is equal to their beauty. The form of these roses is very complex and this composition is both back-lit and from the side…there is no attempt to paint individual petals but the change in chroma and the contrast in values as the light comes through the edges of the petals gives the illusion of form, light and shadow doing the heavy lifting The willow- pattern jug is suggested, in only slightly more detail than its’ shadow…
£350 (As exhibited.)
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by kate marchuk
Oil on boa
h: 30 w: 23 d: 1 (cms).
The title is taken from perhaps the greatest poem of the 20th century… T S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and was inspired by our confused and fractured world. The view is from a mountain summit, but where you would expect clarity and a clear vision of the way ahead there is instead a fragmented vista….The world depicted is nevertheless beautiful and the rich, saturated colours show this - but there is intractable and dangerously fissured ground to negotiate too. The painting moves in the direction of abstraction, though is still recognisable as a landscape. There is not much of an attempt to depict value and chroma in a realistic way in this painting, rather a reliance on texture ( with palette knives used rather than brushes) and colour to convey atmosphere and an unsettling element to the whole. L
£350 (As exhibited.)
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