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Sarah Moncrieff
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Inspired by Francis Bacon, committed to the process of painting and a desire to capture a passing experience I painted Sococim Cement Works Dakar Senegal.
#dakar#dakart#senegal#urbanlandscapes#oil paintings#socicim cement works#industrial landscapes#francis Bacon#London school of painters
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"Art should be accountable..."
Sean Scully's view on abstract art applies to all art and should be at the forefront of our artistic minds.
This painting of "engines on the production line" at the Mini plant works in Cowley, Oxford, captures the now almost empty factory floor and documents history through art.
#Factory paintings#oil painting#abstract art#sean scully#Urban Landscape Painting#MINI Oxford#mini car
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We have art..
"We have art in order not to die from the truth" Nietzsche. Ideas that keep me going....
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Paintings of the Mini Plant
"Mini Factory, Interior 2" Painting of a Mini car on the factory floor for #oxonartweeks 17th -24th May
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Paintings of the Mini Plant
Factory Interior, painting 1, "Engines on the Production Line" finally finished for #oxfordartweeks
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"Kossof's drawings are every bit as searching as his paintings. The drawings-done on location, as it were- seize the moment, asserting the look and feel of a particular place, at a particular time, in a particular light. their energy fills the drawing sheet and sketchbook page". Andrea Rose on Leon Kossof.
When working on a painting from a drawing I find the challenge is to include some of that energy which is inevitably lost by constant observation and reworking...
My drawing of the reception area at The Mini Plant Cowley, and the painting. To be shown as part of Oxford Artweeks at Ewert House, Ewert Place, Summertown, Oxford.
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Urban decay
"I seem to have a leaning towards decayed houses in deteriorated areas" L.S. Lowry. As artists we seek to create our own pictorial language through painting and convey our concern with man's relationship to his environment. An early painting of mine, done entirely with oil paint and a palette knife, seeks to convey the sadness and emptiness of the area in which I found this house.
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Urban Landscapes, Broadmoor Hospital
Francis Bacon believed that it was possible to concentrate human emotion on a canvas through the act of painting. My visits to Broadmoor Hospital left me scarred with a sensation of human misery and pain. The loneliness of the patients, not only excluded from life because of their detention in hospital but excluded from sharing the life we all experience by the nature of their illnesses , probably locked away in all manner of speaking. Could I depict that in my painting? The foreboding gates, the empty grounds, the stormy sky. Could it convey my sensations, response and emotions? I want my painting to reflect some of that. It is now hanging in the hospital itself, having been purchased by the trust.
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I'm interested in how to use paint and texture to describe and depict an object or in this case a Teasel. Finding a balance between their delicacy and their spikiness was a real challenge.
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The painting of the Port at Dakar is finished. I'm calling it "Richard's Container" because I have included in the painting my brothers container on the quaysidde. It was sent there from England to Senegal when he moved there in 2009. I have tried to capture some of the extraordinary light in Africa.
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Dakar Port painting
I am working on a painting of Dakar Port in Senegal. This was the view as I left the port to sail to the island of Goree, a former slave island and now a beautiful and haunting place. I loved the urban scene as i left the port and looked baxck at Dakar.
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Prison paintings series
Painting of Bullingdon Prison coming on nicely.
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I am an urban landscape painter capturing scenes of modern life.
I am interested in sites that are tucked away or hidden from us or places we pass every day but fail to notice or choose to ignore. I like to find the locations we would rather ignore and present them in a new light. I enjoy the challenge of making something visually appealing and exciting from the bland and ugly areas of a city.
I have recently turned to my home city of Oxford for my subject matter, a city renowned for its architecture and famous scenes. I have taken these famous scenes, (Magdalen Bridge, The Botanical Gardens, Punts, The Bridge of Sighs, The Radcliffe Camera, The Oxford Skyline) and dispensed with the romantic view of them. Instead I have tried to portray them from the point of view of an Oxford resident. I have painted them as a passer by might glimpse them on their way to work.
The street lamp, the bollard and the barrier are as much a part of the scene as the classic building itself. The Oxford skyline doesn’t always appear in perfect sunlight, it is still there on a cold, stormy winter’s day. In winter the punts are all moored on the river, redundant. The Bridge of Sighs which teems with tourists through the summer months is a solitary and ignored sight in the winter months.
I hope my paintings make the viewer look at a scene in a new light and in turn appreciate their own surroundings all the more.
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