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Landscapes are not just a collection of trees breaking the dawn sky in, say, Wales. They are not just a set of jagged and sharp rock formations looking west to the Isle of Skye. Fine art landscapes are deeper than that, deeper than just conscious shapes your mind follows as you contemplate a piece of work. They belong to you - especially if you have experienced that place, and so, it can define us and makes us who we are.
Without landscapes there is no spatial belonging and life could be filled with just brief encounters with others. It doesn’t matter if you are creating a landscape of skyscrapers or a thick wintry forest scene. Any landscape has meaning for someone somewhere and it is compelling to make pieces and to witness the reaction on a viewer’s face when they associate something they have done, a memory, with the landscape they are viewing - a connection in time.
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Abstract works are such a challenge and can be very stimulating both emotionally and intellectually. I think generating the right emotions from an abstract painting can be one of the most rewarding experiences for an artist. To add intellectual stimulation can provide a real mix of emotions that can be either support or even oppose an intellectual perspective. For example, an art piece without any real life representation can generate emotions of relaxation using just harmonic colours whereas other abstract pieces allows an individual to realize there are distinct real life objects or forms of association such as a vase resting on a table. Colour and abstract form have no bounds.
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