120 x 150 cm | 47 x 59 in
Subject: Abstract
Tags: Adventure, Gestural, Intense, Canvas, Land
Original painting in oil on canvas.
Friday Morning, is based on photos I took during a short trek in the French Pyrenees a few years ago with friends.
I want the viewer to feel the intensity of the marks and brushwork, as an evocation of the memory of hiking in the mountains.
In this painting I wanted to evoke my memories about hiking in the mountains. It’s about the immediacy and physicality of the process - mark-making and brushwork in which the figure almost dissolves indecipherably into an abstract landscape.
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Notable Achievements 2023
Almost camouflaged, the figures in John Heywood-Waddington’s paintings often echo the tones of the surrounding landscape. They are distinct, but only just. Seemingly quick, gestural marks one moment conceal space, the next opening it up. Oil paint partially covers the lines drawn out with oil bars. The paintings constantly toy with questions of how much and what to give the viewer. Often, they err on the line of ‘just enough’, ensuring a two-way relationship between artist and viewer. The viewer has something to grapple with, yet in return, must work to unpick the image. When we do register the figure, identifying details remain hidden. Conversely, this concealment is an act of generosity, opening up the paintings and giving them a universality that makes the images so compelling.