Wild Flowers and Into the Wood
By Luba Arnold-Larnie
Acrylic on canvas
Original artworks
Framed
Wild Flowers: £895
Framed size: H: 64cm x W: 64cm
Into the Wood: £595
Framed size: H: 43cm x W: 53cm
Luba plays with bright colours, shapes and two very contrasting styles of paint marks in these abstract images inspired by walks through wild woods and hills near her Gloucestershire home.
The inventive colour palettes are similar - but the outcomes are entirely different.
Wild Flowers is a multi-layered, splatter-style piece that is full of energy and floral vibrancy. Almost like floral fireworks, celebrating spontaneity, improvisation and a very physical approach to making highly-textured art.
Into the Wood, the more geometrically abstracted of the two, conjures up pathways and tracks in its dominant, curving central line and is rich with vivid sweeps of pigment and flat planes of colour.
ABOUT LUBA ARNOLD-LARNIE
Luba is a contemporary landscape artist living in Gloucestershire.
Her abstract paintings explore an emotional representation of nature in all of its states and behaviours, from gentle and calm to brutal and violent.In her exuberant, colour-drenched depictions, Nature comes to life and unleashes its full, elemental force, from shimmering sunshine to turbulent storm, dawn to dusk.
With acrylic, oil and charcoal as her main media, she plays with pure colours, light effects and form, intensifying them, pushing them to extremes. Palette knife marks create texture and numerous layers of paint overlap to add depth.Luba's approach combines painting from memory, sketches, photographs and, of course, on location work. Her technique is energetic and intuitive. There's often a spontaneous reaction - or an impression of spontaneity.
It's about the way a subject or scene makes both the artist and the viewer feel: how we respond to shape and colour, to dynamic pattern and brush marks.
Her artworks have appeared in exhibitions in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Devon and Cornwall. She has a degree in Art History.