Morning Russet and Morning Calm
By Christine Dack
Original artworks
Oil on panel
Framed
Framed size (both): H: 39cm x W: 39cm approx
£265 each
These are two of Christine's new and striking semi-abstract landscapes, both luring you in through interesting brush marks, mystical atmospheres and mysterious pathways, set in a semi-fantastical scene.
Atmosphere, texture and colour, for her, are the important characteristics. She also works hard to perfect composition, melding the lay-out of her scenes through use of atmospheric colours and brushmarks, often layering up tints so that one colour shimmers through the next, and enjoying pattern and mark-making.
The inspiration for much of her work comes from the woodland near Slad, where she lives and walks. Standing stones from the ancient pathways are incorproated into her compositions.
ABOUT CHRISTINE DACK
Prolific South Cotswolds artist, Christine, trained as a teacher, specialising in pottery and sculpture. She has always been involved with visual art; mostly ceramics and painting.
For many years, before moving to Gloucestershire, she exhibited at the Loft Studio, Salcombe, and at Harbour House in Kingsbridge with South Hams Art Forum.
"I find it totally absorbing and exciting to make a direct translation of landscape while on the spot. This experience gives me a feeling of affinity with the environment, helping me to capture the essence of my impressions.
"When possible, I work directly in oil. However, when travelling further afield, I also work in oil pastel or watercolour, making larger oil paintings on my return home."
Impressions of the landscapes she visits are many and various. Places she has painted include parts of Cornwall, Dartmoor, Greenland, Nepal, Sicily, El Hierro (the smallest Canary island), Gozo, Mongolia and Scotland. In the last two years she has focused more on West Wales and her local Cotswold area.
In 2017 she attended Newlyn Art School's "Defining Practice" course.
Christine also produces a range of striking abstract and semi-abstract work to explore other responses to landscape and scene in form and colour. We display this work both framed and unframed.