Light Layered Landscape – Watercolour, Oil Pastel Painting by Worthing Artist Graham Swain

Light Layered Landscape – Watercolour, Oil Pastel Painting by Worthing Artist Graham Swain

Friday, January 14th, 2022

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Artist: Graham Swain

Artist: Graham Swain

Light Layered Landscape - Watercolour, Oil Pastel Painting by Worthing Artist Graham Swain
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Light Layered Landscape

Image Size: 56cm x 76cm / 22″ x 30″
Art Medium: Watercolour, Oil Pastel
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Graham Swain

Clapham Village, Worthing, West Sussex
“Quietly creating contemplative contemporary landscapes.”

Arts Council Funded

Phone: 07977 925586
Please mention the Sussex Artists website
Email: art@artswain.com
Website: artswain.com
Instagram: @grahamswainartist

Gallery Of Art

Contemporary Abstract Painting – Continuous Sunrise – Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex Contemporary Artist Graham Swain
Heavenly Light Landscape Painting by Graham Swain, Clapham Village, Worthing, West Sussex Artist
Distance Landscape – Contemporary Seascape by Clapham Worthing Artist Graham Swain
Dreaming Landscape – Abstract Art by Clapham Worthing West Sussex Artist Graham Swain
Contemporary Beach Landscape-Calligraphy Painting by Clapham Worthing Artist Graham Swain
Light Layered Landscape – Watercolour, Oil Pastel Painting by Worthing Artist Graham Swain

About The Artist

“Quietly creating contemplative contemporary landscapes.”

Born January 1962 in Guildford, Surrey, Graham Swain went to Portsmouth Art College to study painting after gaining an honours degree in Architecture.
His rich influences are many and varied; a priviledged education in Surrey, the third son of a senior Scotland Yard detective, marrying Emily, an actress from an acting family. His creative gifts were realised at an early age as treble soloist singing and recording in the major cathedrals of Holland, Belgium and Northern France, including Notre Dame Paris, Chartres, Rheims, Laon and the Palace of Fontainbleau.

Quality of line, purity, colour relationship and proportion and playing with perspective are the main considerations when creating his contemporary and thought-provoking landscapes.
'Pure creation and beauty is everything to me, where every mark matters.'

Also, the beauty of calligraphy often forms a structure to hang his constant and continual layering of marks and thoughts within and around landscape.

"Graham's response to landscape is contemplative. Like an elaborate game of chess, works evolve through time. Creation becomes a challenge as every mark is considered as the aesthetic process unravels towards sublime resolution. Graham's preoccupations are undoubtedly formal, but his technique relies on more than simply a conscious arrangement of shape and colour. Graham aims to intuitively distil the essence of his visual experience in a much more unlimited way. Landscape provides the ideal motif; unrestricted by figures or buildings, an exploration is permitted which ultimately pervades pure creation."

Sally-Ann Schilling, MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Former Art Historian and Lecturer, Tate Modern, London.

Graham Swain, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex - Contemporary, Contemplative Landscape Artist - Work in Progress in the Studio

Graham Swain, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex - Contemporary, Contemplative Landscape Artist - Work in Progress in the Studio

Contemporary Landscape - Watercolour, Oil Pastel, Pencil - Worthing Sussex Artist Graham Swain
Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting - Sussex Artist Graham Swain
Oil Painting - Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex Contemporary Artist Graham Swain

Art Group / Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions:

The Fittleworth Gallery, West Sussex. March 2022
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, The Mall Galleries, London
The Royal Institute of Painters in Oil, The Mall Galleries, London
The Bashimi Art House Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

Private collections in the UK and abroad

Urban Lights – Abstract Art – Crawley West Sussex Contemporary Artist Tom Glynn

Urban Lights – Abstract Art – Crawley West Sussex Contemporary Artist Tom Glynn

Wednesday, June 16th, 2021

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Sussex Artists

Artist: Tom Glynn

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Artist: Tom Glynn

Urban Lights - Abstract Art - Crawley West Sussex Artist Tom Glynn
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Urban Lights

Image Size: 68cm x 50cm framed
Art Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
Original Painting Price: Please contact the Artist

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Tom Glynn

Accomplished paintings & sculptures
for the discerning collector and dealer

Please mention the Sussex Artists website
Email: enquiries@tomglynnfineart.co.uk
Website: tomglynnfineart.com

Gallery Of Art

Urban Lights – Abstract Art – Crawley West Sussex Contemporary Artist Tom Glynn
Haystack and Fields Mixed Media Art by Crawley West Sussex Contemporary Artist Tom Glynn
Equinox Moon and Sun Landscape Painting – Modern Art – Crawley West Sussex Artist Tom Glynn
Haystack with Pool Landscape by Crawley Sussex Artist Tom Glynn
Harvest Fields Framed Abstract Art – Contemporary Crawley Sussex Artist Tom Glynn
Abstract Art – Landscape Painting Fields with Boulder – Contemporary Crawley Artist Tom Glynn

About The Artist

Born in 1956 in West Sussex and educated at West Surrey College of Art & Design / University of the Creative Arts, (B.A. (Hons) F.A.), I enjoyed an established career as Head of Art at two leading academic independent schools and was formerly Senior Examiner / Moderator with the Edexcel Examinations Board - (Pearson Qualifications).

I have a long and varied fascination with ‘Wood’. My themes explore incongruity, archaeological qualities, visual ambiguity, pictorial and real space, political irony, symbol and humour, resulting in a wide range of outcomes made from expressively applied paint, assemblage, wood and objets trouvés that yield a plethora of colour, texture, form and spatial complexities.

Review by Dr James Fox : British Art Historian & Broadcaster

Dr James Fox, British Art Historian and Broadcaster has written my critique, available in full on my website.

“Tom Glynn is one of the most inventive British artists working today. Moving effortlessly between artforms, materials and techniques, he makes beautiful, playful and sophisticated images, infused with a deeply-felt love of the world around him”.

Dr James Fox
25 June 2020

Coastal Equinox Series - Contemporary Artist Tom Glynn
Stonehenge Wiltshire England - Crawley Artist Tom Glynn
Brighton Sussex Mixed Media & Objets Trouvés - Contemporary Crawley Artist Tom Glynn

Exhibitions

Practising full-time since 2008, I exhibited at the Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Two major grant awards were received from Southern Arts.

I assisted David Nash with Ash Dome, Blaenau Ffestiniog and was commissioned by BBRK limited, (Shepperton Studios), for a site-specific sculpture.

My art is conserved and exhibited in many private collections in the UK, Europe, America and Canada.

I was awarded 3-Dimensional / Sculpture Category and Special Recognition Category in October 2016 - Global International Open Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Gallery - Featured art collection at saatchiart.com

My painting and sculpture explore the narrative of everyday events and issues; historical journeys, the paradox of objects, and the abstract qualities of both landscape and the built environment. Aspects of the Sussex landscape are significant recurring themes.

I work with a multitude of found objects, materials and techniques within the scope of both painting and sculpture, in order to harness the mystery and visual excitement created by juxtaposition, visual memory and spatial configurations - (the surrealist and dada placement of objects and images). Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell, Howard Hodgkin, Ivon Hitchens and William Turnbull, whom I met at his Camden Square house and studio in the 1970’s, have been especially influential. I have also been significantly influenced by David Nash, whom I also met, at his Blaenau Ffestiniog home and studio and later, assisted him with his ‘Ash Dome’ in 1976.