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Inspiration from Artists Week 76 : Chris Neale and Edward Hopper.
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Welcome to this week’s Inspiration from Artists the featuring artists this week are :
Chris Neale and Edward Hopper, Jenny will open with her introduction to Chris Neale and on Wednesday I will introduce Edward Hopper.
Later this week I’m will be posting a updated list of artist , if you have any that you like to be featured please let me know by Wednesday evening .
Over to you Jenny .
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Chris Neale is a Welsh landscape artist. After taking a foundation course in art he decided to study graphic design, and during the course of a career in graphic design produced many illustrations in various media.
In 2002 he decided to return to painting as a channel for his love of the Welsh landscape. Pastels and acrylics became his preferred medium, although he still sometimes paints in watercolour. He spends a lot of time walking with his sketchbook and camera, and with a strong sense of composition and colour in his paintings he aims to simplify the image and capture the emotion and drama of a place.
Having lived in Pembrokeshire for over 20 years he is drawn to the coast as a subject. It has shaped his palette which he tries to pare down to a minimum, with blues and ochres often featuring in his work. After spending a lot of time in North Wales, he now lives and works there, where the landscape is often raw and unforgiving with a form of primeval beauty which he aims to capture in his work.
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Being a Pembrokeshire fan, I have loved Chris's work for many years and always seek out his pictures in galleries, and I've visited his old studio near St Davids on a few occasions. I have three of his prints adorning my walls at this very moment. I love the way he simplifies things , the unfussy representation of a landscape and his use of mixed media. I wasn't aware he'd moved to north Wales however. Well done for posting these Jenny.
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Well brought back, because I hadn't seen all of these. That's a lot more like the Wales I know than some other paintings shown here in the last few weeks - it's those blues and ochres that do it.
Some of his paintings almost look as if they're collages, in felt - this may be just me, but that's how one or two of them strike me. Not a style I ever see myself trying to adopt, but I do think it's wonderful that HE has adopted it, and offered us this fresh vision.
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I like his style also, and certainly his work is more natural and more appealing to me than the recent ‘burst of colour’ artist whose name already escapes me. I’m still not sure this is the Wales I grew up in, but I do like the design aspect of it. I especially like the first and last of Jenny’s second batch, and could easily live with either of those on my wall.