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Inspiration from Artists Wk 120 featuring arts : Criss Canning and John Yardley.
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Welcome to this week thread , I have numbered this week 120 as I somehow lost track of the week number and this should brink it back into line .
The benefit is that if anyone wants to look back it’s easier if we know the week number.
This week’s artists are Criss Canning and John Yardley.
Jenny will open the thread with her introduction to Criss Canning and on Wednesday lunch time I will introduce John Yardley.
We change on the Wednesday lunch time to enable each artist to have equal time exposure.
Have a good week and enjoy the artwork on display.
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CRISS CANNING, born 1947 in Melbourne, is an Australian postwar and contemporary painter specialising in still life. Working in oil on board or canvas from her studio adjoining her husband’s plant nursery at Ascot in Perth, she is recognised for her skills in composition, colour and precision.
A few of her early oil paintings (in a very different style)
A few of her early oil paintings (in a very different style)
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Although I find her 1920's tight, almost flat, style interesting I much prefer her looser work - as in the Greek Harbour windmills scene (Jennie's 8th one down). There don't seem to be many of this ilk about, though I did find the attached. Not quite as attention grabbing as the Greek harbour though the second one does seem to be veering towards the Van Gogh.
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Her still life work is of an exemplary standard, and very difficult to do in oil paint: she must be using a very fine weave of canvas. Still life is generally far too still for my liking, and in terms of drawing pleasure from her paintings, I much prefer the landscapes and interiors which seem to have preceded her preoccupation with painting static objects. But that's quite irrelevant to anyone but me and anyone else with an aversion from still life: it's the extreme precision which is so impressive and yet, for me, so very far away from what I seek in paintings. She does though have a great eye for colour - looking at a painting, I can normally work out what pigments an artist has used, but not with some of these - the extreme blacks, the reds and browns, especially in the first painting after Lew's comment, 5 up from here - the transparency and richness of colour is outstanding.
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Having so many different artists is great and it has led me to look at artists and there work thst I would not have known about, and work thst I would not have taken much notice of before. Sharing it like we do and others making comments is really helpful and educational, as I non oil painter it’s helpful and give me insight when comments are made by artist who know the medium. I have going so much from researching the artist for the thread and has led me into taking up the opportunity to study and research marine art a subject I’m particularly interested in. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge with me and of course the other members of the forum .
