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Inspiration from Artists Wk 74 : Chris Krupinski and Audrey Johns
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Another of her tern paintings (couldn’t find any more) plus the one already posted, with comments from her Instagram. ….and a few more paintings which, although still super realistic, don’t include any fruit and only a few stripes! I like the middle one with its more subtle colours and less ‘busy’ composition. Couldn’t find any videos of her at work or any more info. about her working processes.
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by Jenny Harris
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It's all been said. Art is nothing if it doesn't at least express the artist in some way, and this work, though admirable in mirror quality execution has all the emotional appeal of a bag of marbles. Sorry, not for me. I'm a Hercules Brabazon Brabazon admirer. He bring out strong feelings , be those of of envy in me. (-:
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by Jim Morris
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Astonishing work, and in watercolour! Had I found this artist I'd need to check, more than once, that she WAS a watercolourist. I have unstinted admiration for her skill and glorious use of colour, but I feel as I did with Steve Hank's work in my thread on watercolourists. I'm envious of his and this artist's technical skills, but find myself wanting more than an exact representation of whatever she's painting. Churlish...because I like it for certain subjects...vintage cars and trains for example. So there's no real logic to my comments, beyond the fact that I'm looking for the artists personal take on things and not seeing it.
However, I feel she is an absolute master of her chosen medium, and I'm very pleased to see her work.
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I put my glasses on twice to make sure this wasn't a photograph - it's incredible how you can paint so accurately, I take my hat off to this technical achievement! And yet I feel that 100 - 101% perfectionism is dead for me. It kills everything. It's like in music: pure perfectionism doesn't sound - it's perfect - but dead. Emotion is never perfect - and that is alive and human. That's why I feel the same way as many of the previous speakers here. When I used to play the cello all my life, I experienced something very similar: by having to practise pieces for months and years until it sounded perfect - it lost its soul. The desire, the joy, all gone - through constant daily practice practice practice...I'm talking about 4-6 hours of cello playing. Years of practising the same piece. Of striving for the perfect sound. But I now have a completely different attitude towards it.
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She says the best advice she has been given as an artist is ‘to paint who you are and not what someone else tells you that you need to be.
Which is exactly what she has done.
Each painting is a little masterpiece in skill, observation and so much patience. Is
.Each painting is rather incredible , ok so realistic could be a photograph but I don't think so. A camera could never achieve this.
The terns are "nice" but not remarkable . Yes I would hang a bowl of her fruit on my wall....they just glow.
Wonder if she eats it all afterwards.
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Well quite mixed views but all agree that she is a very skilled artist , I do like them a lot but not enough to put one on my wall .
Sorry Jenny I’m posting this earlier than usual as I’m out till later , a very different artist who I came across recently.
Audrey Johns is a English artist who has lived in Pembrokeshire for fifty years. The buildings and architecture of south west Wales form the main theme in her paintings. The landscape paintings reflect her fascination with the past, particularly the cottages and humble dwellings of the west Wales farming community.
In interview she said that “ the use of colour is vital in her work along with plenty of artistic license that is dramatic, lively and decorative and fits perfectly in with the contemporary art scene.”
I hope you enjoy the selection I have made .
