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Inspiration From Artists Wk172 Featuring Artists : Georgia Hart and Paul Jacob Naffell.
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GEORGIA HART is a British Canadian landscape artist who works exclusively with palette knives to create her distinctive impasto paintings in both oil and acrylic. She is based in London and before becoming a full-time artist studied Zoology at university. Although she started her post-university career making documentaries about science and wildlife, art has always been part of her life in some form - even throughout her Zoology degree she would paint, but it was some time before she realised being an artist could be an option for her.
Self-taught, she was originally a wildlife artist starting off in oil before trying illustration and eventually moving into landscapes. Now she paints the wildness of the natural world, often travelling to off-grid Canada in search of inspiration for her work. She works primarily from her own photos and prefers to work on paper, although does occasionally use canvas.
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I sort of like them and I appreciate the skill in wielding a pallet knife, but I'm not sure about some of her colours. I agree with Marjorie the 5th one down is rather acidic in colour choice. But not seeing the photo reference it's difficult to judge, as one should paint what you see, not what you think you should see in my book. Says she who paints fantasy cottages! A very good choice though Jenny, as very interesting to see this style and technique.
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I would suggest that most if not all of the illustrations submitted have been done using acrylic… so paper is fine as long as it has a sealant, gesso being the obvious option!
There’s something relatively refreshing about her work, a bit of a muchness maybe - a similar theme running through most of these, heavy impasto, a fairly simple palette coupled with much dynamic slashing around with a painting knife.
A good find from Jenny nonetheless…
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Most of the paintings above look like oil to me - it would be very difficult to achieve the creamy quality of the paint in acrylic, though that might depend on the brand of acrylics to a great extent.
As for paper - well: I wouldn't use any paper for oil if I could avoid it, though as I think she paints en plein air when she can, an oil painting paper would be convenient; or watercolour paper primed with acrylic, perhaps? I have a few reservations, which I hope aren't inspired mainly by jealousy! The paint does have a passing resemblance, in a few of the above, to whipped cream; I can't comment on the acidic nature of the colour, because I've not been to her part of the world - you'd have to see the quality of the light there to form a definitive opinion: but while "paint what you see" is generally good advice (and I wish a couple of Scottish painters I've had a moan about before would observe it), the painting knife does enable you to paint very thickly, and that sometimes intensifies colour by pushing it forward... i.e. it can exaggerate it. Very satisfying to paint that way - but not, I must say, actually all that difficult: if I were to criticize these examples of her work, I'd say that her repertoire of skills seems to be rather limited: but that's a pernickety comment, it's how the work hits the eye of the viewing public, and collectors even better, that really matters, not old Jones's grudging praise...
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Most of the paintings shown above are listed as oil on paper on her website. Alan mentioned that her work seems to be a bit of a muchness, maybe partly because I’ve chosen the paintings I most like which are similar in theme and colour! Also, I think the paintings of a number of artists we’ve featured on this thread actually look better seen individually - they often lose impact when quite a few are seen one after the other. These are a few of her paintings with a different theme.
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The second one of your last postings is absolutely brilliant, I’m not usually taken with oils they have to be particularly good, this far more than good , would happily put it on my wall . I like some oil painting , it’s not because I don’t like oil painting per say, I’m just very selective .