Orchard, Early Evening

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Lovely painting. Great sense of space.

Posted by Joanne Duncan on Tue 26 Apr 14:12:43

Thank you Joanne, really kind of you to comment :)

Posted by Andrea Hook on Tue 26 Apr 14:44:15

Looks like oil with palette knife. Like the depth.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Tue 26 Apr 18:31:51

Thanks John, it's actually heavy body acrylic straight out of the tube (no water or medium) and you are completely right, it is applied with a palette knife:) Thanks for your visit and the 'like' John :)

Posted by Andrea Hook on Tue 26 Apr 18:57:06

Great painting Andrea, beautiful colours.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Tue 26 Apr 20:49:52

Thank you Cesare, very kind of you :)

Posted by Andrea Hook on Tue 26 Apr 21:25:58

Stunning work, Andrea. The textures are lovely, full of immediacy and movement. Love the bold, confident marks too.

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Wed 27 Apr 14:21:25

Thank you Seok 😀 Always lovely to hear from you and thank you for your great compliment 😀

Posted by Andrea Hook on Wed 27 Apr 22:05:37

Great work Andrea. Lovely textures.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Thu 28 Apr 08:36:04

Hang on Studio Wall

26/04/2016

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My childhood garden revisited. In a recent Q&A blog with Cowling and Wilcox, I was asked how I got started as an artist. I replied that, as a child, I was endlessly drawing and painting the old trees in our garden. The land used to be an orchard and was full of beautiful gnarled old fruit trees. So here they are, still beautiful, captured in the early evening, with long shadows and the canopies lit by the last rays of the sunshine. Impasto acrylic on canvas board, a tiny 7 by 5 inches! 22/11/2016: Delighted to announce that this painting has been shortlisted for Artists & Illustrators' Artists of the Year 2017 exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London, 23 -28 January 2017.

About the Artist

Andrea Hook

I’ve painted and sketched since early childhood and my favourite place was the garden, amongst the old fruit trees and raspberry canes. As a student, I studied for a degree in Visual Arts & Geography at Lancaster University and I worked for fifteen years as an illustrator and graphic designer in…

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