Oil painting by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley

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Love this. I think that maybe a more descriptive title would help the viewer. 🤔

Thank you Martin. You found it without a title 🙂. I try not to influence people about interpretation because it should be for the viewer to respond. Thinking about what you see is more exciting in my view.

Very powerful with those colours Gudrun.

Thank you Marjorie. I am enjoying exploring colours and what I can do with them.

I agree with you fully on the naming of pictures. I hate having to give my pictures a title. To me its irelavent, art is not about words. This oil painting is brilliant. It speaks for itself .

Thank you very much for your appreciation Michael. There is something very special about what you can do with oil paint.

Hang on Studio Wall
13/11/2025
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I finally got to the oils today. 60x80cm oil on linen canvas.

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Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley

"The good painter has to paint two principal things, that is to say, man and the intention of his mind. The first is easy and the second difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs." (MK388) From: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work, p16, J…

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