A landscape after bierstadt by Michael Hanrahan
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Bierstadt is a great inspiration to me and influence too. More than turner to be honest though so many of my pictures are turneresque. Turner seems to creep into my paintings and I swear most of the time the resemblance is unintentional. I suppose his manner and methods are so absorbed into the psyche of most landscape painters that even to paint a single cloud especially during a sunset it is often observed as turneresque. His influence is all consuming. Almost like the universal law of gravitation.
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Michael Hanrahan
I love art but it's very much up and down as I go about my day to day life as a painter and often I really struggle to paint therefore I fall out with it. You're only as good as your last painting as they say. My greatest love is music and I prefer to write classical music for orchestra than paint…
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