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Arwyn Quick
“from studio to gallery”
Arwyn has a passion for colour and the natural forms that the
spaciousness evoked in him by the remote Derbyshire Peaks
that is his local environment.
The power of his first impressions of the landscape totally
relate to the colour he chooses in his palette. He allows the
colours and his inner vision of nature to rise to the surface and
create the raw force behind the landscape. What is probably
more interesting was his discovery of semi-abstract painting. It
seems he created these works at a time when they were totally
outside his comfort zone and the more realist work he is known
for in his immediate area.
Perhaps this ‘happy accidental’ creation was always inside
him and simply took it’s time to surface. For me these abstract
landscapes or more precisely semi-abstract landscapes, are the
stand out works he has created so far and go far beyond the
realistic landscape paintings that one can see on the web and
on the high street in abundance.
It does seem that his more recent abstraction paintings are
more ‘conscience’ in their creation and they do bring to mind
the work of John Smout, (a painter featured in Tubes issue#2
2017) who works in the same vein as Arwyn. That vein is
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exploring what is underneath the earth whilst simultaneously
making the representation of the landscape evident.
It may take for his collectors to ‘come to see and admire’
Arwyn’s abstractions in the future rather than today, but that is
sadly, more often the case than not. However, I do hope Arwyn
‘takes the risk’ and grasps the opportunity to go one step
further by seriously looking at ‘scale’ of the work he currently
is making. ‘Up-scaling’ is often challenging for a painter but
the reward and satisfaction of a successful piece is both worth
the effort and the risk of failure.
images ©Arwy Quick
Summary written by Denis Taylor.
©Tubes magazine 2018 and 2019
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