CRYSTAL COAST - 2023 Original Oil Painting

Original oil by palette knife and brush on stretched canvas - 20" x 16" x 0.5" stretched.

I would like to present the hand painted oil on canvas. This painting comes signed on the back. By Sarasota Artist Mark Bradford. 

About Sarasota Artist Mark Bradford

My passion for the visual world and the pursuit of making images began at any early age and has motivated my work as an artist. How images evoke memory, create metaphor, capture a relatedness between viewer and artist, awaken an aesthetic response has been an ongoing investigation. 

I work primarily from observation, imagination and works of other artists, historical and contemporary, as source material. A series of paintings usually evolves from a metaphoric theme, a pictorial problem of light and space or a dialogue created between abstraction (flat surface) and representation (illusion of form).

The pallete knife and brush is akin to dancing over the surface, that combines intensive layering of transparent paint with areas of thicker, more gesturally applied paint. One of my goals as an artist is to combine Old Master approaches to paint palettes and techniques combined with modern notions of the paint surface. This has lead me to explore a rich variety of paint layers involving the transparency of paint over fields of toned grounds in contrast to more direct, gestural “traces” left by a painted stroke. The calligraphy of the brush mark, whether scumbled, dabbed, blended or loosely drawn through the paint becomes the means for developing a rich surface.

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