Sunset and Dusk
By Luba Arnold-Larnie
Acrylic on deep canvas
Original artworks
Framed (white)
Sunset - £1,395
Framed size - H: 93cm x W: 93cm
Dusk - £1,395
Framed size - H: 93cm x W: 93cm
This pair of semi-abstract landscape paintings boasts thick applications of paint and bold shapes and sweeps of coloour. The impression they create is as much about the texture of the paint surface, the contrasting tones and the brush strokes as it is about the vibrant colours themselves.
Suggested by a similar scene at the end and start of a day, the horizon in both is high, allowing space for plenty of foreground exploration of layering and a strong linear axis, mirrored in each piece, to carry our eye into the vista.
As with others of Luba's larger works, they would look fabulous on a plain or pale expanse of wall in a main reception room, bedroom or hallway.
ABOUT LUBA ARNOLD-LARNIE
Luba is a contemporary landscape artist living in Gloucestershire.
Her abstract paintings explore an emotional representation of nature in all of its states and behaviours, from gentle and calm to brutal and violent.In her exuberant, colour-drenched depictions, Nature comes to life and unleashes its full, elemental force, from shimmering sunshine to turbulent storm, dawn to dusk.
With acrylic, oil and charcoal as her main media, she plays with pure colours, light effects and form, intensifying them, pushing them to extremes. Palette knife marks create texture and numerous layers of paint overlap to add depth.Luba's approach combines painting from memory, sketches, photographs and, of course, on location work. Her technique is energetic and intuitive. There's often a spontaneous reaction - or an impression of spontaneity.
It's about the way a subject or scene makes both the artist and the viewer feel: how we respond to shape and colour, to dynamic pattern and brush marks.
Her artworks have appeared in exhibitions in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Devon and Cornwall. She has a degree in Art History.