Water Lilies and Dreamy Morning
By Luba Arnold-Larnie
Acrylic on canvas
Original artworks
Framed (white)
Dreamy Morning - £595
Framed size - H: 64cm x W: 64cm
Water Lilies - £395
Framed size - H: 45cm x W: 53cm
This pair of semi-abstratc floral paintings have thick applications of paint and the impression they create is as much about the texture of the paint surface as it is about the colours.
Dreamy Morning suggests a misty haze over the crowd of poppy heads in the long grass, while Water Lilies conveys a hot summer day and vivid, sun-drenched colours on the flowers and leaves floating on the still water.
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.