South Cotswolds Walks Series
By Christine Dack
Original artworks
Mixed media, cold wax and collage on board
Image sizes: H: 20cm x W: 20cm or H: 30cm x W: 30cm
Framed sizes: H: 23cm x W: 23cm or H: 33cm x W: 33cm
Smaller: £165 each
Larger: £265 each
This series of seven new semi-abstract works embodies the best of Christine's local landscape works, each suggesting the ancient history and mystery of the landscape.
They lure you into a pathway through each scene, through interesting brush marks and textures, mystical atmospheres and caverns, all set in a semi-fantastical scene. Tall tree trunks and standing stones mark the routes.
Atmosphere, texture and colour, for her, are the important characteristics. She also works hard to perfect composition, creating the lay-out of her scenes through use of atmospheric colours, often layering up tints so that one colour shimmers through the next, and enjoying pattern and mark-making.
The inspiration for much of her work comes from the woodland near Slad, where she lives and walks. Standing stones from the ancient pathways are incorporated into her compositions. Some of these pieces also include fragments of poetry by novelist and poet Laurie Lee who was brought up in the area she depicts.
ABOUT CHRISTINE DACK
Prolific South Cotswolds artist, Christine, trained as a teacher, specialising in pottery and sculpture. She has always been involved with visual art; mostly ceramics and painting.
For many years, before moving to Gloucestershire, she exhibited at the Loft Studio, Salcombe, and at Harbour House in Kingsbridge with South Hams Art Forum.
"I find it totally absorbing and exciting to make a direct translation of landscape while on the spot. This experience gives me a feeling of affinity with the environment, helping me to capture the essence of my impressions.
"When possible, I work directly in oil. However, when travelling further afield, I also work in oil pastel or watercolour, making larger oil paintings on my return home."
Impressions of the landscapes she visits are many and various. Places she has painted include parts of Cornwall, Dartmoor, Greenland, Nepal, Sicily, El Hierro (the smallest Canary island), Gozo, Mongolia and Scotland. In the last two years she has focused more on West Wales and her local Cotswold area.
In 2017 she attended Newlyn Art School's "Defining Practice" course.
Christine also produces a range of striking abstract and semi-abstract work to explore other responses to landscape and scene in form and colour. We display this work both framed and unframed.