Winter Track - SOLD
By Caroline Chappell
Acrylic and mixed media on deep canvas
Original artworks
Framed
Image sizes
Image size: H: 40cm x W: 120cm
Framed size: H: 48cm x W: 128cm
One of our most popular semi-abstract landscape painters, Caroline Chappell spends much of her time strolling and exploring the North Cotswold landscape and recording its folds, contours and colours.
As ever, this work - shaped as wide-angle horizontal slice - is characterised by a myriad of different, gestural brush strokes, or marks made with other implements, and rich colour combinations, of maroon and viridian with taupe to suggest the light and shade of the snow.
The shape of the canvas suggests the wide, open expanse of snow and big sky, with bands and sweeps of colour to lead the eye back to the horizon and implied vanishing point at the curve of the track. The overall suggestion is of billowing wind across a barren terrain and a crisp winter's day - but the effect is soothing, not stormy, partly due to the unusual colour palette choice.
Colours are built up in layers and bands and suggest spontaneity and an expressive response to the scene. Each landscape tells a story and is as much about how the viewer feels about the art as the act of creating the art itself.
ABOUT CAROLINE CHAPPELL
Caroline has proven to be extremely popular with abstract and semi-abstract landscape lovers from all over the country and with our clients in Tetbury.
She is a contemporary artist particularly well known for her abstract and semi-abstract landscapes and flower paintings. Expressive use of colour and composition create atmospheric and energetic paintings which demand that the viewer look again.
As a Cotswold-based artist, she has built a formidable reputation for depicting the ancient landscape of our region, using broad brush strokes and expressive marks of many kinds to suggest the drama of rolling topography and the spectacular natural light changes of the skies above.
Her powerful landscapes draw in the viewer to a stunning vista, full of dramatic light, space and colour. She works in layers of mixed media, especially acrylic paint, and uses found objects as well as more conventional palette knives and brushes to make an array of expressive marks and details.
“Walking in the tracks of our Neolithic ancestors on paths that traverse the countryside, I capture a sense of place by drawing and making notes. This is the beginning of the creative process, where decisions about composition, size and medium begin.
"Back in my studio, I develop these ideas. My paintings express sensations, memories and responses to my world. Bridle paths and drovers’ roads, ancient burial sites, stone circles, tracks and holloways all whisper their story.”
Caroline trained at Homerton College Cambridge then taught Art in secondary schools. Later, she launched own career as a professional artist. She works from a home studio on the southern edge of Banbury with expansive views towards the Cotswolds. She also offers adult art workshops and individual mentoring.
Her work has featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and won various prestigious awards in the region. Her works are in collections as far afield as Canada, the US and Europe.