Souls Of The Ashdown Forest, 2020
Gill Bustamante
Oil on canvas
Original Painting, 121.92 x 91.44 x 3.81 cm
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Gill Bustamante is definitely a dreamer as her ambition is to paint a way out of this universe into a better one! Most of her artworks feature pathways, portals and little mystery roots to other realities.
Her painting style is a fusion of expressionism, impressionism, semi-abstract and art nouveau. All depictions of fairytale landscapes, dreamy animals, mystery birds, horses and deer. Her techniques and ideas stand out to such an extent, they make a statement for themselves.
This artist is worth following if you just have the urge to escape out this world and dive into some wonderful places.Kelly Kaimaki, Creative Writer / Curator
About Gill Bustamante
My name is Gill Bustamante, and I have obtained a Fine Arts degree in Brighton in 1983. I paint large, contemporary landscape and seascape paintings in oil on canvas. They are mostly inspired by the Sussex landscapes I see around me where I live. This is where I go walking somewhere rural, look at and absorb the things I see and experience, and then come home and try to capture an 'echo' of the place from memory, including any wildlife I may have seen.
My painting style is a fusion of Expressionist, Impressionist, Semi-abstract, Art Nouveau, and something I term "Memory Impressionism."
I have painted since I was three. It always makes me happy along with cake, bunnies, driving erratically, BBC 6 music, and totally irreverent comedy.About the Product
Souls of the Ashdown Forest is a 36 x 48 x 1.5 inches oil painting of a view through the trees of the Ashdown Forest towards some deer in the heather.
It was inspired by many walks in the area – especially during lockdown 2020. You often see deer around here, but deer being deer, you only get to see them for seconds at a time before they flash their white bum’s at you and vanish into the trees. This particular painting was of a view from one of the clumps of trees in the area looking towards the farmland and heather and heathland beyond. It has been made by building up layers of paint until it has a green-gold glow in the first section and colder purples, lilacs, and yellow in the spaces between the trees. A deer stag can be seen on the left looking back at us, and a string of females can be seen on the right, moving off into the distance. The heather of the forest is loosely approximated by using purple, which contrasts with the green gold in an interesting way.
It is semi-abstract and a kind of messy art nouveau in style. It is on deep edge canvas, white edges, ready to hang.
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