Sleeping Greyhound, 2020
Nicholas Robertson
Acrylics on mounted canvas
Original Painting, 51 x 76 x 0.5 cm
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Nicholas Robertson
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About Nicholas Robertson
Born Gloucester UK. I suspect like most figurative artists I find drawing and painting the human form wholly embedded with human behaviour. The desire to secure more than a representation of a persons movement, the spilling of light over contours or the various other physical facets is the reason we continue to make paintings. To liberate a recognisable small emotion in texture, colour and pattern and to make it still, perhaps this is a measure of a successful painting. I like to work in acrylic because it allows me to experiment, making changes quickly is paramount when wishing to explore your options.
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This subject is deliberately mannered in style to emphasise the linear elements of the breed. Observation of greyhounds and whippets revealed to me their unusual ability to adopt odd postures when sleeping.
Like many of my paintings I favour an abstract or semi abstract background. I could give some intellectual post-justification for this, however, the truth is that it just pleases me to arrange the juxtaposition of form and colour in this way. The work consists of an acrylic base coat of burnt orange, then applied with Rowney Cryla thinned pigment using Liquidex airbrush medium. Plus opaque pigments with more subsequent layers of colour washes. This layering of the work allows for subtle tonal attributes that give depth, intensity and texture. The overall result is an acrylic painting with a degree of luminosity rather than the usual flat acrylic finish. Finished with a coat of Winsor & Newton Satin UV varnish, this not only protects the painting but has a unifying effect.
Like many of my paintings I favour an abstract or semi abstract background. I could give some intellectual post-justification for this, however, the truth is that it just pleases me to arrange the juxtaposition of form and colour in this way. The work consists of an acrylic base coat of burnt orange, then applied with Rowney Cryla thinned pigment using Liquidex airbrush medium. Plus opaque pigments with more subsequent layers of colour washes. This layering of the work allows for subtle tonal attributes that give depth, intensity and texture. The overall result is an acrylic painting with a degree of luminosity rather than the usual flat acrylic finish. Finished with a coat of Winsor & Newton Satin UV varnish, this not only protects the painting but has a unifying effect.