- Kurt Jackson
Contemporary Cornish painter. Emotionally charged sea-scapes. Am blown away by his work. Full of energy and movement. Jackson paints on giant canvasses weighted down by pebbles. Always outside to absorb the feeling of the setting. He incorporates detritus from the beach in some of his work. So much vigour! Really captures the sea and weather. Love his paintings. I want one!
Want to do some sketching on the beach - big, loose, looking at the similar shapes that are repeated in rock fissures, water currents, tide marks in sand, seaweed, shell patterns. Also would like to try big abstract painting in situ. Feel that I haven't done enough mark-making lately. Hopefully it will inspire the new sculpture I'm making. Also connect back to beach.
http://www.kurtjackson.co.uk/
2. Claude Monet
Love the sense of light and atmosphere of his sea-scapes. Went to the Monet exhibition at le Grand Palais, Paris in the New Year. His works are so commercialised and familiar that you don't realise how huge some of his canvasses are, or how fresh and alive are the colours. Beautiful sea-scapes of Brittany and the Riviera.
Monet was obsessed by the sea - "I should like to be always near it or on it, and when I die, to be buried in a buoy." He always worked directly outdoors, absorbing the atmosphere and capturing the fleeting impressions of light and weather. He believed that "everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has a force, a power, a vivacity of touch that cannot be re-created in the studio." (Boudin).
2. Claude Monet
Love the sense of light and atmosphere of his sea-scapes. Went to the Monet exhibition at le Grand Palais, Paris in the New Year. His works are so commercialised and familiar that you don't realise how huge some of his canvasses are, or how fresh and alive are the colours. Beautiful sea-scapes of Brittany and the Riviera.
Monet was obsessed by the sea - "I should like to be always near it or on it, and when I die, to be buried in a buoy." He always worked directly outdoors, absorbing the atmosphere and capturing the fleeting impressions of light and weather. He believed that "everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has a force, a power, a vivacity of touch that cannot be re-created in the studio." (Boudin).
I like the way you can't always tell where the rock or sky begins and the sea ends, the blurring of boundaries. Lots of light and movement. Somehow, I'd like to capture this sort of feeling in my sculptures and photographs.
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