lAwrENCE COulSON
I fi nd the seashore such a romantic within myself, and I am enjoying painting
 Freedom Is A Place
homage to this great artist. The power, light,
place. The dramatic changes of light in a more than ever.
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drama and beauty in his work are all the
painting like ‘Where We Begin’ undoubt-
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inspiration I will ever need.
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edly becomes the central focus of the pic- The coast and all that it provides in
ture. I know that people identify with the terms of light, drama and power, My new way of working allows me
solitary fi gures on the beach but the title gives me an endless source of subject
 Dreamland
more individuality in each painting.
is deliberately ambiguous, and left open to matter. It allows me to vary the pictures I
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I’ve also discovered a way to give these
the viewer’s own interpretation. can create. For instance ‘Fairground Attrac- Image 9¾” x 34” paintings a much richer, more luminous
tion’ reminds me of my childhood. The
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appearance, by underpainting in warm
I’ve suddenly changed the way I paint, fairground always held a special allure for tones and building up many fi ne layers of oil
after ten years. Having always followed me, not only because of the excitement glazes just as the Old Masters used to do.
the same process I’ve stopped painting on on the rides, but because of the sheer
canvas and started paintings on panels. This energy and lively atmosphere of the place, As an artist the ultimate aim is to
gives me much greater freedom to create which I found understandably attractive. At make the painting come to life for the
diff erent surfaces for diff erent subject night times the tawdry gaudiness is totally viewer. I really had fun creating ‘Dream-
matter, and allows me to paint in a very transformed into something quite magical, land’ as the pier is a timeless icon of the
individual style for each painting. which I hope I’ve captured on canvas. British seaside. I wanted to capture the
distant lights of the pier refl ected in the
This collection has reignited a new- In my opinion the greatest painter of wet sand, and let the atmospheric sounds
found passion for painting. I feel that all time is Turner. ‘Searching’, one of the and smells transport you to another place
my work is now coming from deeper new paintings in my new collection, is my altogether.
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