Paul Denham, Atmospheric Abstract Landscape Painting of British Moorland with Earthy Tones, 2011

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Atmospheric Abstract Landscape Painting of British Moorland with Earthy Tones, entitled 'The Oldest Hill', by English Artist Paul Denham. Paul … Read more Atmospheric Abstract Landscape Painting of British Moorland with Earthy Tones, entitled 'The Oldest Hill', by English Artist Paul Denham. Paul starts to paint by applying a ground into which he carves linear markings. These lines give the surface an etched quality which the paint bites into. They represent details like the contours of hillsides, rock forms, animal tracks, stone walls, streams and old mining scars now half reclaimed by nature. He then allows the work to evolve over this surface through the paint itself, forming the ‘geology’ of markings and glazes which echo a spirit of place. The result is that Paul’s work has a strong sense of what he describes as ‘a memory of landscape’. See less