Just finished this small painting; ‘Vibrant Landscape‘. It measures 16 x 16 inch. Painted in acrylics on canvas. I hope it evokes the movement and colour-rich environment of the outdoors. I find it’s a case of sitting and observing a landscape – in my case the high moors of Dartmoor. After a while you notice…
Author: Paul Vachon
I'm an artist living in Devon, South West England. I produce abstract paintings based on my local landscape.
The progression of abstract
2. Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944) ‘Composition XVI’ Of course the name Mondrian conjures up the image of regimented black lines and primary colour block paintings. They have become synonymous, and almost a cliché, with anything modern. At the time he painted these they must have been completely bewildering and alien. But they didn’t just…
Abstract art – when did it all start?
I’ll be posting some of my thoughts on where, when and who started abstract art by commenting on particular paintings. Paul Cezanne (1839 – 1906) ‘Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L’Estaque’, 1883. Immediately recognisable as a Cezanne with the typical palette of greens and blues of trees and grass and warmer, ochre colours…
Currently on the easel
There are several works currently being worked on. Two acrylics and one oil. All part of the ‘fracture’ series. Sometimes I can finish these within days but it’s more usual to take weeks, sometimes months and even years to complete. This one is called ‘Steeperton Fracture’. It’s based on a distinctive Tor on the northern…
Fresh off the easel
My latest painting; ‘Maria Orientem’. 30 x 24 inch. Acrylic on canvas. In this current theme of the changing environment, in particular global warming, I wanted to show the effect the rise of sea level has on the world. The loss of land and breaking up of communities and cultures leaves us with an uncertain,…
Inspired by the landscape
The immense forces of earthquake and volcanic action over millions of years have formed the iconic strata of granite rocks. In this painting, ‘Mons Igneous’, this shattering, movement and repeated metamorphosis evokes an emotion of scale, instability and our smallness in relation to the hidden forces around us. We float, serenely on, upon our rocky…
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