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Art & Nature Series: Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm SasnalUntitled (2010) The artist, filmmaker, photographer, and illustrator Wilhelm Sasnal creates graphic and atmospheric paintings culminating inspiration from daily life, media, and art history. The subdued nature of his work is heavily influenced by gothic imagery from the visual culture of the music he grew up on. The artist became tired of the pretentiousness…

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Art & Nature Series: Anna Bjerger

Anna Bjerger – Acid/Creek (2018) Anna Bjerger’s process uses photographs from her collection of books as references. She talks about how, as a child she was always interested about what was happening in the background of the main protagonist.By using photos she rescues images “that would otherwise disappear” and re-contextualises them through the physicality of…

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Art & Nature Series: Mamma Andersson

Mamma Andersson constructs cinematic scenes – showing the full spectrum of Nordic landscapes. Her use of colour is reactionary, favouring both expressive blocks of colour along with almost translucent tints. This build-up of colour creates a depth of colour and atmosphere.Andersson is unafraid to have large areas of black, immediately catching your eye. She threads…

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Art & Nature Series: Nigel Cooke

Nigel CookeArtist’s Garden 2 (2018)“I’ve reached a point where I feel I want something to be democratic in terms of interpretation. The work is like a screen that is available for projection.” Nigel Cooke achieves this elusive in between of figuration and abstraction, which leads to works that are open to viewer’s interpretation of what…

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Art & Nature Series: Emily a

Emily Carr’s living, moving paintings are infused with such joy and love for the land she depicts. Her location on the Pacific west coast of Canada captures an image of the underrepresented indigenous cultural monuments and art of the first people, who she practically lived with and was given the nickname ‘The Laughing One’.Emily CarrYoung…

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Art & Nature Series: April Gornik

“I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful” – April GornikGornik’s incredibly immersive works that use “light as the protagonist” to create dreamlike…

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Art & Nature Series: Bada Shanren

Bada Shanren (Born Zhu Da) is arguably one of the most influential Chinese artists as he was a radical innovator for his time. From childhood the artist was seen as a child prodigy, painting and writing poetry from an early age and in later life combining the two in his work. Due to his status…

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Art & Nature Series: Claude Monet

Claude Monet’s magnificent Water Lilies series (1914 – 1926) are some of his most famous works as Monet repeatedly depicts his beloved garden which he treated as a work of art alone, calling it his “finest masterpiece.” Working in the Impressionist style, Monet focuses on the experiential feeling and optical pleasure of nature with colourful…

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Art and Nature Series: John Constable

“Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring”There is no one able to reproduce the heat of the mid-day sun, sound of a summer breeze, or the cool of the shade cast across a panoramic view than John Constable. ‘Hampstead Heath, with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’ (1819-20) is…

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Art and Nature Series: Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculptures are able to capture the essence of a landscape in abstract form. The interactive nature of ‘Three Obliques, (Walk-in)’ (1968) allows viewers to experience the art’s surroundings with a new perspective, both by immersing themselves in the sculpture’s presence as well as the viewfinder framed by looking through the work.Her remarkable…

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