David Campbell

Love in the Mist

104 × 104 cm

Oil on Canvas

Closing: Thu, 19 Nov, 8 pm AEDT

4d 18h 15m

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About the work

Love in the Mist is a haunting soft representation of coastal landscapes reflecting emotions and the notion of memory. The hues slowly graduate down the canvas allowing the viewers eye to travel around the painting drawing its own conclusions. The small mark in the centre of the horizon allows the eye to rest and gradually allow the brain to digest what its feeling. Its a striking but soft rendition of emotions inspired by the sea and land. Hand stretched 12oz canvas elegantly float framed in oak.

About the artist

The journey begins with the spirit of place and continues with the gathering and assemblage of raw materials to suit each painting. From conception to exhibition David ensures a rhythm is established so each step of the process is aligned. David Campbell is a contemporary visual artist living and working in Bermagui on Djiringanj Country of the Yuin Nation. Bermagui is a beautiful seaside community located on the South East Coast of NSW, Australia. David is a painter of landscape and still life. The coastal environment provides endless inspiration for the landscape work. The process explores the notions of pareidolia and ambiguity within the landscape through colour and form. The choice of brush or pallet knife is a deliberate one that allows for the element of chance to influence the direction of the painting. It’s the interaction between the tools, the medium and the surface that allows for life in the subject. The choice to paint Still Life provides an ideal complement to Landscape painting. Painting Still Life creates an opportunity to explore in a consciously constructed formality of objects in space. The differences between the two genres are both explicit and nuanced and they provoke and extend creative practice in limitless ways.

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