About Doug Eaton
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2007
h-Art Rehau Prize
In 2007 Doug received the Rehau prize in the h-Art Open Exhibition
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Biography
I
think I've always been interested in what paint does and hopefully have
applied it in as many different ways as my imagination will allow. I
have always been aware of a "painterly look" over and above a clinical
rendition of anything. I don't mind the odd dribble here or there if
only to remind the onlooker that it is paint at the end of the day.
Logically,
I should therefore be entirely abstract, but instead I lean towards
landscape type themes to hang paint on. Although I've done my fair
share of traditional looking paintings I am currently trying to be more
fundamental in my approach to try and produce a strong result from
lines, shapes and colours which combined in some way evoke a landscape,
usually based on the Forest of Dean, which I find to be quite a
particular landscape.
I tend to be interested in extremes, soft against hard edge, dark against light, hot against cold etc. and try to marry them together. I try to use a minimum of information for the onlooker to suggest the subject - hopefully, then the seemingly random paint begins to make sense, or alternatively, but with equal importance, the seemingly "random" paint will remain as paint and be enjoyed for itself.
I tend to be interested in extremes, soft against hard edge, dark against light, hot against cold etc. and try to marry them together. I try to use a minimum of information for the onlooker to suggest the subject - hopefully, then the seemingly random paint begins to make sense, or alternatively, but with equal importance, the seemingly "random" paint will remain as paint and be enjoyed for itself.
