"PARK WALK 8" (2018)Acrylic painting
by Frank Barnes

“Park Walk 8” is an acrylic painting 50x50 cms on primed canvas stretched over a wooden frame with steel corner braces. “Park Walk 8” is part of a series of eight paintings inspired by a familiar location and in keeping with similar paintings made at this time, focuses on memory and imagination.
The compositional arrangement makes reference to a park landscape and in this particular instance, a pathway between a wooded area. The painting has been preceded by drawings made on location. These drawings underpin the ‘park paintings’ which are now, perhaps, more literal in composition. This painting, like all of the ‘park paintings’, is concerned with the related dynamics of areas of colour separated by distinct divisions of deep shadow. The intensity of the August and early September light breaking through the wooded areas of the park are central to the composition of colour. There are clear reference points to Fauvism, (Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain and Raoul Dufy) abstract expressionism, and the semi-abstraction of Howard Hodgkin, Barbara Rae and Gillian Ayres.

Materials used:

Acrylic paint on canvas

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 50 x 50 x 1.75cm (unframed) / 50 x 50cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky