Original artwork description:
A pool scene based on a vintage postcard of a hotel pool in Palm Springs.
I am drawn to photographs of leisure scenes as well as vintage travel and holiday postcards from the 50s and 60s. I use these kinds of references, alongside my own personal bank of images, to make my paintings. I am attracted to the mix of nostalgia and ‘Luxe, Calme et Volupté’ in these depictions of leisure. Here is a place where people are partly naked, relaxed and often unaware of themselves; perhaps more ‘natural’ than in other situations.
Materials used:
acrylic on jacksons premium stretched canvas
Tags:
#vintage #swimming #california #pool #palm springsSun setting on Palm Springs (2013)
Painting
by Stephen Abela
18 Artist Reviews
£461.86 Sold
- Painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 76 x 59.99 x 0.99cm (unframed) / 76 x 59.99cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
A pool scene based on a vintage postcard of a hotel pool in Palm Springs.
I am drawn to photographs of leisure scenes as well as vintage travel and holiday postcards from the 50s and 60s. I use these kinds of references, alongside my own personal bank of images, to make my paintings. I am attracted to the mix of nostalgia and ‘Luxe, Calme et Volupté’ in these depictions of leisure. Here is a place where people are partly naked, relaxed and often unaware of themselves; perhaps more ‘natural’ than in other situations.
Materials used:
acrylic on jacksons premium stretched canvas
Tags:
#vintage #swimming #california #pool #palm springsReturns and refunds
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Artist Reviews (18)
This artwork is sold by Stephen Abela from Canada
Stephen Abela
Canada
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My recent work is almost summed up by a quote from the photographer, Slim Aarons: “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places. ’’ I am drawn to holiday and... Read more
