Original artwork description
Walking around East London I have sometimes been struck by the beauty and strangeness of empty spaces on housing estates. The four or five-story high blocks of flats dating back to the 1930’s or 50’s sit on all four sides of a minimally designed public space, a piece of grass with no landscaping is dissected by a path leading out onto a street. In the middle of the bustling modern city, these spaces are tranquil but not private - they are looked over by a hundred windows, however in these empty courtyards of grass the people looking out from their windows are looking at nothing much, really it is a functional space, a patch of grass and shrubs that need minimal maintenance and a path to take you from A to B.
When I made this painting I began with the empty square and then put in foreground trees, next pillars of smoke began to emerge purely improvised and next a figure. I was thinking about how smoke rises and shapes itself into strange forms as it moves upwards there is a suggestion of broken furniture and an abandoned bike in the ashes of the fire.
Materials used:
oil paint
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 238 x 183 x 4cm (unframed) / 283 x 183cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#fine art#london city#ashes#smoke fire#london artist#calming and#silence shapes#housing estates#courtyard gardens
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Original artwork description
Walking around East London I have sometimes been struck by the beauty and strangeness of empty spaces on housing estates. The four or five-story high blocks of flats dating back to the 1930’s or 50’s sit on all four sides of a minimally designed public space, a piece of grass with no landscaping is dissected by a path leading out onto a street. In the middle of the bustling modern city, these spaces are tranquil but not private - they are looked over by a hundred windows, however in these empty courtyards of grass the people looking out from their windows are looking at nothing much, really it is a functional space, a patch of grass and shrubs that need minimal maintenance and a path to take you from A to B.
When I made this painting I began with the empty square and then put in foreground trees, next pillars of smoke began to emerge purely improvised and next a figure. I was thinking about how smoke rises and shapes itself into strange forms as it moves upwards there is a suggestion of broken furniture and an abandoned bike in the ashes of the fire.
Materials used:
oil paint
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 238 x 183 x 4cm (unframed) / 283 x 183cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#fine art#london city#ashes#smoke fire#london artist#calming and#silence shapes#housing estates#courtyard gardens
Frank Creber
United Kingdom
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