COLOUR THEORY

Hello Everyone

WILL THERE BE SNOW?

I thought you might like to share with me the work of the world-renowned artist Peter Doig.

Known for his famous painting ‘WHITE OUT’ here Doig depicts a single figure, barely visible through the falling snow. With the delicate texture of its intensively applied dots of yellow and white building a Pointilist optical illusion, Doig captures the very elemental qualities of the atmospheric conditions created by snow.

Operating on the cusp of figuration and abstraction, ‘WHITE OUT’ evokes a sensory response from the onlooker. By juxtaposing white against yellow, Doig employs the same reductive colour theory as the Post-impressionists, imbuing pure light into the canvas.

On looking through the gallery records I unearthed an exquisite painting by Gerald Green; ‘L’Hiver, L’Hotel de Ville, Paris’, sold December 2011. ENJOY!