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Emma Cownie
Ireland
Artist highlights
- International Exposure
- Experienced Artist
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 18.1x21.7in
About this artwork
This urban minimal painting is a view of the length of Bernard Street, in Swansea, Wales, from the South end, looking towards Uplands.
It was quite hard to paint as I felt that I was trying to capture an absence. The light cuts across an empty road. When I saw this scene late on a Sunday evening in August I was struck by this emptiness, absence. No people. No cars, anywhere along its length.
Usually, there are cars outside the convenience store… halfway along the road, but it was closed. In term time the road is crammed with cars belonging to students, some who live in the streets that branch off from Bernard Street, some are parents dropping their children off at the local schools, some are passing tradespeople. Yet, on this summer evening there was no one. It was like a ghost town. This one image, more than any sums up the transient community that this and many other city areas have become.
It was quite hard to paint as I felt that I was trying to capture an absence. The light cuts across an empty road. When I saw this scene late on a Sunday evening in August I was struck by this emptiness, absence. No people. No cars, anywhere along its length.
Usually, there are cars outside the convenience store… halfway along the road, but it was closed. In term time the road is crammed with cars belonging to students, some who live in the streets that branch off from Bernard Street, some are parents dropping their children off at the local schools, some are passing tradespeople. Yet, on this summer evening there was no one. It was like a ghost town. This one image, more than any sums up the transient community that this and many other city areas have become.
Emma Cownie
Ireland
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Experienced Artist
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
« My work focuses on light and colour. I use vibrant but naturalistic colour to bring attention to the extraordinary beauty of both landscapes and everyday scenes. »
Emma Cownie is a talented British artist whose works have featured in exhibitions and publications across the UK. Always seeking to achieve a strong visual impact, she composes works marked by bold blocks of colour and an expressive palette that is widely used in modern art and pop art. Influenced by great American realists like Edward Hopper, Cownie paints the quiet, the spacious and the still.
Emma Cownie
Transient
$940
