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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 55.9x38.2in
About this artwork
Picasso once said when asked about his inspiration "I don't seek, I find". Not that I would ever claim to be in the same league as Picasso, but I too am fortunate to find inspiration without looking for it. I had an idea to paint an image of a girl at dusk, when as the daylight fades the lights of candles begin to glow. Somehow she ended up in a lake - I don't know why, but I just trusted my intuition that this was how it ought to be. Without the…
goodwill and fortitude of my model I would never have gathered the information to enable me to paint the picture. Although it was a calm summer's evening the candles kept blowing out and took crucial minutes to re-light. It became so dark that the flash began to fire on my camera. I cancelled the flash as soon as I realised but when I looked at the photographs I found that I preferred the way the flash illuminated the lilies in the foreground.
Neil Moore
United Kingdom
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Experienced Artist
« There are only two great subjects that, sooner or later, an artist has to confront: love and death. Having embraced them, everything else seems trivial. »
Neil Moore is an experienced painter and draftsman based in the United Kingdom whose works have been exhibited in England and the United States. Finding people endlessly fascinating and inspiring, he employs art as a means to explore the questions that arise from life experiences. Moore's figurative compositions are created in a distinctive and representational style with oils on canvas.
Neil Moore
Tenebrae
$11,950