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An Artist's Garden
In The Artist’s Garden, Georgie Richardson continues her series of paintings exploring her own garden through the year.
These oil paintings, with their bold compositions, painterly vigour, and botanical expression, capture the tangle of the seasons as they build to the crescendo of high summer. Flowers jostle amongst vegetables, sweet peas tumble, cabbages fatten, buds wait to open, carrots sleep, tucked up in their blankets of earth - all set against the early morning haze, pink evening skies and summer twilight.
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There is a celebratory tone in this collection. Iris Time feels like a party, a sugary indulgence of summer, like a giant confection of sugared flowers next to glaucous plump leaves.
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Dreaming Garden with its inky midnight iris, like silk rags, are festooned with a climbing rose acting like bunting, celebrating the sheer joy of a summer’s day.
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A graduate of Fine Art Painting at Winchester School Of Art, Georgie Richardson doesn't have to go far to find inspiration. In her garden that surrounds her home and studio in the foothills of the Black Mountains in Herefordshire, the artist nurtures a careful balance between wildness and cultivation.
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Georgie Richardson is a master of colour, bringing to mind artists such as Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979), Henri Rousseau (1844 - 1910) and Cedric Morris (1889 - 1982) with his paintings of the garden at Benton End. Cedric Morris described himself as an ‘artist plantsman’ and the term ‘artist plantswomen’ could as easily be attributed to Georgie Richardson: “A very important part of my practice Is to take the time to really look at the flowers and insects, just doing what comes naturally, and then hope that seeps into my work.”
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Whilst Georgie Richardson paints with an expressive freedom, there is great skill and observation within her work that can only come from ‘looking’. She often places the viewpoint of the painting low down, almost in the earth, amongst the undergrowth, between iris, primroses and strawberries. You can almost smell the soil and feel the heat in these vibrant, dusky, saturated scenes.
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Georgie has managed to express the excitement and wonder of when you step into a garden and find the first strawberry, not yet ripe, sweet peas climbing, self seeded poppies, carrots ready to pull with nighttime scented star tobacco flowers above.
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These are meaty paintings, full of vigour. There is such energy in the brushstrokes, just look at the way Georgie paints the stalks at the base of this chard - the snap and crunch is almost audible.
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Or the tight scales of a young globe artichoke, there is flesh to Georgie's brushstrokes, delighting in the paint as much as the subject matter.
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