| Everard
Longland |
Everard
read Modern Languages at university and taught at Colchester Royal Grammar
School for many years, but
he always wanted to spend more time painting. He was able to do this
during a sabbatical year in Santa Barbara, California in the early 1990s
and has not looked back since. He has had a number of exhibitions and his
work is in private collections wherever he has travelled. |
 Watercolour
is his choice of medium touching on many themes, but flowers are
paramount. The artist lives and paints in Wivenhoe, spending part of each
year in Southern California whose light maybe influences his choice of
colour. He says of his flower paintings:
"It almost seems an affront to paint flowers; to try to represent such
perfect forms and colour; yet it would be a shame to avoid some
recollection of their visual impact. In this vein, I attempt the
delicacies of floral art through shape, pattern, tone, line, association
and discovery; not avoiding the botanical but neither being a slave to
natural forms, since illusion is the painter's tool. Watercolour lends
itself to the translucency of petals; and its stubborn unwillingness to
follow the brush always adds that dynamic magic which is the essence of a
flower."
Everard
Longland, 10 Queens Road, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9JH Tel: 01206
822949 E-mail:
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