Description

The Owls Secret Garden is a 48x48x1.5
inches very large oil painting on canvas of a secret garden with wild flowers
and a white barn owl flying over a sparkling green lake. It is semi abstract in
style and was made by building up many layers of colour and then blurring them
with a soft brush to make the paint thick and vibrant and quite intense. It was
inspired by a walk I took around some fishing lakes near the Edenbridge area
during 2020 lockdown. It was a place normally quite busy but was instead
deserted except for birds and animals who had taken over. The green lakes and
ponds had wild flowers growing at the edges and these included some sweet peas
and wild roses which the flowers are loosely based on. There were shafts of
sunlight coming through the woodland and trees around the lakes making the
water sparkle. It looked and felt like a secret garden and that feeling is what
I tried to capture. The owl was not there but I felt she should have been so I
painted her anyway. This is a large canvas and due to the techniques I use there
are brush hairs in the paint as well the odd dandelion spore and other summer
dust motes which floated in through the attic window as I painted. I personally
like this as it captures and holds a bit of summer within the paint forever.
The edges of the canvas are white and it is ready to hang. https://youtu.be/TXsB-3KvjYU