Glenn Davison | Recent Paintings
Title: Landscape
Oils and charcoal on textured reformed wood shavings board.
The industrial landscape of a road work sight in Hull, East Yorkshire.
I used a low in hue muddy pallet, to allow a moody vision. I am enriching the traffic cones with rich vermilion to give them the glory and show a one-way route we are all used to following daily. Sinister fencing blocks the usual way.
Title: Portrait
Oils and charcoal pencil on reformed wood shavings board.
Self-portrait capturing a lively cosmopolitan evening out at a Tapa’s bar.
Each contour and facial shade is interpreted by shape and line and really enjoyed painting each segment like a jigsaw puzzle slowly watching the painting come alive.
I used warm pale hues to enlighten the atmosphere.
Title: Live Portrait session
Oils on canvas.
Really enjoyed using a relaxed approach using big brushes and impressionistic marks.
Title: Live Portrait session (flower)
Oils on canvas
40-minute pose.
Title: Live Portrait session (Male)
Oils on canvas.
Created with just the use of a credit card to scrape, Dab and swirl the oil paints onto the canvas.
Title: Live Portrait session (glasses)
Oils on canvas.
I painted this by just using a debit card
(an expired one) to scrape, dab, and swirl the oil paints to make impressionistic markings.
The magic of artistic experimentation is that you never know what the end result will be
Glenn Davison | Words and Paintings 1
Title: Ardbeg Distillery
Oils on canvas.
Working from a photo.
The top picture is the photo I was given to create a large oil painting from and the bottom picture is the actual painting I did in oils.
I’ve done subtle changes with angles, lighting, and stronger hues.
When I’m asked to do a painting from a photo I look at what I can do to improve the image and in this case kept true to the original view.
Title: Whiskey distillery (cubistic)
Oils on canvas
I deepened the hues on the sky and its reflections to create an atmospheric view and deleted any forms of life form that were present.
For me, this takes away any distractions and allows the viewer to be at peace with one’s thoughts.
The near view I painted in an impressionistic cubistic style. This directs the eye to focus ahead into the distance.
Glenn Davison | Words and Paintings 2
Title ‘Amsterdam Voyage’
Oils on canvas.
Finished 30/11/20
‘It was a time not so long ago,
We peddled the cobbled streets we so very know.
Enjoying the views
and the romantic hues with rain turning to snow.
Dad with two of his sons,
drinking coffee and eating buns
Biking from pub to pub and downing the local rums.
Amsterdam’s our favourite place to be, with posh hotels and steak for tea.
Although papa was not well, with the joy on his face you could not tell.
Just a memory, a shot taken in time,
A healing moment with no pain nor crime’.
Title: Resurrection (2019)
Oils on canvas
Winner of Art Exhibition Whitton, Lincolnshire.
Painting Description:
The horse, an example of one of our planets beautiful life forms symbolizes mother nature.
As time progresses our long term future and existence looks bleek. We live in a society filled with greed and self motivation.
We often live our lives in a manner that is oblivious to the destruction we cause.
The pedegree horse stands proud but not in its usual habitat, it looks backwards upon a new born forest rising like a phoenix from its ashes returning to its former glory.
Its stands in nature’s wild woodland symbolising the beauty of life, celabrating an optimistic view. We can make that change, we can return our planet to its glory.
The warm light glowing through the trees shows hope.
It’s a wholeome picture, I want the viewer to see the good things we can do, the beauty we can bring back and preserve.
In time of uncertainty and of course the pandemic which brings a doom and gloom outlook to us all. I believe the method of making that change is to give hope to people instead of the usual blame.
Title: Resurrection (2022)
Oils on canvas
After analysing this oil painting which has been hung up in my living room, I have decided to tweak the lighting in the trees.
Some of my best works are never finished.
It’s great to return to a work as long as you are confident not to overwork it or erase any successful markings.
Title: The Meaning of Life and the Wizard Man’
Oils on canvas.
This oil painting comes with its own handwritten bible which is bound in leather and has an Engraved image of the tree of temptation.
The Painting is my journey and unraveling of the meaning of life. Understanding the magic of mother nature and theories about our success and failures during the process of evolution. Theories about human force and super spiritual powers that act as our control network.
There and many deep and meaningful depths and puzzles to this work.
Please click on the red button below to read a shortened version of the bible.
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