Serpentine

Serpentine

Oli Mumby

"Twas on a Starry Night"

Van Gogh X The Art Post

8 Limited Edition Greetings Cards

£11

£

300

29cm x 35cm

Pastel on mount board, unframed

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The Serpentine Lake, (Berrington Hall, Herefordshire) provided the inspiration for this pastel painting. My work is an exploration into colour and form. It is also concerned with the notion of a relationship or connection to a place and how, in turn, we observe and experience the aesthetics of the world around us. My intention is to invite the viewer to find beauty in the everyday. My paintings are often made by layering and blending colours and forms using pastel, coloured pencil and often collage, to create stylised depictions of my subjects.

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The inspiration

The Serpentine Lake, (Berrington Hall, Herefordshire) provided the inspiration for this pastel painting. My work is an exploration into colour and form. It is also concerned with the notion of a relationship or connection to a place and how, in turn, we observe and experience the aesthetics of the world around us. My intention is to invite the viewer to find beauty in the everyday. My paintings are often made by layering and blending colours and forms using pastel, coloured pencil and often collage, to create stylised depictions of my subjects.

About the artist

Oli’s work seeks to portray arresting figurative forms in a way that unlocks the viewer's imagination and perception of how the world around us is viewed, presented and re-presented. His aim is to encourage the viewer to question perception and aesthetics, to raise a smile in the mind. Oli is drawn to finding and re-presenting beauty in unexpected contexts - how often do we look at filling stations, industrial buildings or road markings and see beauty? Mumby’s work encourages the viewer to look, and more importantly see. In a bid to step away from realism and explore a more expressive and stylistic approach to figurative painting and mark-making, much of Oli’s recent work combines collage and paper cut with mixed media.

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