If
there was a world where you could select the best of an architect’s qualities -
their perspective, technical precision, spatial understanding, and give them to
a painter, a painter with their own unique sense of colour, style and vision, who
is able to create something beyond what is real and precise. Well, what an artist that would be.
Taidg’s landscapes are an exquisite
labour of love.
He works on large mdf panels, mapping out his
compositions using a micro tape grid
and then building layer upon layer of paint until
the work is complete.
Prince & Pilgrim October 2020.
Essentially I’m drawn to the Light, Colour,
and Texture of Materials of places I’ve been to, such as:
the colour and textures of the roofscapes of Siena,
the colours of the sky, sea and beaches along the coastlines of Cornwall,
Devon and Dorset on the SW Coast,
The Wild Atlantic Way on The West Coast of Ireland, and
the colours of the mountains and lakes in The Lake District.
Also, the random Figure Ground Patterns and play of light (Chiaroscuro) of places such as Siena or Venice.
Typically, I’ll see a view that catches my eye, and start to frame or compose it on my camera to see if it
captures the essence of the place as I see it.
Then, back in the studio, I’ll start to compose it by deciding on the overall
extent for the painting I have in mind, and, at the same time, breaking it
down, or sub dividing the view, into a series of vignettes, so as to capture
the overall Composition.
Then I take quite a broadbrush approach,
blocking out the colours as I see them, building up each colour by applying
layers of different colours, as opposed to the more traditional approach of
mixing them ‘off canvas’ as it were.
I find working with Emulsion Paint, I get both the fluidity of working
with watercolors and the richness of working with oil paints.
Exhibitions to
date:
2023, ARTBOX Project Zurich 5.0 over the Swiss Art Expo
2023, New English Art Club (NEAC) Annual Exhibition
2022, ARTBOX Project Miami 3.0 over Art Basel, Miami Art Week
2022, ARTBOX Project Zurich 4.0 over the Swiss Art Expo
2022, ARTBOX Project Venezia 1.0 over the Venice Biennale
2020, Prince & Pilgrim Group Exhibition
2019, Prince & Pilgrim Group Exhibition.
2019, Schroders Bank Art Sale.
