Description
Landscape of Colours 3
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
35 × 45 cm
R3 800
Landscape of Colours 3 is a dramatic, expressive landscape charged with weather and colour. A dark, rolling cloud sweeps across a warm sky of cream and gold, streaked with a slash of red, while below it a range of deep blue and near-black hills settles into shadow. The foreground breaks into lively marks of orange, red, teal and ochre.
Julie Tugwell paints with energy and confidence, using palette knife and gestural strokes to build a textured, animated surface. The contrast between the luminous, warm sky and the brooding storm cloud gives the work its sense of drama, while the flashes of red and orange in the land carry the eye across the canvas. It reads as a landscape reduced to feeling, light and movement.
This is a striking, characterful painting that brings atmosphere and energy to an interior. Its bold colour and stormy mood make it a natural focal point in a living room, hallway or creative space, and it looks its best against a plain, neutral wall that lets the drama of the sky come forward. One of a series of colour landscapes that hang beautifully together.
Style
Julie Tugwell is a contemporary South African artist whose work shares qualities with expressive, painterly traditions and echoes the freedom of Fauvist colour, favouring energetic brushwork and an emotional response to her subject over strict realism. In her bolder landscapes she reduces a scene to its essential colour, texture and mood, working with palette knife and thick, gestural paint. She captures the vitality and atmosphere of a place rather than a literal likeness, creating original paintings that bring warmth, character and sophistication to contemporary interiors.
Please note: Images are provided as a guide to the artwork’s size and style. As each original painting is photographed under different lighting conditions and viewed on different screens, colours may vary slightly from the original artwork.
