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‘Wind Over Fields’

'Wind Over Fields'

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MEETING, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 213 cm Thi

MEETING, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 213 cm

This picture was finished recently. It is a meeting of many elements that occur in other work in different media, such as curved and straight lines and areas covered with marks to give it texture.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #pattern #lines #markmaking

Studio still life with accidental mark making afte

Studio still life with accidental mark making after finishing work on another painting (see next post).

#johnhitchens #painter #studio #markmaking

PARTICLES ASSEMBLING, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 183

PARTICLES ASSEMBLING, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 183x102 cm

This is one of a group of pictures concerned with markmaking, building up a surface and texture and covering it all over with details.
There is no design, in the sense that the design is inherent, it's built in the process.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #pattern #markmaking #texture #design

Studio installation, Untitled (3484), c. 2000, pen

Studio installation, Untitled (3484), c. 2000, pen on oak, 20x30 cm / PARTICLE OVERLAY, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 52x47 cm / Painted Stone (P1150092), 2001, acrylic on stone, 21x16x11 cm

The three works are connected by an interest in mark making, in creating a surface and a texture and an ambient environment.
There is no deliberate design, it is inherent in the process.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #pattern #nature #markmaking

RED FIELD AND FROST, 2021, acrylic, pen and ink on

RED FIELD AND FROST, 2021, acrylic, pen and ink on card, 81x112cm

The picture is part of a series of drawings started in autumn last year.
Here, I have reversed elements of the earlier pictures, contrasting white lines against a dark background.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #drawing #sussex #lines #pattern #fields #frost #britishart #abstractart

Untitled (4623), 1997, oak wood, 174 x 50 cm A fr

Untitled (4623), 1997, oak wood, 174 x 50 cm
A frosty morning outside the studio – the sculpture is one of several larger oak wood pieces made during the 1990s.
Elements of these works are often linked to recurring themes in my paintings, such as the curved line or the detail in the texture of the wood.

#johnhitchens #artist #painter #landscape #nature #britishart #abstractart #sculpture #wood

WET SAND PAINTING (2199), c. 2004, C-type colour p

WET SAND PAINTING (2199), c. 2004, C-type colour print (edition of five), 28 x 41 cm
Works with sand took another form between 2003 and 2005, by combining painting and my interest in photography.
This is one of a series of ‘wet sand paintings’ made by pouring liquid poster paint on a sandy beach during an outgoing tide.
Water and paint in constant flow leave only seconds to capture a composition. The size of the area covered in this picture is c. 2 x 3 ft.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #photography #sandscape #print

LAYERED LAND II, 2012, oil on canvas, 177x214.5 cm

LAYERED LAND II, 2012, oil on canvas, 177x214.5 cm / detail

Elements of the work from the 1990s, with natural sands and stones, have influenced later paintings of imagined sections of land with strata of rock and matter underlying the patchwork of fields.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #fields #pattern #land

Untitled, 1993, natural sands and PVA on canvas, 2

Untitled, 1993, natural sands and PVA on canvas, 208 x 94 cm

This is one of a series of works made during the 1990s, using sands of different colours excavated in the immediate environment of the studio.
The effect visual of these layers resonates in several later paintings, such as Layered Land I and II.

#johnhitchens #painter #britishart #shapes #pattern #contemporaryart #abstractart #landscape #southdowns #sussex #sand

Untitled, 1992, 51x153cm, sands, PVA on board and

Untitled, 1992, 51x153cm, sands, PVA on board and canvas / Untitled, 1992, 140x127cm, peat, sand and PVA on canvas / View of the Courtyard Studio, c. 1992

Earth, in a wider sense, is the subject of a series of works in the 1990s. Many of them remain untitled and in storage.
Their essential components, the use of materials, colours and forms occurring in nature, resurface in many paintings in the following years.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #forms #nature #collage #sand #studio

EARTH LIGHT, c. 2000, oil on canvas, 202x167 cm T

EARTH LIGHT, c. 2000, oil on canvas, 202x167 cm

The last picture for 2020 - wishing everyone a happier New Year.

The exhibition 'Wind over Fields' @felixandspear will reopen as soon as the current restrictions are lifted (link in bio).

#johnhitchens #britishart #painter #landscape #abstractart #exhibition #earth #light

CYCLONIC INCURSION, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 71 x

CYCLONIC INCURSION, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 71 x 183 cm
Weather conditions have often influenced on my work.
The early landscapes were painted with large skies, fast moving clouds and changing light.
Wind and weather is also reflected in a different form in the more recent, studio-based work.

#johnhitchens #painter #britishart #abstractart #21stcentury #nature #weather #wind

THREE, 1997, oak wood, 86X86cm / Sketch from the W

THREE, 1997, oak wood, 86X86cm / Sketch from the Waddington Diaries, 1986, watercolour, 22x22 cm / TEGLEAZE WINTER'S EDGE, 1986, oil on canvas, 51x152cm

A frosty morning, outside the studio:
trees with multiple trunks occur in many of my paintings and in some sculptures.
In pictures, I use their V-shapes as strong verticals to balance the nearer horizontal foreground and the softer lines of the distant background.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #sussex #nature #trees

LOCH TORRIDON, SNOW CLOUDS, 1971, oil on canvas 43

LOCH TORRIDON, SNOW CLOUDS, 1971, oil on canvas 43x151.5 cm
CLOUDS AND FIELDS, 2020, acrylic, pen and ink, 81 x 112cm
A long view of the work of more than 50 years reveals an underlying pattern in the images, from early cloudscapes to recent drawings that take as their motif, observed and memorised aspects of landscape.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #clouds #patterns #Scotland

LINES HORIZONTAL No. 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 61x18

LINES HORIZONTAL No. 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 61x183cm
There is no direct link between this painting and features in the landscape. The lines could refer to field patterns, stems of bracken or dyed and woven wool.
After my transition from working outdoors and in front of the subject to becoming a studio-based artist, the studio and objects collected in it became another influence on my work.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #lines #fields #pattern #southdowns #colour

STICK LINES, c. 2010, album of photographs, 25x20c

STICK LINES, c. 2010, album of photographs, 25x20cm on 29.5x212.5cm

Photography has always been a way of recording observations, besides keeping diaries and sketchbooks. With the rise of digital photography and the ease of manipulating images on computer, the number of my photo albums has grown considerably.
I would never paint directly from any of these images, but they serve as a store of ideas.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #nature #patterns #photography

FIELD WEAVE, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213x53 cm /

FIELD WEAVE, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213x53 cm / Detail
One of several recent works that are influenced by similarities between the patterns of woven fabrics and field patterns in the surrounding landscape of the South Downs.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #fields #pattern #weaving #southdowns

External #installation view of #johnhitchens new #

External #installation view of #johnhitchens new #exhibition @felixandspear in #Ealing, West London, open until January 31st.

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MEETING, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 213 cm Thi

MEETING, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 213 cm

This picture was finished recently. It is a meeting of many elements that occur in other work in different media, such as curved and straight lines and areas covered with marks to give it texture.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #pattern #lines #markmaking

Studio still life with accidental mark making afte

Studio still life with accidental mark making after finishing work on another painting (see next post).

#johnhitchens #painter #studio #markmaking

PARTICLES ASSEMBLING, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 183

PARTICLES ASSEMBLING, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 183x102 cm

This is one of a group of pictures concerned with markmaking, building up a surface and texture and covering it all over with details.
There is no design, in the sense that the design is inherent, it's built in the process.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #pattern #markmaking #texture #design

Studio installation, Untitled (3484), c. 2000, pen

Studio installation, Untitled (3484), c. 2000, pen on oak, 20x30 cm / PARTICLE OVERLAY, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 52x47 cm / Painted Stone (P1150092), 2001, acrylic on stone, 21x16x11 cm

The three works are connected by an interest in mark making, in creating a surface and a texture and an ambient environment.
There is no deliberate design, it is inherent in the process.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #pattern #nature #markmaking

RED FIELD AND FROST, 2021, acrylic, pen and ink on

RED FIELD AND FROST, 2021, acrylic, pen and ink on card, 81x112cm

The picture is part of a series of drawings started in autumn last year.
Here, I have reversed elements of the earlier pictures, contrasting white lines against a dark background.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #drawing #sussex #lines #pattern #fields #frost #britishart #abstractart

Untitled (4623), 1997, oak wood, 174 x 50 cm A fr

Untitled (4623), 1997, oak wood, 174 x 50 cm
A frosty morning outside the studio – the sculpture is one of several larger oak wood pieces made during the 1990s.
Elements of these works are often linked to recurring themes in my paintings, such as the curved line or the detail in the texture of the wood.

#johnhitchens #artist #painter #landscape #nature #britishart #abstractart #sculpture #wood

WET SAND PAINTING (2199), c. 2004, C-type colour p

WET SAND PAINTING (2199), c. 2004, C-type colour print (edition of five), 28 x 41 cm
Works with sand took another form between 2003 and 2005, by combining painting and my interest in photography.
This is one of a series of ‘wet sand paintings’ made by pouring liquid poster paint on a sandy beach during an outgoing tide.
Water and paint in constant flow leave only seconds to capture a composition. The size of the area covered in this picture is c. 2 x 3 ft.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #photography #sandscape #print

LAYERED LAND II, 2012, oil on canvas, 177x214.5 cm

LAYERED LAND II, 2012, oil on canvas, 177x214.5 cm / detail

Elements of the work from the 1990s, with natural sands and stones, have influenced later paintings of imagined sections of land with strata of rock and matter underlying the patchwork of fields.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #fields #pattern #land

Untitled, 1993, natural sands and PVA on canvas, 2

Untitled, 1993, natural sands and PVA on canvas, 208 x 94 cm

This is one of a series of works made during the 1990s, using sands of different colours excavated in the immediate environment of the studio.
The effect visual of these layers resonates in several later paintings, such as Layered Land I and II.

#johnhitchens #painter #britishart #shapes #pattern #contemporaryart #abstractart #landscape #southdowns #sussex #sand

Untitled, 1992, 51x153cm, sands, PVA on board and

Untitled, 1992, 51x153cm, sands, PVA on board and canvas / Untitled, 1992, 140x127cm, peat, sand and PVA on canvas / View of the Courtyard Studio, c. 1992

Earth, in a wider sense, is the subject of a series of works in the 1990s. Many of them remain untitled and in storage.
Their essential components, the use of materials, colours and forms occurring in nature, resurface in many paintings in the following years.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #forms #nature #collage #sand #studio

EARTH LIGHT, c. 2000, oil on canvas, 202x167 cm T

EARTH LIGHT, c. 2000, oil on canvas, 202x167 cm

The last picture for 2020 - wishing everyone a happier New Year.

The exhibition 'Wind over Fields' @felixandspear will reopen as soon as the current restrictions are lifted (link in bio).

#johnhitchens #britishart #painter #landscape #abstractart #exhibition #earth #light

CYCLONIC INCURSION, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 71 x

CYCLONIC INCURSION, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 71 x 183 cm
Weather conditions have often influenced on my work.
The early landscapes were painted with large skies, fast moving clouds and changing light.
Wind and weather is also reflected in a different form in the more recent, studio-based work.

#johnhitchens #painter #britishart #abstractart #21stcentury #nature #weather #wind

THREE, 1997, oak wood, 86X86cm / Sketch from the W

THREE, 1997, oak wood, 86X86cm / Sketch from the Waddington Diaries, 1986, watercolour, 22x22 cm / TEGLEAZE WINTER'S EDGE, 1986, oil on canvas, 51x152cm

A frosty morning, outside the studio:
trees with multiple trunks occur in many of my paintings and in some sculptures.
In pictures, I use their V-shapes as strong verticals to balance the nearer horizontal foreground and the softer lines of the distant background.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #sussex #nature #trees

LOCH TORRIDON, SNOW CLOUDS, 1971, oil on canvas 43

LOCH TORRIDON, SNOW CLOUDS, 1971, oil on canvas 43x151.5 cm
CLOUDS AND FIELDS, 2020, acrylic, pen and ink, 81 x 112cm
A long view of the work of more than 50 years reveals an underlying pattern in the images, from early cloudscapes to recent drawings that take as their motif, observed and memorised aspects of landscape.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #clouds #patterns #Scotland

LINES HORIZONTAL No. 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 61x18

LINES HORIZONTAL No. 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 61x183cm
There is no direct link between this painting and features in the landscape. The lines could refer to field patterns, stems of bracken or dyed and woven wool.
After my transition from working outdoors and in front of the subject to becoming a studio-based artist, the studio and objects collected in it became another influence on my work.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #lines #fields #pattern #southdowns #colour

STICK LINES, c. 2010, album of photographs, 25x20c

STICK LINES, c. 2010, album of photographs, 25x20cm on 29.5x212.5cm

Photography has always been a way of recording observations, besides keeping diaries and sketchbooks. With the rise of digital photography and the ease of manipulating images on computer, the number of my photo albums has grown considerably.
I would never paint directly from any of these images, but they serve as a store of ideas.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #nature #patterns #photography

FIELD WEAVE, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213x53 cm /

FIELD WEAVE, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213x53 cm / Detail
One of several recent works that are influenced by similarities between the patterns of woven fabrics and field patterns in the surrounding landscape of the South Downs.

#johnhitchens #painter #landscape #britishart #abstractart #fields #pattern #weaving #southdowns

External #installation view of #johnhitchens new #

External #installation view of #johnhitchens new #exhibition @felixandspear in #Ealing, West London, open until January 31st.

Load More… Follow on Instagram

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