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SKETCHES FOR A LANDSCAPE SYMPHONY, c.1977, Conté, SKETCHES FOR A LANDSCAPE SYMPHONY, c.1977, Conté, 50.5 x 77 cm There is a sense of coherence and continuity in approaching to the subject of landscape over many decades and across different media, from sketches, to collages, paintings in oil and acrylic or painted objects. Both the book ‘Aspects of Landscape’ and the current retrospective @southamptoncityartgallery attempt to highlight that aspect in their selection of works. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #sketch #southdowns #sussex #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
Detail - FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, Detail - FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 53.5 cm
FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 53. FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 53.5 cm A concern with the geometries of line, circle and dot went parallel with a shift in colour values. Recent works use the restricted palette of browns, reds, yellows, black and white of natural dies woven into well-made patterns, to give unity, calm and strength. The monograph ‘Aspects of Landscape’ and the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery feature several of these recent paintings. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #circle #colour #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
OCTOBER FIELD, 2015, acrylic on ash wood, 46 x 46 OCTOBER FIELD, 2015, acrylic on ash wood, 46 x 46 x 17 cm Patterns and lines in fields account for a motif that occurs repeatedly in both paintings and in ‘painted objects’, such as the ash wood series. In the same way as a circle is a ‘wrapped up’ line, these are just ‘wrapped up’ paintings. Why should a painting be something with four corners that one can hang on a wall? The work is features in the exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery and in the book that accompanies the retrospective. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #field #pattern #wood #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
LAND WAVE, 2011, oil on canvas, 110 x 184 cm Somet LAND WAVE, 2011, oil on canvas, 110 x 184 cm Sometimes I use the dots (rather than brush strokes) just to fill an area, at other times I cluster them purposefully. When I put a second layer (of dots) on top, they are filling in spaces, like dots in newspaper print. All the time you are building – but not with reckless movements, you are composing as you go. ‘Land Wave’ features in the monograph ‘Aspects of Landscape’ that accompanies the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #fields #dots #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
STUDIO VIEW, 2018, with WIND OVER FIELDS, 2017, an STUDIO VIEW, 2018, with WIND OVER FIELDS, 2017, and SECOND LIFE, 2016. In recent years, the broad brushstrokes of the earlier landscape paintings were replaced by quantities of dots and lines. They gave both colour and tone and a visually calm yet positive texture (rather than an active painted surface). Both paintings are exhibited in the current retrospective ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #dots #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
FIVE LINKED ELEMENTS, 2012, oil on canvas, 110 x 2 FIVE LINKED ELEMENTS, 2012, oil on canvas, 110 x 220 cm After the 1990s the work with canvas and wood slowly got richer in content, and so I arrived back on medium or large canvases with construction designs that still referenced the landscape connection, but with the brushstrokes replaced by quantities of lines and dots. ‘Five Linked Elements’ is one of a series of recent paintings that are part of the retrospective ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #fields #line #composition #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
EARTH, 1991, oil and spirit pen on canvas, 71 x 86 EARTH, 1991, oil and spirit pen on canvas, 71 x 86.5 cm The early 1990s were a period of exploration. The newly covered courtyard studio at home allowed me to work on large-scale paintings in bright flat colour that developed the ‘musicality of line and form’. Much of this work evolved from earlier smaller gouaches with designs that still referenced the landscape connection. The current exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery shows paintings from that period in Gallery 2. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #composition #colour #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
COLLAGES and SHELL No.2, 1990s, oyster shells and COLLAGES and SHELL No.2, 1990s, oyster shells and stones, various sizes A series of works done during the early 1990s with found objects from the shore in #Selsey. Collages, sculpture, land art and drawings are all extensions to the many paintings that relate to similar forms in the landscape. Other works from that period feature in the book ‘Aspects of Landscape’ and in the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns#sussex #shore #nature #line #circle #composition #onlineexhibition #landart #foundobjects #stones #collage #sculpture #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
SOLAR STONES, No.2, 1991, acrylic and oil on canva SOLAR STONES, No.2, 1991, acrylic and oil on canvas, 152.5 x 152.5 cm This painting belongs to the same period as the works in wood. Both use compositions with circles and lines as complimentary elements and basic forms in nature and culture. The picture features in the book ‘Aspects of Landscape’ that accompanies the current #exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #circle #form #composition #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
LIFETOWER, 1995, beechwood, 206 x 71 cm One of the LIFETOWER, 1995, beechwood, 206 x 71 cm One of the wooden sculptures of the 1990s in the grounds of the studio. The subject of circles and lines is typical for that period. Compositions using lines, circles and stacked circles (with the stack serving as a line in the middle), are also used in installations and in paintings. The work features in the book 'Aspects of Landscape' that accompanies the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #circle #onlineexhibition #wood #sculpture #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
A view of the current exhibition ‘Aspects of Lan A view of the current exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery : #Gallery 1 , with PAINTED WOODES BLADES, 2007, oil or acrylic on wood, 150 to 240cm A range of three-dimensional works was created from the 1990s onwards. Painting, works in land- and installation art and sculpture came to influence each other. The series of painted wooden blades is part of this more recent work. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #wood #painting #sculpture #colour #pattern #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
SKETCHES FOR PAINTED COLUMNS, 1995, pen on paper, SKETCHES FOR PAINTED COLUMNS, 1995, pen on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm The influence of weaving became evident in my work from the 1990s onwards. The lines in these sketches similarly correspond with bands of sedimentary rocks, and the bands of textures in weaving. Ideas from this period were later used in three-dimensional works, such as the painted wooden blades that are part of the current exhibitions @southamptoncityartgallery and @moncrieffbray . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #line #exhibition #gallery #sketches #weaving #wood #texture #painting #sculpture #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
FIELD LINE GRID No.2, 2007, acrylic on plywood, 46 FIELD LINE GRID No.2, 2007, acrylic on plywood, 46 x 36 cm This picture looks not only at landscape as a pattern of lines and crossing lines as in woven fabric, it also uses an unevenly shaped outer form. The idea was first taken up in the 1990s and developed since then in several ways, also for stretching canvases over the plywood shapes and adding texture the canvas. Similar work from that period is part of the current exhibition 'Aspects of Landscape' @southamptoncityartgallery #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #lines #onlineexhibition #painting #pattern #shape #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
WEALDEN FIELD DISTANCE, 1975, oil on canvas, 61 x WEALDEN FIELD DISTANCE, 1975, oil on canvas, 61 x 91.5 cm The landscape of the South Downs and the view of the Weald, both close the studio, are recurring subjects over many decades. There is a coherence and continuity between paintings of the 1970 and much more recent work. Several of these early pictures are displayed in #galleries 3 and 4 @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #weald #sussex #nature #lines #shapes #composition #onlineexhibition #colour #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape
FIELD FOLD, 2016, oil on canvas. 46 x 46 cm (x 2) FIELD FOLD, 2016, oil on canvas. 46 x 46 cm (x 2) Like the previous two posts this is one of the more recent paintings. The work is now studio based, but the subject matter, shapes and patterns in the landscape, remains the same as in many of the earlier paintings of views of the South Downs and Duncton Hill. Paintings from both periods feature in the current retrospective ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery and in the book that accompanies the exhibition. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #fields #shapes # patterns #onlineexhibition #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
Studio view with ANOTHER JOURNEY, 2015. The dishe Studio view with ANOTHER JOURNEY, 2015. The dished fibre form at the centre is painted on both sides. On the reverse, the convex side, is ‘Harbour’ (featured in the previous post). Both works are characteristic for more recent work that uses irregular shapes or three-dimensional forms as a basis for paintings. Their subject matter does still relate to different aspects of landscape. Examples of similar work are displayed in the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery and in the recently reopened @moncrieffbray #gallery. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #onlineexhibition #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
HARBOUR, 2015, acrylic on dished fibre form, 130 x HARBOUR, 2015, acrylic on dished fibre form, 130 x 150 cm This one of a long series of works, dating back to the 1960s, that are dealing with the subject of coastal landscapes. ‘Harbour’ is unusual in that its dish-shaped fibre form is painted on both sides. The picture on the reverse is ‘Another Journey’. Several paintings relating to the subject feature in the current exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery and in the book the that accompanies the current retrospective. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #coast #circle #harbour #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
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SKETCHES FOR A LANDSCAPE SYMPHONY, c.1977, Conté, SKETCHES FOR A LANDSCAPE SYMPHONY, c.1977, Conté, 50.5 x 77 cm There is a sense of coherence and continuity in approaching to the subject of landscape over many decades and across different media, from sketches, to collages, paintings in oil and acrylic or painted objects. Both the book ‘Aspects of Landscape’ and the current retrospective @southamptoncityartgallery attempt to highlight that aspect in their selection of works. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #sketch #southdowns #sussex #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
Detail - FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, Detail - FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 53.5 cm
FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 53. FIELD VERTICAL, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 53.5 cm A concern with the geometries of line, circle and dot went parallel with a shift in colour values. Recent works use the restricted palette of browns, reds, yellows, black and white of natural dies woven into well-made patterns, to give unity, calm and strength. The monograph ‘Aspects of Landscape’ and the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery feature several of these recent paintings. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #circle #colour #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
OCTOBER FIELD, 2015, acrylic on ash wood, 46 x 46 OCTOBER FIELD, 2015, acrylic on ash wood, 46 x 46 x 17 cm Patterns and lines in fields account for a motif that occurs repeatedly in both paintings and in ‘painted objects’, such as the ash wood series. In the same way as a circle is a ‘wrapped up’ line, these are just ‘wrapped up’ paintings. Why should a painting be something with four corners that one can hang on a wall? The work is features in the exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery and in the book that accompanies the retrospective. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #field #pattern #wood #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
LAND WAVE, 2011, oil on canvas, 110 x 184 cm Somet LAND WAVE, 2011, oil on canvas, 110 x 184 cm Sometimes I use the dots (rather than brush strokes) just to fill an area, at other times I cluster them purposefully. When I put a second layer (of dots) on top, they are filling in spaces, like dots in newspaper print. All the time you are building – but not with reckless movements, you are composing as you go. ‘Land Wave’ features in the monograph ‘Aspects of Landscape’ that accompanies the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #fields #dots #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
STUDIO VIEW, 2018, with WIND OVER FIELDS, 2017, an STUDIO VIEW, 2018, with WIND OVER FIELDS, 2017, and SECOND LIFE, 2016. In recent years, the broad brushstrokes of the earlier landscape paintings were replaced by quantities of dots and lines. They gave both colour and tone and a visually calm yet positive texture (rather than an active painted surface). Both paintings are exhibited in the current retrospective ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #dots #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
FIVE LINKED ELEMENTS, 2012, oil on canvas, 110 x 2 FIVE LINKED ELEMENTS, 2012, oil on canvas, 110 x 220 cm After the 1990s the work with canvas and wood slowly got richer in content, and so I arrived back on medium or large canvases with construction designs that still referenced the landscape connection, but with the brushstrokes replaced by quantities of lines and dots. ‘Five Linked Elements’ is one of a series of recent paintings that are part of the retrospective ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #fields #line #composition #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
EARTH, 1991, oil and spirit pen on canvas, 71 x 86 EARTH, 1991, oil and spirit pen on canvas, 71 x 86.5 cm The early 1990s were a period of exploration. The newly covered courtyard studio at home allowed me to work on large-scale paintings in bright flat colour that developed the ‘musicality of line and form’. Much of this work evolved from earlier smaller gouaches with designs that still referenced the landscape connection. The current exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery shows paintings from that period in Gallery 2. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #composition #colour #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
COLLAGES and SHELL No.2, 1990s, oyster shells and COLLAGES and SHELL No.2, 1990s, oyster shells and stones, various sizes A series of works done during the early 1990s with found objects from the shore in #Selsey. Collages, sculpture, land art and drawings are all extensions to the many paintings that relate to similar forms in the landscape. Other works from that period feature in the book ‘Aspects of Landscape’ and in the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns#sussex #shore #nature #line #circle #composition #onlineexhibition #landart #foundobjects #stones #collage #sculpture #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
SOLAR STONES, No.2, 1991, acrylic and oil on canva SOLAR STONES, No.2, 1991, acrylic and oil on canvas, 152.5 x 152.5 cm This painting belongs to the same period as the works in wood. Both use compositions with circles and lines as complimentary elements and basic forms in nature and culture. The picture features in the book ‘Aspects of Landscape’ that accompanies the current #exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #circle #form #composition #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
LIFETOWER, 1995, beechwood, 206 x 71 cm One of the LIFETOWER, 1995, beechwood, 206 x 71 cm One of the wooden sculptures of the 1990s in the grounds of the studio. The subject of circles and lines is typical for that period. Compositions using lines, circles and stacked circles (with the stack serving as a line in the middle), are also used in installations and in paintings. The work features in the book 'Aspects of Landscape' that accompanies the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #circle #onlineexhibition #wood #sculpture #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
A view of the current exhibition ‘Aspects of Lan A view of the current exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery : #Gallery 1 , with PAINTED WOODES BLADES, 2007, oil or acrylic on wood, 150 to 240cm A range of three-dimensional works was created from the 1990s onwards. Painting, works in land- and installation art and sculpture came to influence each other. The series of painted wooden blades is part of this more recent work. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #wood #painting #sculpture #colour #pattern #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
SKETCHES FOR PAINTED COLUMNS, 1995, pen on paper, SKETCHES FOR PAINTED COLUMNS, 1995, pen on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm The influence of weaving became evident in my work from the 1990s onwards. The lines in these sketches similarly correspond with bands of sedimentary rocks, and the bands of textures in weaving. Ideas from this period were later used in three-dimensional works, such as the painted wooden blades that are part of the current exhibitions @southamptoncityartgallery and @moncrieffbray . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #line #exhibition #gallery #sketches #weaving #wood #texture #painting #sculpture #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
FIELD LINE GRID No.2, 2007, acrylic on plywood, 46 FIELD LINE GRID No.2, 2007, acrylic on plywood, 46 x 36 cm This picture looks not only at landscape as a pattern of lines and crossing lines as in woven fabric, it also uses an unevenly shaped outer form. The idea was first taken up in the 1990s and developed since then in several ways, also for stretching canvases over the plywood shapes and adding texture the canvas. Similar work from that period is part of the current exhibition 'Aspects of Landscape' @southamptoncityartgallery #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #lines #onlineexhibition #painting #pattern #shape #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
WEALDEN FIELD DISTANCE, 1975, oil on canvas, 61 x WEALDEN FIELD DISTANCE, 1975, oil on canvas, 61 x 91.5 cm The landscape of the South Downs and the view of the Weald, both close the studio, are recurring subjects over many decades. There is a coherence and continuity between paintings of the 1970 and much more recent work. Several of these early pictures are displayed in #galleries 3 and 4 @southamptoncityartgallery . #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #weald #sussex #nature #lines #shapes #composition #onlineexhibition #colour #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape
FIELD FOLD, 2016, oil on canvas. 46 x 46 cm (x 2) FIELD FOLD, 2016, oil on canvas. 46 x 46 cm (x 2) Like the previous two posts this is one of the more recent paintings. The work is now studio based, but the subject matter, shapes and patterns in the landscape, remains the same as in many of the earlier paintings of views of the South Downs and Duncton Hill. Paintings from both periods feature in the current retrospective ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery and in the book that accompanies the exhibition. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #line #fields #shapes # patterns #onlineexhibition #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
Studio view with ANOTHER JOURNEY, 2015. The dishe Studio view with ANOTHER JOURNEY, 2015. The dished fibre form at the centre is painted on both sides. On the reverse, the convex side, is ‘Harbour’ (featured in the previous post). Both works are characteristic for more recent work that uses irregular shapes or three-dimensional forms as a basis for paintings. Their subject matter does still relate to different aspects of landscape. Examples of similar work are displayed in the current exhibition @southamptoncityartgallery and in the recently reopened @moncrieffbray #gallery. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #nature #onlineexhibition #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
HARBOUR, 2015, acrylic on dished fibre form, 130 x HARBOUR, 2015, acrylic on dished fibre form, 130 x 150 cm This one of a long series of works, dating back to the 1960s, that are dealing with the subject of coastal landscapes. ‘Harbour’ is unusual in that its dish-shaped fibre form is painted on both sides. The picture on the reverse is ‘Another Journey’. Several paintings relating to the subject feature in the current exhibition ‘Aspects of Landscape’ @southamptoncityartgallery and in the book the that accompanies the current retrospective. #johnhitchens #painter #britishartist #art #landscape #southdowns #sussex #coast #circle #harbour #painting #contemporaryart #artgallery #artexhibition #britishart #retrospective #soloshow #Southampton #SouthamptonCityArtGallery #onlineexhibition #book #monograph https://sansomandcompany.co.uk/product/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
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