Artist Profile - Doug Eaton

Scowles I 012-041 (acrylic on canvas framed 76 x 76 cm) £800 plus delivery
Scowles I 012-041 (acrylic on canvas framed 76 x 76 cm) £800 plus delivery

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Biography
Artist Statement

Scowles I 012-041 (acrylic on canvas framed 76 x 76 cm) £800 plus delivery Linear Park 012-015 (acrylic on canvas framed 74 x 90 cm) £750 plus delivery Old Hedgerow 013 001(acrylic on canvas 125 x 105 framed) Sold Meadowcliff Pond 013 003 (acrylic on canvas 120 x 100) sold
Meadowcliff Pond 013-004 (acrylic on canvas framed 94 x 74cm) £850.00 plus delivery Cannop Ponds 012-053 (acrylic on canvas framed 105 x 45 cm) Sold Wye at Symonds Yat 012-026 (acrylic on canvas framed 120 x 100 cm) £1650 plus delivery Cannop Ponds 012-051 (acrylic on canvas framed 105 x 45 cm) £750 plus delivery
From Mile End to Cinderford 012-046 (acrylic on canvas framed 95 x 65cm) £800 plus delivery Cannop Ponds 012-038 (acrylic on canvas framed 76 x 62 cm) £750 plus delivery Meadowcliff Pond 013-005 (acrylic on canvas 70 x 54cm framed) £550 plus delivery Pine Wood, 012-024 (acrylic on canvas 76 x 51cm) £700 plus delivery
Cannop Ponds 012 029 (acrylic on canvas 120 x 100) £1650 plus delivery Wimberry Valley 012-045 (acrylic on canvas framed 92 x 62 cm) £800 plus delivery Pond at Northern, 012-025 (acrylic on canvas 76 x 61cm) £800 plus delivery Meadowcliff Pond 013 002 (acrylic on canvas 125 x 105) Sold
Stream at Speech House 012 028 (acrylic on canvas 120 x 100) £1650 plus delivery Scowles II 012-042 (acrylic on canvas framed 76 x 76 cm) £800 plus delivery Meadowcliff Pond 013-006 (acrylic on canvas 85 x 70cm framed) £750 plus delivery

Biography

Doug Eaton grew up in Coleford, Forest of Dean. After tradition grammar school education he went on to Stroud School of Art and then Cheltenham College of Art in the late sixties. He started to paint full time in 1977 but business soon took a more graphic stance and remained so until 2001. During that early period he exhibited at the Royal West of England, Cheltenham Group of Artists, Pastel Society, as part of a four man show at Hereford Museum and Many local exhibitions. In 2001 he decided to paint more and take another look at what was around. He has work in many private collections in the UK and abroad; also has work on show in USA and Canada.


Artist Statement

I think I’ve always been interested in what paint does and hopefully have applied it in as many different ways as my imagination will allow. I have always been aware of a “painterly look” over and above a clinical rendition of anything. I don’t mind the odd dribble here or there if only to remind the onlooker that it is paint at the end of the day. Logically, I should therefore be entirely abstract, but instead I lean towards landscape type themes to hang paint on. Although I’ve done my fair share of traditional looking paintings I am currently trying to be more fundamental in my approach to try and produce a strong result from lines, shapes and colours which combined in some way evoke a landscape, usually based on the Forest of Dean, which I find to be quite a particular landscape. I tend to be interested in extremes, soft against hard edge, dark against light, hot against cold etc. and try to marry them together. I try to use a minimum of information for the onlooker to suggest the subject – hopefully, then the seemingly random paint begins to make sense, or alternatively, but with equal importance, the seemingly “random” paint will remain as paint and be enjoyed for itself.