Artist Profile - Doug Eaton

Treescape 022 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage
Treescape 022 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage

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Biography
Artist Statement

Treescape 022 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Soudley Bluebells, 010-042 (acrylic on canvas, 61 x 76cm framed) £700 plus delivery Treescape 010-019 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 cm framed) £200 plus postage Mallards Pike 010-037 acrylic on canvas 100 x 76cm framed) Sold
The Monnow 024 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Cannop Ponds, 010-040. (acrylic on canvas, 300 x 120cm framed) £750 plus delivery Linear Park 010-010 (acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm framed) £580 plus delivery Linear Park 010-054 (acrylic on canvas framed 36 x 26cm) £280 plus delivery
Treescape 021 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Near the Field, 010-044 (acrylic on canvas, 61 x 76cm framed) £700 plus delivery Symonds Yat 010-046 (acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100cm framed) £1450 plus delivery Mallards Pike, 010-035 (acrylic on canvas, 26 x 31cm framed) £250 plus delivery
Cannop Ponds 9048 (acrylic on canvas 25 x 30cm framed) £300 plus postage Cannop Ponds, 010-041 (acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40cm framed) £600 plus delivery Trees in Half Light 063 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Cannop Ponds 010-057 (acrylic on canvas, 100 x 50cm framed) £800 plus delivery
Forest Path (acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40cm framed) £550 plus postage The Monnow 025 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage In The Trees 009 - 044 (acrylic on canvas 24 x 30cm framed) £250 plus postage The Monnow 010-055 (acrylic on canvas framed 76 x 76cm) Sold
Looking towards Cinderford 010-018 (acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm framed) £580 plus delivery The Wye at Tintern, 010-039 (acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40cm framed) £600 plus delivery Pine Wood (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Treescape 023 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage
Soudley Bluebells, 010-043 (acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50cm framed) £500 plus delivery Trees in Half Light 062 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Tall Trees 010-058 (acrylic on canvas framed 31 x 122cm) £750 plus postage Treescape 014 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage
Sunlight in Trees, 205 x 205mm £200 plus postage Cannop Ponds 010-059 (acrylic on canvas, 125cm x 100cm framed) £1450 plus delivery The Monnow 010-056 (acrylic on cannvas 40 x 30cm framed £300

Biography

Doug has been a regular exhibitor at the GreenStage over the last eighteen months; we always try and keep some of his work on show as his distinct style is very popular. He has been busily painting a complete body of new work for his exhibition  in June and will also be joining us with more new work for the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea.His work draws enormously on the unique landscape around the Forest of Dean, and he uses strong lines and colours to emphasis extremes; soft against hard, light against dark hot against cold. He won the Rehau Prize 2007 at the h-Art Open Exhibition in Hereford Museum part of which includes an exhibition at their Company Headquarters in Germany.


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.