Artist Profile - Doug Eaton

Cannop Ponds 9054 (acrylic on canvas 35 x 45cm framed) £400 plus postage
Cannop Ponds 9054 (acrylic on canvas 35 x 45cm framed) £400 plus postage

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Biography
Artist Statement

Cannop Ponds 9054 (acrylic on canvas 35 x 45cm framed) £400 plus postage Trees in Half Light 062 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage The Long Stone, (acrylic on canvas 300 x 245 framed) £300 plus postage The Monnow 024 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage
Cannop Ponds 9048 (acrylic on canvas 25 x 30cm framed) £300 plus postage Edge of The Field (acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm framed) £480 plus postage Evening Sun Mile End 028 (acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm framed) £650 plus postage Treescape 014 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage
Looking towards Cinderford (acrylic on canvas, 100 x 120cm) £ Sunlit Trees (acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50cm framed) £650 plus postage Evening Sun Mile End 029 (acrylic on canvas 100 x100cm framed) £1250 plus postage Cannop Ponds 9042 (acrylic on canvas 51 x 51cm framed) £650 plus postage
Winter Light at Mile End, (acrylic on canvas, 100 x 1200cm framed) £ Treescape 021 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Sunlight in Trees, 205 x 205mm £200 plus postage The Wye near the Saracens, Acrylic on Canvas, 500 x 500mm, £650 plus postage
Evening Sun, Mile End 012 (acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm framed) £650 plus postage Trees in Half Light 063 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage The Wye near Lydbrook (acrylic on canvas 35 x 45cm framed) £400 plus postage The Monnow 025 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage
Cannop Ponds 9036 (acrylic on canvas 30 x 76cm frame) £450 plus postage Treescape 023 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Forest Path (acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40cm framed) £550 plus postage Evening Sun Mile End 026 (acrylic on canvas 100 x100cm framed) Sold
Treescape 022 (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage Tree on the Patch, acrylic on canvas 25 x 30cm £300 plus postage Pine Wood (acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cm framed) £200 plus postage

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.