Artist Profile - Doug Eaton

Tree Roots and Corrugated Tin acrylic on canvas 76 x 76 cm
Tree Roots and Corrugated Tin acrylic on canvas 76 x 76 cm

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Biography
Artist Statement

Tree Roots and Corrugated Tin acrylic on canvas 76 x 76 cm Wimberry Valley acrylic on canvas 100 x 40cm Canoe on Wye at Ross acrylic on canvas 76 x 76cm Bluebells at Soudley acrylic on canvas 75 x 125cm
Woods at Barn Hill acrylic on canvas 70 x 30cm Field at Mile End After the Rain acrylic on canvas 30 x 30cm The Wye Across to Goodrich acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm Goodrich Castle acrylic on canvas 76 x 76cm
Linnear Park acrylic on canvas 30 x 30cm Mile End Autumn acrylic on canvas 180 x 60cm Looking thru Trees acrylic on canvas 76 x 76cm Field at Mile End with Worcester Lodge SOLD
Cannop Ponds acrylic on canvas 76 x 76 cm Woods Near Tip, Cannop Hill acrylic on canvas 75 x 60cm Reflections In The Field After Rain acrylic on canvas 76 x 76cm Soudley Ponds acrylic on canvas 76 x 76 cm
Cannop Ponds acrylic on canvas, 760 x 760mm Mine near Bixhead, Acrylic, 750 x 750mm Field at Mile End after the Rain acrylic on canvas 76 x 76cm Style Behind Worcester Lodge acrylic on canvas 30 x 70cm
Wimberry Valley acrylic on canvas 100 x 40cm Woods at Mile End acrylic on canvas 75 x 60cm Out of the Dark & Into the Light acrylic on canvas 76 x 76 cm Looking Through the Trees acrylic on canvas 70 x 30cm
Wye at Lydbrook acrylic on canvas 76 x 76cm

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 this exhibition and will also be joining us with more new work for the Affordable Art Fair in Bristol.. 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. Last year was a very successful one for Doug with many local exhibitions including ones at the Applestore, Courtyard and at Galanthus over Christmas. 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.