Jill Hudson
I’m very excited to be exhibiting with the Byre Gallery this Spring
Getting my teeth stuck into some still life and landscape paintings.
Here is a…taster.
‘Pomegranite’ – 40cm x 40cm oil on board. See more in Still life
Cliff Park field – 25cm x 40cm – oil on board. See more in Landscape
‘Avocado’ I – 25cm x 30cm – oil on board. See more in Still life.
‘Bella Vista’ – oil on canvas – 50cm x 50cm – SOLD
I had fun with this painting. The view is inspired from one on St Martins, Isles of Scilly, where the yellow gorse contrasted so vibrantly with the sea on a sunny day in May.
‘Bird on a wire’ – oil on canvas – 20cm x 20cm
Again, there is the contrast of colour, the green bird versus the blue of the sky. Almost the background can be taken out of context here, because it is just colour. The wire takes on more significance than it normally would, scratched deep into the paint.
Currently for sale on www.saatchiart.com – original and prints
‘Broken wing’ – oil on canvas – 20cm x 20cm
I found a butterfly wing on the ground and just wanted to capture the colour and delicacy of it that I brought it back into the studio. A gust of wind caught it – aptly – and it broke in two, now even more reason to paint it I thought. Against the green of my table it makes for quite a contrast, and depicts more-so than before the delicacy and transience of life.
Currently for sale on www.saatchiart.com – original and prints
Apples in the washbowl oil on canvas – 50cm x 50cm – SOLD
‘Still Life’ as a discipline can be a fascinating subject. Life however, is never still, it moves on determinedly all the time from life to death, death being another element in the passage of time. A moment can be captured in a photograph or a painting, however, that object itself will wither and degrade, and whatever the object, time is patient. In fact that very painting or photograph will then wither and degrade. Taken literally, there is no such thing in terms of representation as ‘still life’ – I prefer to think of it as a ‘glimpse of life’, a moment in time. For me it is more dynamic than just ‘an arrangement of inanimate objects’, for me it tells of the inevitable story of things moving from one state to another.
So, apples in the washbowl – the bright fresh fruits, promising much, and full of energy.
Life is transient, and the pips in the bottom right corner show that the apples will soon be consumed. On the other hand, one tries to keep things for the future, the moth which has alighted on one of the apples, signifies that sometimes things fail. Apples may moulder in their box, moths may come in and destroy. A rather symbolic work under the surface, a picture which imparts a message, not just an image. Messages of course can be interpreted in many different ways. Ultimately, time is the topic here, not apples. You could view it negatively – time is immoveable, unchangeable, it is fruitless to try to arrest the action of things moving from one state to another, living, ageing and dying. You could view it positively – if time did not move relentlessly on, there would be no impetus to live life fully, with all the time in the world there may be nothing to rouse one to activity and to enjoy. Carpe diem. Sieze the day.
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