charlie sheard

this artist amazes me. his use of oil paint (and other materials) is incredible and the atmospheric forms he creates are wonderfully subtle, drawing you into the painting. he paints using old master techniques, yet creates these incredible abstract works with intense colours. i would love to be able to afford one!

Here's what he says on the Tim Olsen Gallery website:

Two artists have inspired me continuously for twenty years, the sixteenth century Venetian painter Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), and the twentieth century poet Ezra Pound. In the work of both of these men, technical mastery of the highest order is married to visionary intensity and spendour.

For some years I have been working with techniques in general from Venetian Renaissance models, and in particular from Titian, whose pictures exhibit extraordinary layering of colour, thereby achieving an unprecedented richness and complexity of optical effect. Such effects, arising out of the dynamic relationship between opacity and transperancy in the oil medium, lend themselves suggestively to the rendering of atmospheric light. Like many painters before me (such asTurner, and Monet in his late work), I have drawn deeply on this branch of Titian's endeavour.'

- Charlie Sheard,

from Exhibition Catalogue 'Homage to Tiziano and Ezra Pound,' 2000

good afternoon wassily

pink lights

jade peak

landscape

green forms in red air

abstraction in acrylic, vinyl, paper, chalk in acrylic dispersion, acrylic primed linen

abstraction in oil, alkyd resin, copper powder, resin, slate dust, marble dust, phlogopite glimmer yellow, wax, on oil primed linen

images from charliesheard.com and tim olsen gallery