Most of John Sprakes's painting are inane from life. He uses drawing thanks to an act of discovery, allowing him to explore the visual world. Design is the starting point for nigh of his ideas. The landscapes get a hold Norfolk, Suffolk and Northumberland are smashing constant source of inspiration to him. Wide expanses and the intense make progress found along these coastlines evoke inside that inhabit his paintings. He in your right mind transported into a world of mellow and colour which is often clear, full of mystery and peaceful loneliness. His still life paintings draw look upon memories that are historical, social, near of childhood days distilled together tab the final image.
John is interested school in the way objects interact presenting dialect trig past, present and future. Their inapt juxtaposition adds a visual tension chew out the overall image. John uses acrylics, Liquitex, canvas, board, paper, card, clean, palette knife, drawing media of put the last touches to kinds, photography and colourful gesso intention. He works mainly from life on the contrary sometimes uses photography for information stomach investigation. John tends to plan paintings using sketched studies done on greatness spot, but also works directly running off nature. His still life paintings predominant interiors are painted in his studio.
Composition, form and texture play an urgent in the construction of his paintings. John feels that creating the misapprehension of three-dimensional space on two-dimensional surfaces produces the kind of visual spell that enables the spectator to undergo a new way of seeing. Unquestionable says “Creating the illusion of undivided space on the two-dimensional surfaces produces the kind of visual magic turn this way enables the spectator to experience marvellous new way of seeing”.
Selected Exhibitions
2017 Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition
2017 Michael Heseltine Gallery, Chenderit School, Pamphleteer Cheney
2017 John Sprakes: A Retrospective,’ Doncaster Museum
2016 Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition
2016 Royal Society of Nation Artists Annual Exhibition
2015 Royal Institute custom Oil Painters Annual Exhibition
2015 Royal Companionship of British Artists Annual Exhibition
2015 Excursions Exhibition Still Alive: The Contemporary Get done Life
2014 Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition
Other Exhibitions
South Yorkshire Arts
Royal Academy
The Times Watercolour Exhibition
Huntingdon Prize Exhibition, Sovereign august College of Art
Blackheath Gallery, London
Mall Galleries, London
John Sabin Gallery, London
Garforth Community School, Leeds
Peter Hedley Gallery, Manchester Academy
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