Lottie Eastwell Landscapes Exhibition

LOTTIE EASTWELL

LANDSCAPES

Artist CV

About the Artist:

Lottie Eastwell

London/Old Hunstanton 1996

Education:

Art and Design University of Leeds

Graphics and Media Ravensbourne

Solo and Group Exhibitions:

Leeds Degree Show 2018, Leeds

Open Studio Deptford, 2021, Deptford, London

Deptford Does Art - Group Exhibition on Development of Deptford, 2018, Deptford, London

Awards:

Royal Academy of Art 1st Prize

University of Leeds Award for Inventive use of Colour

Commissions:

100s of personalised paintings for clients which can be viewed on my website lottieeastwellart.com

I can do individual commissions of Norfolk scenes and all requests considered

Proposal

This project seeks to demonstrate the parallels between colour and mood, exploring the juxtaposition from travelling to trapped. It displays the timeline of events over the past 2.5 years, from travelling freely, to suddenly becoming confined within a single environment. I aimed to explore the way colours convey mood and how this was reflected during covid. The exhibition follows my journey from Australia and New Zealand, to lockdown in Norfolk; then as the world begins to open up again, we see my landscapes from UK destinations and finally I explore abroad locations once again. I seek to allow the viewer to relate to my pieces, understanding the sudden change from freedom to confinement. The landscapes begin to progress into abstraction, a subsection of my project, concentrating solely on colour and composition. In doing so, I hope to evoke emotion within the viewer.

The processes involved include acrylic painting, gouache and digital painting. Acrylic is my preferred medium of choice as the quick drying qualities allowed me to layer my pieces. Acrylic also can be applied in a range of different techniques including impasto, where the paint is layered thickly; this can be obtained through use of brushes and palette knives. This technique allowed me to mix paint directly onto the canvas and created texture as the paint appears to project out of the canvas. I began with a diluted burnt sienna base, which allows colour to burst through the layers of the painting.

Gouache creates a more block colour effect, an almost computerised resemblance. I find the colours are more vibrant, creating an impressionist affectation. This medium was most effective during the summer months, creating a playful, bright piece. During this project, I began working with digital planning as well as digital painting. I began planning paintings compositionally and testing different colour schemes to create a virtual piece of art that I could rework and change; this often helped me when working on large scale pieces and allowed me to see what worked and what didn't. When layering my abstract pieces, digital planning helped immensely when creating the composition of the piece, the selection of brushes determined which medium would follow.

A main subject of my pieces is light itself. The dramatic sky protruding through the tree’s branches and leaves allows light itself to become the crucial, fundamental subject of the paintings. It forces the background to become something that cannot be ignored. My more abstracted landscapes focused on sky, forest and water and the space around these. The focus on negative space and the exaggeration of colour allows the painting's subject matter to become almost unrecognisable. I aimed to blur the line between abstraction and realism as my project progressed.

Landscape is a subject I only began to explore in depth during the beginning of this project. I was inspired by the vastly differing scenes of the southern hemisphere and how these compare to the English countryside. During my travels, I gathered thousands of photographs so that upon my return I could almost relive my experiences through painting the images.

The collection has a variation in scale which creates a range of representation and thus a variation in viewer perspective. Small scale acts as a window into the understanding, whereas large scale involves the viewer in practice. As well as scale, an artist must consider colour schemes and a sense of consistency. I often use complementary colours within the semi-abstract and abstract pieces to create a sense of harmony vs dissonance.

In completing this project, I aimed to achieve a strong correlation between colour and mood, combining a range of processes. I aimed to allow the viewer to follow my experiences and to hopefully relate to the journey explored.

Contents in Order

Australia and New Zealand Pieces:

View into The Australian Outback 2021

Acrylic on Board

325mmx387mm

£180

Devils Bath in Wai-O-Tapu, New Zealand 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

297mmx420mm

£150

Volcanic Rock in Rotorua, New Zealand 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

250mmx297mm

£150

Stormy Skies in St Kilda, Melbourne 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

297mmx420mm

£180

View from Kokoda Track 1000 Steps, Melbourne 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

590mmx590mm

£200

View from Paxos 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

600mmx755mm

£200

Norfolk Pieces:

Ringstead Parva 2022

Acrylic on Canvas

300mmx300m

£180

View Into Thornham 2022

Acrylic on Canvas Board

297mmx420mm

£180

Wild Flowers at Thornham Sea Wall 2022

Acrylic on Canvas

297mmx420mm

£180

Stream at Titchwell 2022

Acrylic on Canvas

396mmx500mm

£180

Holme Nature Reserve 2022

Acrylic on Canvas Board

420mmx594mm

£200

Old Hunstanton Park 2021

Acrylic on Canvas Board

210mm297mm

£180

Old Hunstanton Park Tree 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

£200

Old Hunstanton Gate 2021

Acrylic on Canvas Board

210mmx297mm

£180

Old Hunstanton Sand Dunes 2021

Gouache on Card

176mmx250mm

£180

Old Hunstanton Dune Path 2021

Gouache on Card

176mmx250mm

£160

Old Hunstanton Waves I 2021

Gouache on Card

176mmx250mm

£180

Old Hunstanton Waves II 2021

Gouache on Card

176mmx250mm

£180

Cley Windmill 2021

Acrylic on Canvas Board

210mmx297mm

£180

Old Hunstanton Beach Landscape 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

350mmx455mm

£180

Creake Abbey at Dawn 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

760mmx1150mm

£300

Creake Abbey Point of View 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

420mmx594mm

£180

Creake Abbey 2021

Gouache on Card

176mmx250mm

£150

Old Hunstanton Gate 2020

Guoache on Card

176mmx250mm

£150

Old Hunstanton Path 2020

Guoache on Card

176mmx250mm

£150

Old Hunstanton Sheep 2020

Guoache on Card

176mmx250mm

£150

Old Hunstanton Bridge 2020

Guoache on Card

176mmx250mm

£150

Abstract Pieces:

Pink and Turquoise Abstract I 2021

Mixed Media on Board

594mmx841mm

£300

Pink and Turquoise Abstract II 2021

Mixed Media on Board

SIZE

£300

Lake District Pieces:

Sailing Boat at Windermere 2020

Gouache on Card

176mmx250mm

£180

Tree and Sheep atop a Hill in The Lake District 2020

Gouache on Card

176mmx250mm

£150

London Pieces:

Battersea Park 2021

Acrylic on Board

387mmx535mm

£200

Sevenoaks 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

420mmx594mm

£200

Prints:

Digital Flower 1 2021

Digital Painting

297mmx420mm

£85