Carmen Lindahl
"Exotic garden" For my new series of paintings, David Hockney and his recent English landscape paintings, their colours and approach, have been an inspiration to me.
Three years ago I moved my studio to the south of France. The flora of the Mediterranean became my main motive. The light and explosive vegetation here are magnificent. I have been in many gardens and up in the mountains around and taken photos I have wanted to interpret.
I have then processed them in the computer. The ensuing paintings are impressionistic in style, done with palette knife in oil on paper, which in turn are pasted on canvas. Finally, I varnish the canvases with resin. Together, the paintings constitute a variation around one and the same motif image where I want to travel into the inner essence of exotic flora.
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