Product Description
Here is another of my etude series of paintings, intended to capture intimate and vulnerable moments of individuals. This series is progressing very well indeed and I have been delighted to produce this piece in oil, heavily textured with titanium white and ultramarine blue. The balance, concept and content have worked out beautifully! This woman, conjured from the canvas and coaxed into being, now has life...
Contrition - Etude in Blue was created by artist Mark John Maguire in 2018. This art piece is a Paintings artwork. The style of this artwork is best described as Fine Art, Impressionism, Modernism. The genre portrayed in this piece of art is Figurative, Nudes, People. The artwork was created in Canvas, Oil, Painting. The size of the original art is 20 (inches) H x 16 (inches) W.
Words which artist Mark John Maguire feels best describe this work of art are: etude in blue, blue nude, blue art, contrition, mark john maguire, art in Wales, art 2018, beautiful woman, nude woman, nude art, naked woman, .
About Mark Maguire
I was born in Liverpool and was educated at the University of Manchester, Swansea University and the Polytechnic of Wales where I studied History, Philosophy and Intellectual and Art History (MA). I have lived and worked in Ireland, Germany, Holland and the UK as a barman, labourer, soldier, Aircraft sealer, Trade Marks Examiner, Ministerial Policy Adviser in Trade & Industry (London), Head of International Relations at the Welsh Office and Principal Private Secretary to the Presiding Officer at the National Assembly for Wales.
I left the Civil Service in 2005 and dedicated myself to art and writing. My large, vibrant and luminous paintings are metaphysical in approach and, as with my writing, personal and intense. They frequently convey contemporary urban realism in a ruined, isolated or detached landscape. The figures in them are always captive watchers of their environment or circumstances, trapped by their inability to communicate. I call these works "narrative" because what is important in the paintings is what happens before or after the moment depicted - the viewer must move beyond the canvas to ascertain this. My smaller paintings are "etudes", conceived as intimate studies of the mood and condition of individuals. They are almost always painted in blue.