Product Description
This painting is of Queen Street, Cardiff - a very wet evening in November. It seemed to rain all that November and the dismal days gave way to a magical place when the night fell and the water acted as a diaphanous lens for the street lights... This was a pleasure to paint because it produced such a satisfying and immediate result! I suppose this could be any city street in similar circumstances ...
The Memory of Night Rain 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. The genre portrayed in this piece of art is Cityscape. The artwork was created in Canvas, Oil, Painting. The size of the original art is 16 (inches) H x 24 (inches) W.
Words which artist Mark John Maguire feels best describe this work of art are: memory of night rain, city rain, cardiff queen street, cardiff rain, south wales rain, night rain, colour of rain, city lights, city at night, reflections in rain, city in colour, november rain, Mark John Maguire, .
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.