#ewan uglow

[irinaivanov]

Euan Uglow

portrait of wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

[annacrz]

Ewan Uglow

http://paintingperceptions.com/figure-painting/euan-uglow

I can't believe I've never seen this guy's work before. His paintings are amazingly rendered, and when I saw his drawings I realized he draws the way we are taught at my college. You can even see the beautiful marks under the paintings.

“Most people who have the opportunity to look for hours at one painting by Uglow find their eyes traveling over the surface, perplexed that marks, shadows and forms so limpid could crystalize conflicted emotions. The painter John McLean wrote, ‘These planes of Uglow stand for colour changes perceived with a keenness on might have said bordered on the hallucinatory, there it not reality that was in focus … His observation is so exquisite each discrete plane, each color rings out, like a note in a finely delivered song. The planes coalesce just like such sounds… This surface of a Uglow painting is beautiful. The frankness with which it reveals its constructions resonates as you read the continuum of form and space’.”