by rebecca holton
Oil on board
h: 39 w: 50 d: 1 (cms).
January can be a depressing month; Christmas and New year celebrations are over, the trees are bare, the animals hibernating, and Winter dominates. It was January this year when I spotted this lady having a coffee in our local café in Bath, ‘Dexters’. There was stream of beautiful, warm, amber and pink light coming through the back window of the café. It moved across the café, bringing different details and shadows sharply and softly into focus – rather like a theatre’s spotlight. The incredible warmth of the winter sunlight cast a completely different mood onto the areas it touched. The warmth made warmer as it was in direct contrast to the blues of the winter shadows. I feel this painting is an accumulation of opposites, colour; light verses dark; sharp edges verses soft mutation. I really enjoyed painting it.
£2750
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by rebecca holton
Oil on linen
h: 75 w: 55 d: 2 (cms).
As a mother, there are so few times you can have time and space for yourself. This painting is of Victoria, a friend of mine and fellow mother. Her master bathroom was her brief escape and sanctuary from ongoing house renovation and motherly duties. In this painting, I wanted to capture and enlarge that moment of freedom. I wanted to remove any sense of confinement or end; I removed the left-hand wall, dramatically increased the ceiling height and multiplied the number of windows. Morning light is streaming through the crittall glass windows creating chequered reflections that dominate the painting, and even the figure. She disappears into the light and sense of escape.
£4400.00
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