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Nigel Casseldine
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Nigel CasseldineStatementI was glad to recently read that there has been a renewed interest in good figurative painting, a ‘return to basics’. I feel strongly that the public and those who are interested in painting in particular have never lost interest, and indeed have enabled painters like myself and others to continue through their patronage during a difficult period. To hear once again the phrase ‘I know what I like’ is deserving of applause at a time when even the critics, those individuals who make a living ‘knowing what they like’ have failed to persuade the public ‘to like what they know’.My painting is concerned with a direct emotional response to the landscape, not a painted topography but in an attempt to contain something of its sense of place and time. A strong emphasis is concentrated on the dynamic effect of weathering with brisk brushwork and complimentary colour. First contact is recorded in a drawing which may then be allowed to percolate for months or sometimes years, before memory plus the original drawing is used to create a new work.These paintings represent a journey of several years, ideas and themes, some of which have provided a constant fascination with light and form, and can be considered a return to those basic tenets that encouraged my first steps as a painter.
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