Jim Harris - Painting along the Amstel

Описание: Jim Harris (1968, London) lives and works in Amsterdam
“I live on the Amstel, from which Amsterdam takes its name. For years now, whenever I set out to paint scenes in the city, the play of light on the river has caught my eye as the bow wave and wake of a pleasure boat or barge fractured the surface, creating mesmerizing patterns. It is a vision that has attracted a great many artists who have attempted to capture on canvas the illusive beauty of this historic river which flows deep in the city it helped to create, an unpredictable and vital pulse in the urban landscape.

My desire to paint the Amstel was inspired in part by the fact that it is very much a backcloth to my long residence on its banks, and, in part. by the inspiration of the wonderful depictions of the river by the Dutch artist Mondrian. In 1995 I was captivated by an exhibition entitled Mondrian along the Amstel. It seemed to me that his genius was to use paint in a dynamic way while finding what might be called a “universal language” in his depiction of aspects of the Amstel which were unique to the point at which he had painted them as he saw them “en plein air”.
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