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| Charles Olsen |
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Born in Nelson, New Zealand 1969, Charles Olsen moved to England in 1981. He currently lives in Madrid where he is painting and studying flamenco guitar and has recently created two webpages to present artists from Spain and New Zealand - for details see his webpage below. Charles' portrait 'La Sundari' was second in the first Showdown, 2007.
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| 关于此艺术家 |
"Charles' art is a reflection of his calm, contemplative character. Each canvas evolves steadily and naturally, portraying either the quiet thoughts after a passage of Mozart, reconstructed in layers of colour, or the deep, intense passions of Spain. Wistful moments too are freely created as the paint is allowed to dictate its own course, enabling our own feelings and thoughts to wander."
(Hayley Savage, composer)
part of me is serious and studious and part of me is playful and childish
friends say whenever I go away anywhere "Oh, you'll find lots of inspiration for paintings in the landscape/city/(wherever I'm off to)" and I say to myself "yeah, it's not what you think, I'm gonna be walking and seeing things and meeting people and dancing and have no time for painting, I'll be up to my eyeballs in new experiences and start questioning everything all over again and it's gonna take a while before it bubbles to the surface in my art"
some people just like my realistic work, some only like the abstract work, some the photographic work, maybe it is what they are used to? I didn't much go for old master paintings when I was a kid
I saw some paintings in the Prado by Botticelli the other day that were wonderful the way he created perspective by the placement of trees, no naturalistic shadows, just colours and scale. I like that there are different perspectives in art, it's something I have been exploring through stereo-photography and subsequent paintings based on these. stereo-photography has a quality all of it's own which is quite magical
one of the stereo-photos is of the sofa where my grandfather used to sit in front of his old 70s television set, it is bathed in a halo of sunlight from a window and surrounded by reflections in numerous framed photos of family on the walls behind. another is of clouds over France viewed from above on 9 Sept 2001. I'd like to exhibit just that single stereo-photo with a series of watercolours one day
I've got this photo I took of a dead cow and I was wondering how it would work alongside my other work and in the end it went beautifully. the colours echoed my watercolours as did the texture of the skin which looks as delicate as thin paper. most people seeing it for the first time took a long time to realise what it was of
most of my paintings have stories around them. it's not that they necessarily tell a story, sometimes the story will be about how the image came about, sometimes what was happening at the time of the painting can resonate with the work, sometimes other people's ideas attach themselves to the story of the work, and then there are the paintings that have been bought because someone has seen their own story in them
an elderly lady who bought one of my abstract watercolours in my last exhibition found after she got it home that the title (I called it just the date it was done) was the day her husband had died two years before
these are a few random thoughts from Madrid, 30 December 2003
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La Sundari
2005 oil on window shutters 158 x 150 cm |
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Madrid is a city in a constant state of change and renovation - there are always 'obras' or roadworks and skips full of interesting things. I was looking for old doors to paint on when I came across these dusty old window-shutters which had a beautiful weathered colour and are very heavy (to keep out Madrid's winter cold). The portrait is of a close friend who dances flamenco and with whom I've spent many hours rehearsing. 'La Sundari' gained the runner up prize in the first Saatchi Showdown, 2007. |
A L Clayton in browns
2001 watercolour on paper 27.5 x 19 cm |
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A L Clayton in thought
2001 watercolour on paper 25.5 x 17 cm |
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One of my favourite paintings of my grandfather. You can read more about it in 'An interview with the artist' on my webpage - see link below. |
Reflection
2002 oil on canvas 61 x 71.5 cm |
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Resonance
2003 oil on canvas 91.5 x 101.5 cm |
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Zelle
2004 watercolour on paper 45.5 x 35.5 cm |
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Retrato de una mujer
2004 watercolour on paper 55 x 42 cm |
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La Sundari
2005 oil on window shutters 158 x 150 |
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Working on the portrait 'La Sundari'. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Biography
1969 Born in Nelson, New Zealand
1981 Moved to England when his mother, Marion Olsen, received grants to study singing in London
1993 First visit to Spain to study flamenco guitar with Paco Pena in Cordoba
1994 BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Middlesex University, London
1995 Artist in Residence at Bournewood NHS Trust, Surrey
2001 Spent 9 months in NZ painting at his grandfather's house and performed flamenco guitar at the Nga Puna Waihunga Hui, Te Aute College
2002 and 2003 Artist in Residence at Wishmore Cross School, Chobham
2004 Moved to Madrid to learn Spanish, paint, and study flamenco guitar
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 La Casa de los Jacintos, Madrid
2005 "Retratos" - La Plaza de las Artes, Madrid
2003 Windsor Street Gallery, Chertsey
2001 Plimmer Steps Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1999 The Caravan, Lyne, with music by 'Drunk on Logic'
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 'Los Artistas del Barrio', Madrid
2003 New Zealand House, Haymarket, London
2000 Woking Millennium Exhibition
1999 St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey
1998 'Contemporary British Watercolours' - Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh
The Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames
1997 The Vicarage, Lyne
St Mark's Church, Merton Arts Festival, Wimbledon
1996 The Vicarage, Lyne
1995 Hamilton House, Lyne
'Salon d'automne' - Le Moulin Fidel, Ville du Plessis-Robinson, Paris
1994 'Verve' - Forest Contemporary Art, Guildford
The Atrium, Whiteleys, London
Quicksilver Place, Middlesex University, London
1993 Quicksilver Place Gallery, Middlesex University, London
Art Related Activities
2007 Created webpages to represent artists in Spain and New Zealand on 'myspace'. See: www.myspace.com/artistasdeespana and www.myspace.com/newzealandartists |
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| To see photos from the last exhibition see my website below. |
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网站: www.myspace.com/charles_olsen |
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