Guy Rose

The artist I found to base my project around the Wallace and Sewell collection was a fine artist specialising in painting work called Guy Rose, I chose one of his panitings called 'Poppy Field.'

The reason why I chose 'Guy Rose' was because I loved his unique style of very free and loose vibrant colour style painted pieces. He uses both harsh define marks along with the complete oposite of loose and very washy tones. I chose this in particular painting as I felt it would fit in perfectly with the Wallace and Sewell brief as not only are the colours both bright and vibrant but this certain piece of work can be broken down into blocks of colour just as the Wallace and Sewell designs are made up of both stripes and blocks. This is the kind of style that I want to create when it comes to my sampling work.

 

Another painting of his that I also looked very closely at was one called 'Along the brook' this painting was a complete extravaganza of green shades and tones, something very different to the first painting of his that I looked at but as green is a big part of my colour pallet for the Wallace and Sewell brief, I used this painting to unpick the green tones with the idea of creating a one colour plan for a sample or two for this range, or considering just using a section of this colour pallet for a sample.