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.: John Virtue - Contemporary Landscape Painter. John Virtue, British Landscape, Kunst Tattoos, Black And White Painting, Rural Landscape, Sense Of Place, A Level Art, Contemporary Landscape, The Exhibition

Born in Accrington, Lancashire 1947, known for his monolithic landscape paintings. His work rides a fine line between abstraction and figurative. A combination of American abstract expressionism meets Turner and Constable the infamous English landscape painters whom Virtue admires enormously. Virtue tends to work from the landscape where he is living, he spent time in South Devon focussing on the Exe estuary as his subject. He then moved to London where he spends his days sketching primarily…

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John Virtue Seascape Conrad Jon Godly, Contemporary Art Artists, Abstract Techniques, Environment Painting, Black And White Painting, Amazing Drawings, Central London, Contemporary Modern Art, Seascape Paintings

Taking a days flexi leave ( being nearly 12 hours in hand ) I treated myself to an afternoon of galleries in central London as a reward for cleaning my studio in preparation for friend Maggie coming to stay ( making sure there were no pins on the floor). I was absorbed by the monochrome seascapes of John Virtue at the Malborough Fine Art Gallery . The huge canvases gave a sense of being within the landscape, particularly when you could see several at once and I liked the subtle brush marks…

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