Summer grasses and barley on the cliff top

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20647

Title

Summer grasses and barley on the cliff top

Description

A painterly landscape of thick impasto depicting a coastal scene. The viewer looks across a field of barley towards the sea.

Artist / maker

Eardley, Joan

Date

1962

Size

110.2 x 137.8 cm

Type

Oil painting

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC1962/5

This painting was completed at Catterline, a tiny fishing village on the north east coast of Scotland.
In the height of summer, Joan Eardley would work continuously and intensely on her view of the natural environment by which she was surrounded. Eardley would often include the grasses and flowers blended in with her thick impasto colours of pale blue-green, gold and white. As she claimed to enquiring critics of her work, 'As a matter of fact my greatest influence is just looking at nature. I never look at other painting at all.'

(c.) The Eardley Estate

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