'Call & Response II' Oil on canvas by J R Swaby
Oil on canvas
50cm x 60cm x 2cm Ready to hang (unframed)
This oil painting is part of a collection entitled 'Call & Response'. The three works are based on the coastline in Hastings and St Leonard's on Sea, where the artist lives and works. The theme is based on the artist's response to God, some inner and unspeakable conversation where the individual is drawn into the divine and responds by creating art. The art is then a new celebration of nature, of seeing in a completely different aspect, as if everything has just come alive and then the Call & Response is felt in creation itself - the sea, the rocks and the air speak deeply to the innermost self and create both peace (grounded, rooted) and excitement (energy for life).
Oil on canvas
50cm x 60cm x 2cm Ready to hang (unframed)
This oil painting is part of a collection entitled 'Call & Response'. The three works are based on the coastline in Hastings and St Leonard's on Sea, where the artist lives and works. The theme is based on the artist's response to God, some inner and unspeakable conversation where the individual is drawn into the divine and responds by creating art. The art is then a new celebration of nature, of seeing in a completely different aspect, as if everything has just come alive and then the Call & Response is felt in creation itself - the sea, the rocks and the air speak deeply to the innermost self and create both peace (grounded, rooted) and excitement (energy for life).
Oil on canvas
50cm x 60cm x 2cm Ready to hang (unframed)
This oil painting is part of a collection entitled 'Call & Response'. The three works are based on the coastline in Hastings and St Leonard's on Sea, where the artist lives and works. The theme is based on the artist's response to God, some inner and unspeakable conversation where the individual is drawn into the divine and responds by creating art. The art is then a new celebration of nature, of seeing in a completely different aspect, as if everything has just come alive and then the Call & Response is felt in creation itself - the sea, the rocks and the air speak deeply to the innermost self and create both peace (grounded, rooted) and excitement (energy for life).
Julia Swaby’s original training was as a watercolour artist for a small studio in Surrey. She abandoned that to pursue an academic career and taught Philosophy & Psychology (specialising in Philosophy of Mind) for ten years. Overloaded with words and complex ideas, her mind was wilting from the lack of spontaneous input and so she began to paint abstract as pure expressionism. Once the palette knife was in her hand, she connected to abstract art in a way she had never connected to any creative output. She wouldn't say she has left Philosophy behind entirely, only that those concepts are finding a new channel. Dietrich von Hildebrand maintains that aesthetic dimension has a moral value and that beauty is transcendental. Beauty in art arouses the sublime in the human spirit.
She works in oils and prefer larger canvases, finding a mental openness when painting on this scale. What fascinates her most is energy and light; the energy and light within and without the human mind and soul, as well as the energy of a painting.