Gabriella Cleuren, Westerschelde 01, 2013
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 15 x 21 cm (5 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Westerschelde 02, 2013
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 15 x 21 cm (5 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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A void occupied
With these images I have attempted to mould the immense spaces along the Western Scheldt into a presence with its own distinct personality and to depict the landscapes such as they exist across the border into the Netherlands: the Flemish Zeeland region.
I visited them since painters are fated to seek out solitudes and I was constantly preoccupied with the question how to best render that feeling of solitude and isolation (perhaps loneliness?) through my work. As such, these landscapes are metaphors representative of my thoughts and inner personal reflections.
You will recall them as you wander along the dyke in Walsoorden, or along the way to the drowned lands of Safthinge.
When you sit gazing into the distance, vacantly, contemplatively, lost within the environment, you come to realize how the landscape assumes the shape of a living presence, how its colours unfold in delicate and refined nuances, how the sun lights the surface of the waters in rose and golden hues, and fleeting emerald brightnesses reflect their sparkles in the bursting ripples.
The sounds, the shrill cries of water fowl, the rhythm of their wondrously fast feet traipsing across the sands at the water’s edge, the measured orchestrated precision flights of a flock of silvery birds, now dark, now silver against the background palette of the skies or, like one great massive marine body, flowing across the beach, all of it an unending source of delight to soothe the mind.
Gabriella Cleuren, Barricade, 2012
Highly pigmented acrylics on canvas, 70 x 50 cm (27 3/16 x 19 1/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, End of the day, 2012
Highly pigmented acrylics on canvas, 70 x 50 cm (27 3/16 x 19 1/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Enjoying sundown, 2012
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 42 x 29 cm (16 1/2 x 11 3/8 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Four shapes, 2012
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 15 x 20 cm (5 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Moving worlds, 2012
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Road in the fields, 2012
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 42 x 29 cm (16 3/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Westerschelde 06, 2012
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 15 x 20 cm (5 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Road, 2011
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 73 x 54 cm (28 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, End of life - New begin, 2010
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 54 x 73 cm (21 1/16 x 28 1/4 in.)
When you sit gazing into the distance, vacantly, contemplatively, lost within the environment, you come to realize how the landscape assumes the shape of a living presence, how its colours unfold in delicate and refined nuances, how the sun lights the surface of the waters in rose and golden hues, and fleeting emerald brightness’s reflect their sparkles in the bursting ripples.
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Gabriella Cleuren, San Diego, 2010
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Marvel area, 2008
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 110 x 73 cm (43 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Zeeland, 2008
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, Two figures on the edge, 2007
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, As a whole part, 2006
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 30 x 20 cm (11 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Gabriella Cleuren, The other road, 2006
Highly pigmented acrylics on prepared Steinbach 250/300 g/mg paper, 42 x 29 cm (16 1/2 x 11 3/8 in.)
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