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Description: | Oil on canvas over hardboard. Blaise Drummond's work is concerned with the relationship between nature and culture. He looks to the specific man-made elements of the landscape and people within it, as well as more general aspects of natural beauty. In this painting, which comes from a series entitled 'Extracts from the Poetic Geography of Five Continents', Blaise Drummond combines abstraction with meticulously painted realism. An individual is shown apparently walking through a winter landscape. The splodges of dark green and blue-grey suggest pine trees on snowy ground, while the flecks of paint are reminiscent of falling snowflakes. However, the woman is depicted in shorts and a short-sleeved t-shirt, creating a narrative disjunction as it doesn't really make sense to wear summer clothes in winter.
Blaise Drummond was born in Liverpool in 1967. He initially studied Philosophy and Classical Art at the University of Edinburgh before undertaking a degree in Fine Art and History of Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He continued his studies at Chelsea College of Art in London and received an MA in Fine Art in 1998. He has taught at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology; the National College of Art and Design, Dublin; the Dublin Institute of Technology; and Crawford College of Art. Drummond has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Castlefield Gallery in Manchester, the Aalst Museum in Belgium, and the Crawford Municipal Gallery in Cork. | Rights holder: | © Blaise Drummond | Subjects: | winter tree woman snow backpack pine fir landscape C20th | Temporal: | 2002 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Blaise Drummond | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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