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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options Available...quietly they come along, the pictures of the British painter Luke Elwes. All the more surprised the viewer then the intensity of the abstract landscapes. Are they landscapes? Are they impressions or both? What makes the contemporary painter Luke Elwes, what has shaped him? In search of answers, one gains insights into the artist's career and his painterly work.
Elwes was born in London, his childhood was spent in Iran. The beautiful nature of the Iranian deserts, their plays of light and bizarre formations play a significant role in his later work. Elwes studied history, art history and painting at renowned universities in Bristol and London. His professional career began at Christie's, one of the world's leading auction houses for art and antiques. During this time he began to travel and explore foreign cultures. He published his impressions in journals and art magazines, significantly his essay "look before you think," in Modern Painters. Travel, the experience of places physically and temporally, remained a central theme for Elwes. The consonance between his work and destinations is striking. The central Australian desert, mystical places in India and Asia Minor are found in his paintings. Not as an image, but as an interpretation of landscape, history and culture.
Elwes paints in oil, uses equally mixed techniques on paper. Regardless of the technique used, the works captivate with their typical surface layering. Nets overlay a background that can be guessed. Mysterious and yet familiar. It is left to the viewer to discover real paths or worlds of thought. The interweaving of reality and fiction is a consistent theme in Elwe's work. Everything influences everything and is incessantly in motion. Noticeable in subtle color and filigree optics and in their fusion. The main themes of the painter are the already mentioned mystical places, pictures in mainly large-format oil painting. Nevertheless, another theme stands out: Elwes explored and processed the landscapes and water surfaces of his homeland. Intensive study visits to Essex, the examination of the life form of water, analyzing the reflection of light and air in the course of the day led to delicate watercolors. Elwes processed these impressions in mixed technique on paper. The works fascinate with their meditative quality.
Elwes became known to a wide audience in the 90s. Art magazines become attentive during this period. Elwes' early works are more powerful, colorful, striking. The works for Refugia 2007 give an idea of the further development. This is followed, for example, by USA series, floating world, and finally Landermere Circles in 2021. Elwes received a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, worked as an artist in residence on an expedition in West Tibet and in the USA. His work has been shown in prestigious galleries in solo and group exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, New York, Bergamo, Milan and Paris. The artist lives and works in London.
...quietly they come along, the pictures of the British painter Luke Elwes. All the more surprised the viewer then the intensity of the abstract landscapes. Are they landscapes? Are they impressions or both? What makes the contemporary painter Luke Elwes, what has shaped him? In search of answers, one gains insights into the artist's career and his painterly work.
Elwes was born in London, his childhood was spent in Iran. The beautiful nature of the Iranian deserts, their plays of light and bizarre formations play a significant role in his later work. Elwes studied history, art history and painting at renowned universities in Bristol and London. His professional career began at Christie's, one of the world's leading auction houses for art and antiques. During this time he began to travel and explore foreign cultures. He published his impressions in journals and art magazines, significantly his essay "look before you think," in Modern Painters. Travel, the experience of places physically and temporally, remained a central theme for Elwes. The consonance between his work and destinations is striking. The central Australian desert, mystical places in India and Asia Minor are found in his paintings. Not as an image, but as an interpretation of landscape, history and culture.
Elwes paints in oil, uses equally mixed techniques on paper. Regardless of the technique used, the works captivate with their typical surface layering. Nets overlay a background that can be guessed. Mysterious and yet familiar. It is left to the viewer to discover real paths or worlds of thought. The interweaving of reality and fiction is a consistent theme in Elwe's work. Everything influences everything and is incessantly in motion. Noticeable in subtle color and filigree optics and in their fusion. The main themes of the painter are the already mentioned mystical places, pictures in mainly large-format oil painting. Nevertheless, another theme stands out: Elwes explored and processed the landscapes and water surfaces of his homeland. Intensive study visits to Essex, the examination of the life form of water, analyzing the reflection of light and air in the course of the day led to delicate watercolors. Elwes processed these impressions in mixed technique on paper. The works fascinate with their meditative quality.
Elwes became known to a wide audience in the 90s. Art magazines become attentive during this period. Elwes' early works are more powerful, colorful, striking. The works for Refugia 2007 give an idea of the further development. This is followed, for example, by USA series, floating world, and finally Landermere Circles in 2021. Elwes received a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, worked as an artist in residence on an expedition in West Tibet and in the USA. His work has been shown in prestigious galleries in solo and group exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, New York, Bergamo, Milan and Paris. The artist lives and works in London.
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.jpg "Hermit by Luke Elwes")
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