‘Heritage, art history, pattern and motif are all key to my work’
Annabel Tilley makes paintings that reimagine nature and the landscape as an ongoing series of structures, patterns and motifs.
It is often a visit to a museum, garden or heritage site that sparks something new. Visit to Giverny is a series of watercolours that stem from photographs taken during a visit to Claude Monet’s house and garden in Northern France, and alongside this, an experiment to keep a visual record of the colours used in each watercolour within the body of the painting.
At the beginning the paper was divided equally giving each idea (the image and the visual record of colours) its own area but as the series progressed, and boundaries moved, the complexities of this dual-image process, and its disruption to ‘ordinary’ viewing, began to emerge. The dual-image, by its very nature, hinders the viewer from seeing the picture as a whole.
This led to thoughts about how the figurative and abstract might merge but remain separate within one work and how this might impact on the work as a whole and the viewer who receives it.
Watercolour No 74
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on 300gsm Fabriano paper
56x76cm
2021
Watercolour No 73
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on 320gsm Khadi paper
56x76cm
2021
Watercolour No 77
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on 320gsm Khadi Paper
30x40cm
2021
Watercolour No 76
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on 320gsm Khadi Paper
30x40cm
2021
Watercolour No 75
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on banana fibre paper
54x70cm
2021
Watercolour No 75 (detail)
Watercolour No 71
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
32x25cm
2021
Watercolour No 69
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
32x25cm
2021
Watercolour 69 (detail)
Watercolour No 68
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
32x25cm
2021
Watercolour No 67
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
32x25cm
2021
Watercolour 67 (detail)
Watercolour No 65
Visit to Giverny (View of the bridge)
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
25x32cm
2021
Watercolour No 65 (detail)
Watercolour No 64
Visit to Giverny (view from the bedroom)
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
25x32cm
2021
Watercolour No 44
Visit to Giverny (view from the bedroom)
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
25x32cm
2021
Watercolour No 66
Visit to Giverny
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
32x25cm
2021
Watercolour No 43, Visit to Giverny + Colour Swatch
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
33x25cm
2021
Detail: Watercolour No 43, Visit to Giverny
Detail: Colour Swatch (Watercolour No 43, Giverny)
Visit to Giverny on the Studio Wall, August 2021. Etretat
Watercolour No 40, Path + Colour Swatch
Watercolour on Fabriano Tiziano
25x33cm
2021
Detail: (Watercolour No 40, Path)
Detail: Colour Swatch (Watercolour No 40, Path)
Watercolour 52
Study for English Landscape (West Dean), including Colour Swatch
Watercolour on 300gsm Fabriano Artistico
19x28cm
2021
Watercolour No 53
Study for English Landscape, including Colour Swatch
Watercolour on 300gsm Fabriano Artistico
19x28cm
2021