75.04 Set of six studies — The Reynolds foundation

Catalogue number 75.04

(28cm wide by 20cm high) watercolor on paper, framed)

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These six sketches, which were made by Susan Hawker (b.1949) at the Mill a Newbold on Stour in the summer of 1975, were preliminary studied for much larger oil paintings (see catalogue numbers 75.05 and 75.06). Writing about her watercolor technique at that time, she has written:- “I was not convinced that my improvised combinations of water-based pigment, graphite and chalk could be properly classified as ‘watercolors’ - at that time everything I painted on paper was made in preparation for larger oils. My pictures may not conform to the time-honored English topographical tradition but I know exactly where every image was painted and I value the power that watercolor has to transform these real-life places, always visually chaotic and full of confusing details, into a unified poetic idea’.

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Seis bocetos de ‘The Mill’, por Susan Hawker. Acuarela sobre papel. Enamrcado 28cm de ancho x 20 cm de alto. No de catalogo 75.04.

Estos seis bocetos, que fueron realizados por Susan Hawker (b.1949) en ‘The Mill’, en Newbold en Stour, en el verano de 1975, fueron estudios preliminaries para pinturas al óleo mucho más grandes (véanse los números de catalogo 75.05 y 75.06). Al referirse sobre su técnica de acuarela en ese momento, escribió:

-“No estaba convencida de que mis combinaciones improvisadas de pigmento a base de agua, graffito y tiza pudieron ser clasificadas como “acuarelas”, propiamente dichas - en aquellos días todo lo que pintaba en papel eran estudios para óleos de mayor tamaño. Mis imágenes pueden no ajustarse a la valorada tradición topográfica inglesa, pero transformar estos lugares de la vida real, siempre visualmente caóticos y llenos de detalles confuses, en una idea poética unificada”.