76.04 Epsom Downs
Catalogue number 75.04 (74 cm wide by 74 cm high), oils on canvas, Framed.
English
This painting was bought at the Thackeray Gallery in London in 1976. Susan Hawker writes on her website as follows:- ‘Paintings of landscapes seem to be about places out there in the real world, about locations the artist has visited and sketched. In contrast, throughout a long career as a landscape painter my interests have always focused on the poetic transformation of the rural environment, not its illustration. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1974 I have continually produced pictures in Northumberland, Oxfordshire and the Ardèche of region France but always ended up depicting landscapes that seem so ethereal and mysterious it would surely be impossible to actually locate them in the English or French countryside. This nonrepresentational dimension of my work owes a great deal to the abstracted light and space in the late works of Paul Cezanne but my dreamlike groves of trees and riverbanks have nothing of his timeless vision. The mood is entirely different. I inhabit the places I paint tentatively, with less certainty about the sustainability of our environment.’
Español
Epsom Downs, óleo sobre lienzo pintando en 1976 por Susan Hawker. 74 cm ancho x 74 cm alto. Enmarcado.
“Este pintura fue comprada en la Thackeray Gallery de Londres en 1976. Susan Hawker escribe en su web lo siguiente: “Las pinturas de paisajes suelen ser sobre lugares en el mundo real, lugares que el artista ha visitadoy esbozado. Por el contrario, a lo largo de una larga Carrera entornal rural, no en su ilustracion.Desde que mi gradué d en el Royal College of Art en 1974, he pintado continuamente escenas de Northumberland, Oxfordshire y la region de Ardèche en Francia, pero siempre terminaba representando paisajes que paracen tan etéreos y misteriosos que seguramente sería imposible localizalos en una campo inglés o francés. Esta dimension no representacional de mi trabajo le debe mucho a la luz y al espacio abstractos de las últimas obras de Paul Cezanne, pero mis arbolidas de ensueño y las riberas de los ríos no contienen nada de su vision intemporal. El estado de ánimo es completamente diferente. Habito los lugares que intent pintar, con menos certeza sobre la sostenibilidad de nuestro medio ambiente”.
75.06 The Mill, Newbold on Stour II
Catalogue number 75.06
(137 cm wide by 114 cm high), oil on canvas, 1975, framed, by artist Susan Hawker
English
Our weekend house, the Mill at Newbold on Our Stour has already been mentioned (Cat. No. 74.08). It has a long frontage onto the River Stour, an old orchard, a millpond and had an undershot water wheel. The oldest documented record of a Mill on this site is the year 1293, but the current building dates from the middle of the 19th century.
It ceased production of flour in the 1930’s and was converted to residential use in the 1950’s. In 1975, we commissioned these two pictures of the orchard from Susan Hawker (born 1949), then recently graduated from the Royal College of Art, who was living nearby in Oxfordshire. She has gone on to have a distinguished career, regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy, as she can be seen from her website: https://susanhawkwe.weebly.com
Español
The Mill en Newbold on Stour II, Oleo sobre tela, 1975, enmarcados artista Susan Hawker.
“Nuestra casa de fin de semana de Susan Hawker. Oleos sobre tela, 1975, enmarcados. No catalogo 75.06, The Mill (el Molino) en Newbold on Stour, ya fue mencionada anteriormente (no catálogo 74.08, en fecha) 02/11/17.
Tiene una gran vista al río Stour, un antiguo huerto, un estanque e incluso había tenido una rueda de agua para el Molino. El registro documentado más antiguo de un Molino en este lugar es del año 1293 (siglo X111), pero el edificio actuial data de mediados del siglo X1X. Dejó de producer harina en la década de 1930 y pasó a tener uso residencial en la década de 1950. En 1975, encargamos estas dos pinturas del huerto a Susan Hawker (nacida en 1949), que se había graduado recientemente en el Royal College of Art y que vivía en las cercanías de Oxfordshire. Con el tiempo, desarrollóuna notable carrera artística, exponiendo regularmente en la Royal Academy, como se puede ver en su página web: https://susanhawker.weebly.com
75.04 Set of six studies
Catalogue number 75.04
(28cm wide by 20cm high) watercolor on paper, framed)
ENGLISH
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’.
Español
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”.
75.05 - The Mill at Newbold on Stour I
Our weekend house, the Mill at Newbold on Our Stour has already been mentioned (Cat. No. 74.08). It has a long frontage onto the River Stour, an old orchard, a millpond and had had an undershot water wheel. The oldest documented record of a Mill on this site is the year 1293, but the current building dates from the middle of the 19th century. It ceased production of flour in the 1930’s and was converted to residential use in the 1950’s.
Catalogue number 75.05. (120 cm wide by 89 cm high), oil on canvas, 1975, Framed,by Susan Hawker.
ENGLISH
Our weekend house, the Mill at Newbold on Our Stour has already been mentioned (Cat. No. 74.08). It has a long frontage onto the River Stour, an old orchard, a millpond and had had an undershot water wheel. The oldest documented record of a Mill on this site is the year 1293, but the current building dates from the middle of the 19th century. It ceased production of flour in the 1930’s and was converted to residential use in the 1950’s.
In 1975, we commissioned these two pictures of the orchard from Susan Hawker (born 1949), then recently graduated from the Royal College of Art, who was living in nearby Oxfordshire. She has gone on to have a distinguished career, regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy, as she can be seen from her website:
https://susanhawker.weebly.com
Spanish
The Mill en Newbold on Stour 1(120cm de ancho x 89 cm de alto), Artista Susan Hawker.
Oleos sobre tela, 1975, enmarcados. Número de catálogo 75.05.
“Nuestra casa de fin de semana, The Mill(el Molino) en Newbold on Stour, ya fue mencionada anteriormente(no catálogo 74.08, en fecha )02/11/17.
Tiene una gran vista al río Stour, un antiguo huerto, un estanque e incluso había tenido una rueda de agua para el Molino. El registro documentado más antiguo de un Molino en este lugar es del año 1293 (siglo X111), pero el edificio actuial data de mediados del siglo X1X. Dejó de producer harina en la década de 1930 y pasó a tener uso residencial en la década de 1950. En 1975, encargamos estas dos pinturas del huerto a Susan Hawker (nacida en 1949), que se había graduado recientemente en el Royal College of Art y que vivía en las cercanías de Oxfordshire. Con el tiempo, desarrollóuna notable Carrera artística, exponiendo regularmente en la Ropyal Academy, como se puede ver en su página web : https://susanhawker.weebly.com