2011年10月14日星期五

Artist inspired by Suffolk’s big skies, its light and landscape

The artist, who has a talent for capturing the intensity of both light and colour in his works, moved into the former farm cottage two years ago and has decided to shift his art courses from his London studio in Hackney to his new base in the heart of the county.Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room.

Hugo, who has regular exhibitions in London and New York,Unlike traditional Hemroids , said: “I lived in Suffolk for many, many years but then about seven years ago decided to sell up and move to London because I felt that I needed to be in the heart of the capital. I needed to be at the heart of the art world.

“But, I didn’t cut my links with Suffolk entirely. We came back for holidays and came back to visit friends and I realised very quickly that not only did I miss Suffolk but my family did too. My wife and my boys missed it dreadfully. They missed the space and the freedom that a life in the country affords.They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market.

“So we swapped our house in London for a flat and bought a house in the rural Suffolk in St James South Elmham which was in a very poor state which we have enjoyed turning into what is very much our home.”

Hugo has also turned farm outbuildings into a studio complex which, not only, provides him with workspace but also gives him a place to run his courses.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical,

He said that the process of finding a place in the country was very soul-destroying because they wanted a house which they could put their own stamp on. “We were working on a budget and got quite forlorn because either they were done up to the nines or they would cost an absolute fortune to convert.

“And we started at Ufford and worked our way up towards Southwold and across to Beccles. We found this place and we thought it so wild, so amazing that we put an offer in even though we couldn’t see it properly because the whole area was buried under six feet of snow.”

Having spent much of his freetime constructing their dream home, he is now about to return to teaching. He says that teaching has helped give his own work a new burst of life – making his recent work much more impressionistic.

Light frequently floods his pictures and you are never entirely sure where the light source is coming from.

This is reflected by the design of his studio which is surrounded on all sides by large windows looking out onto open fields and those famous Suffolk skies. Even on cloudy, overcast days light floods into the room and Hugo transfers this to his canvases.

He loves windows and likes blurring the line between what is inside and what is outside. He said that as his work has taken on a greater impressionist influence he works hard at keeping a light touch. He is wary of appearing too heavy-handed.

“I don’t want to paint pictures that look anyway agonised over. They are, for me, celebrations of life. They are about light and colour and the things that make one want to get up in the morning.

Hugo hopes that next year his Suffolk house will provide a rural escape and a focus on landscape painting.

“In fact one of the very odd ironies of moving back to London was that no sooner was I back there than I became incredibly interested in painting landscapes again. I am really enjoying working back here in Suffolk and getting to grips with the Suffolk landscape.”

The last five years have provided Hugo with something of a creative rebirth. In 2003, he was so disillusioned with his work that he piled a sizeable number of completed canvases into a large heap in his garden and set light to them. He then parted company with Messum’s his long-term London gallery,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose , and opted for a series of independently curated exhibitions in the capital and then started a very profitable relationship with influential Wally Findlay Gallery with outlets in New York and Florida.

For Hugo, his life has been a lifelong quest to refine his artistic identity. Although Hugo comes from an artistic background – his father and uncles were all accomplished amateur artists – he is the first member of his family to make a living from his work.

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