Monday, 18 May 2015

Nastutiums Written by Ewan M Brown

Nasturtiums by Cressida Campbell
Written Ewan M Brown

The Australian artist Cressida Campbell lives in Sydney and belongs the art style still life. She paints with unique-state colour woodblock paints. She learned the woodblock techniques in Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo in 1980.

The artwork ‘Nasturtiums’, painted in 2002, is a painting with the same woodblock paints that Cressida Campbell uses in all of her paintings. The painting is 58.4x60cm and has a vertical axis. This piece has three bowls with growing nasturtiums inside them near the edge of a diagonally facing table. The painting is a close up of nasturtiums growing near an edge of a table.

The colours used and seen in nasturtiums are shades of darkish blue, bright yellow and orange with a dark red, white, grey and mixes of both light and dark green. The painting shows the true beauty of nasturtiums with a lovely subtle colours along with a complementary mix of darker colours that balance out the piece.

This painting is representing the beauty of nasturtiums. Cressida Campbell thought the planet was deserving of a painting and so she made the painting. It has no known significants.


I firmly enjoy this delightable, tantalising and fresh painting. It is the definition of love. I thoroughly enjoy and praise this delectable artwork and its skill involved.

signing off
Ewan M Brown

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