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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