James Bateman
ArtistUSA
About Artist:
Well known contemporary painter James Bateman, (b. 1961), is primarily a self taught artist.
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Artist's Statement:
It may be no more than the tilt of a girl's head, or a hand gesture, that I find striking... some small thing that I perceive to have a ring of truth ahbout it... and feel inspired, or compelled to capture in paint.
It's these images, intrinsic to human experience - these expressions of "human-ness" - that I use as an index point in my work. Whether it be guised in a more or less historical context or as a loosely woven fantasy, they offer a glimpse of something integral to the human condition...something genuine that we recognize in ourselves and our surroundings as we interact with one another and with the world around us...and that are manifest to us in our individual experience.
Most of my pieces have no underlying political message or hidden agenda. They are interesting figures in interesting, sometimes minimalist compositions...visual mantras to one's own inner speculation.
I use natural materials and processes in my work, such as oil technique on wooden panels or canvas, often in combination with other disciplines such as gold and copper gilding with mother of pearl or other accents embedded in oil and varnish glazes.
Of course, I continue to embrace and practice the traditional oil techniques of the Renaissance, Mannerist and Flemish masters as well.
In much of my recent work I've combined arcane gilding processes, gleaned through research of ancient cultures from around the world, including Orthodox Icon techniques, with methods devised in my own studio over the past forty years to develop compositions created with different shades and colors of leaf - each with a unique aura that greatly enhances available natural light - used with semi-transparent glazing to achieve a luminous radiant quality that lends a subtle ambience to these pieces that has sometimes been referred to as a, "Stained Glass" effect. My works are an exploration into the nuances of light refraction, and create different auras at different times of day or seasons of the year. In much the same way as the Flemish masters, I achieve figures which seem to subtly alter their expressions as the light shifts quarters throughout the day. Different spectrums of light illuminating different layers of pigment, influencing and bringing to the fore different colors that vie for one's attention.
My work focuses primarily on human forms - glowing flesh seen through blankets of light and writhing drapery - although I also include floral, wildlife and other subjects from nature - in compositions that sometimes describe mathematical equations as well as geometric forms, sometimes resulting in seemingly exaggerated or amplified figures in formless or minimalist dimensional spaces.
Natural beings in subtly altered and ethereally timeless worlds that isolate or highlight some facet of experience.
Lustrous portals to an introspective, non-dimensional awareness.
About Artwork:
Original fine art mixed media portrait of iconic American actress Elizabeth Montgomery, in character as, Darien "Dare" Guiness, from the 1963 neo-noir film, Johnny Cool.
Oil Color, Japan Color, Asphaltum Shading and Oil Glazing, on Abysinnian Gold Leaf, and pure Copper Leaf, on Masonite panel w/ Asphaltum stained Poplar insert frame
James Bateman
Elizabeth
- 2016
- 24 x 32 inches
- Fine Art Category: paintings
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Origin: USA
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Issued by: Signed Bill of Sale/COA.
- Provenance: Ships directly from the Artist's Studio.
- Signed: Signed lower right
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- Price: $1,680.00 USD
- Seller: James Bateman, USA
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- Artplode ID: 4411
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About Artist:
Well known contemporary painter James Bateman, (b. 1961), is primarily a self taught artist.
?
Artist's Statement:
It may be no more than the tilt of a girl's head, or a hand gesture, that I find striking... some small thing that I perceive to have a ring of truth ahbout it... and feel inspired, or compelled to capture in paint.
It's these images, intrinsic to human experience - these expressions of "human-ness" - that I use as an index point in my work. Whether it be guised in a more or less historical context or as a loosely woven fantasy, they offer a glimpse of something integral to the human condition...something genuine that we recognize in ourselves and our surroundings as we interact with one another and with the world around us...and that are manifest to us in our individual experience.
Most of my pieces have no underlying political message or hidden agenda. They are interesting figures in interesting, sometimes minimalist compositions...visual mantras to one's own inner speculation.
I use natural materials and processes in my work, such as oil technique on wooden panels or canvas, often in combination with other disciplines such as gold and copper gilding with mother of pearl or other accents embedded in oil and varnish glazes.
Of course, I continue to embrace and practice the traditional oil techniques of the Renaissance, Mannerist and Flemish masters as well.
In much of my recent work I've combined arcane gilding processes, gleaned through research of ancient cultures from around the world, including Orthodox Icon techniques, with methods devised in my own studio over the past forty years to develop compositions created with different shades and colors of leaf - each with a unique aura that greatly enhances available natural light - used with semi-transparent glazing to achieve a luminous radiant quality that lends a subtle ambience to these pieces that has sometimes been referred to as a, "Stained Glass" effect. My works are an exploration into the nuances of light refraction, and create different auras at different times of day or seasons of the year. In much the same way as the Flemish masters, I achieve figures which seem to subtly alter their expressions as the light shifts quarters throughout the day. Different spectrums of light illuminating different layers of pigment, influencing and bringing to the fore different colors that vie for one's attention.
My work focuses primarily on human forms - glowing flesh seen through blankets of light and writhing drapery - although I also include floral, wildlife and other subjects from nature - in compositions that sometimes describe mathematical equations as well as geometric forms, sometimes resulting in seemingly exaggerated or amplified figures in formless or minimalist dimensional spaces.
Natural beings in subtly altered and ethereally timeless worlds that isolate or highlight some facet of experience.
Lustrous portals to an introspective, non-dimensional awareness.
About Artwork:
Original fine art mixed media portrait of iconic American actress Elizabeth Montgomery, in character as, Darien "Dare" Guiness, from the 1963 neo-noir film, Johnny Cool.
Oil Color, Japan Color, Asphaltum Shading and Oil Glazing, on Abysinnian Gold Leaf, and pure Copper Leaf, on Masonite panel w/ Asphaltum stained Poplar insert frame
