Keith Grinter - Symphonie Fantastique - Exhibition
This exhibition brings two mediums together in a vibrant and ecletic collection of Oil on Canvas and
Hand Blown Glass works. It is joyful and fun.
Exhibition - Symphonie Fantastique
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This series is based on the five movements of Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.
Berlioz was a French romantic composer who lived from 1803 to 1869. Symphonie Fantastique was composed as a result of his obsessive infatuation with Harriet Smithson, an Irish Shakespearean actress. "I base my painting on drawings made while walking (kinesthetic drawings). This is a drawing technique I developed to capture the every day when I was studying for my Masters in Art and Design at AUT. I use oil on canvas for the wall paintings and paradise paints (metal oxides in lead monosilicate glass powder) on a sand blasted glass blank for the glass vessels. The blank is about 12 to 15cm tall when I paint it. Once painted it is heated slowly overnight in a kiln to 560c and then picked up on a blowing iron. It is covered in two layers of molten glass and blown to the final shape. In both cases I usually start with an underpainting in the complementary colour that I intend to finish with. For the paintings on canvas I use one layer of undiluted oil paint on top of the underpainting, working wet on wet, as I attempt to create the textures I am after. This technique allows tiny patches of the underpainting to show through. For the glass painting I use two layers of the final colour to allow for the expansion of the vessel and the stretching of the paint when we blow it out to its final shape and size. This stretching allows some of the underpainting to show through and creates some interesting painterly effects." This exhibition brings two mediums together in a vibrant and ecletic collection of Oil on Canvas and Hand Blown Glass works. It is joyful and fun and tells a wonderful story. |
