Art in the field
Nov 12, 2020
3 minutes
WHAT’S your favourite part of a sporting day? For me, it’s the waiting: sitting on your horse by a hedge at dawn on an autumn morning, or admiring the woodland before the first pheasant comes over. It is the same for landscape artist Oliver Akers Douglas. He, too, is engaged by the sporting scene at the moment just before it springs into life.
“I don’t know what it is but I get very excited when I can see precisely what I want to do in depicting a painter you can be busy the whole time but actually I need the sun to be out. It doesn’t mean anything to me until that moment that I am captivated.”
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