Natalie Milner visits the newly opened former studio of Australian painter Sidney Nolan to get a glimpse of the influenTial artist’s unique working methods
Balanced on a stepladder, Sidney Nolan would use paint-splattered binoculars the wrong way round to look at his work. The Australian artist would deliberately upend this visual aid to gain distance from his flat canvas – which he would lie on the flagstone floor – without disturbing the fresh paint. He loved a bird’s eye view. Indeed, it would not have been unusual to find him rigged up to a beam in his studio suspended above his work, armed with spray paints.
Between 1983 and his death in 1992, Nolan used two 17th-century barns as his studios. They were part of his home on the Welsh border, The Rodd, where he spent the last years of his life with his third wife Mary. Now, as part of the year-long celebrations surrounding the centenary of his birth, the artist’s final studio has been opened to the public alongside a display of his paintings in the Tithe Barn Gallery. Together, these spaces reveal insights into his methods as well as never-seen-before work.
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Still life IN 3 HOURS
Former BP Portrait Award runner-up FELICIA FORTE guides you through a simple, structured approach to painting alla prima that tackles dark, average and light colours in turn
Movement in composition
Through an analysis of three masterworks, landscape painter and noted author MITCHELL ALBALA shows how you can animate landscape composition with movement
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The Working Artist
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Washes AND GLAZES
Art Academy’s ROB PEPPER introduces an in-depth guide to incorporating various techniques into your next masterpiece. Artwork by STAN MILLER, CHRIS ROBINSON and MICHELE ILLING
Hands
LAURA SMITH continues her new four-part series, which encourages you to draw elements of old master paintings, and this month’s focus is on capturing hands
Vincent van Gogh
To celebrate The Courtauld’s forthcoming landmark display of the troubled Dutch master’s self-portraits, STEVE PILL looks at the stories behind 10 of the most dramatic works on display
BRING THE drama
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Serena Rowe
The Scottish painter tells STEVE PILL why time is precious, why emotional responses to colour are useful, and how she finds focus every day with the help of her studio wall
Bill Jacklin
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