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FLOWERS
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Andrew Lawson
writes:
'There is an urgency about John Moat's painting, as if he can't
help himself responding to something seen. Frequent subjects are
plants and flower arrangements from the garden. The annual tumescence
of Amaryllis bulbs sends the sap rising in his brush. He is totally
relaxed about technique. Onto a base of hand-made paper he builds
up glazes of water colours and inks, sometimes diluted with varnish
or wallpaper paste. The surface is scratched back to the paper in
places and built up elsewhere with wax, gouache, oil paint, pastels
and even gold leaf. The resulting layers of colour glow like stained
glass.'
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