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Lot 20 – FEATURE ART – John Lancashire, ‘You Can’t Tell The Sky What To Do’
You Can’t Tell The Sky What To Do | Oil on Canvas x3 (910mm x 1210mm x 30mm)
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Auction Lot Details
John has created a triptych collection ‘You Can’t Tell The Sky What To Do’, especially for the 30th Hawke’s Bay Wine Auction. This collection can be displayed as a single piece or split into three canvas’s. 3 x canvas stretchers @ 910 W x 1210 H x 30. combined measurement. 2730 x 1210.
‘When I paint, sometimes I have the words first (which may become a title) sometimes I paint and the words arrive, as was the case with ‘You Can’t Tell The Sky What To Do’. Living in a region that is charged with the cultivation and delivery of a huge array of valuable produce.. I have always been amazed at the tenacity and science of this ‘calling‘.
What really hits home for me though, is you can have all the available technologies.. all the hope and investiture.. all your ducks in a row.. You still have to take an educated punt on the elements.
Hence.. ‘you can’t tell the sky what to do ‘.. but if you listen long enough, you know what to ask.’
Additional Details
John Lancashire is a contemporary New Zealand painter living in Hawke’s Bay, also known as Monday Painter.
John has been an artist for 20 years, over the past 10 years, he has built a reputation as a serious artist. Working in fine oils on canvas, Lancashire specializes in expressionist still life works imbued with character.
Images of cut flowers in vessels are rendered with loose, gestural brushstrokes in contrasting warm and cool colours; sensitively allowing us to bring an object together through a beguiling combination of colour and form.
Instagram: monday.painter
Auction Lot Details
John has created a triptych collection ‘You Can’t Tell The Sky What To Do’, especially for the 30th Hawke’s Bay Wine Auction. This collection can be displayed as a single piece or split into three canvas’s. 3 x canvas stretchers @ 910 W x 1210 H x 30. combined measurement. 2730 x 1210.
‘When I paint, sometimes I have the words first (which may become a title) sometimes I paint and the words arrive, as was the case with ‘You Can’t Tell The Sky What To Do’. Living in a region that is charged with the cultivation and delivery of a huge array of valuable produce.. I have always been amazed at the tenacity and science of this ‘calling‘.
What really hits home for me though, is you can have all the available technologies.. all the hope and investiture.. all your ducks in a row.. You still have to take an educated punt on the elements.
Hence.. ‘you can’t tell the sky what to do ‘.. but if you listen long enough, you know what to ask.’
Additional Details
John Lancashire is a contemporary New Zealand painter living in Hawke’s Bay, also known as Monday Painter.
John has been an artist for 20 years, over the past 10 years, he has built a reputation as a serious artist. Working in fine oils on canvas, Lancashire specializes in expressionist still life works imbued with character.
Images of cut flowers in vessels are rendered with loose, gestural brushstrokes in contrasting warm and cool colours; sensitively allowing us to bring an object together through a beguiling combination of colour and form.