It is always lovely to see our artists when
they come to deliver new work. Equally as nice, is getting to see what
delights they bring us. With Philip Raskin, you can pretty much predict
what you are going to get…… choppy waves in the sea of the foreground,
some soft and misty hills in the background and a turbulent, stormy, yet
colouful big sky. I know the formula well. And yet, every time Philip
brings his work I am amazed at how different each painting is – each
with it’s own character and effect.
And every single one of them beautiful.
Philip Raskin has
a singular and distinctive style in which he exploits acrylic’s most
robust impasto qualities along with its most sensitive and delicate.
” I tend to paint very private places
for the viewer to own and enjoy: no houses, no telegraph poles – no
signs of man’s imposition on the landscape, just the driftwood of an ebb
tide and silence – broken only by the lapping of water and gulls
ascending”
