LIGHTS UP

We are delighted to announce Oliver Akers Douglas’ forthcoming London exhibition. It will include some 40 new paintings – dynamic interpretations of the British landscape, with works from Wiltshire and the west coast of Scotland featuring most prominently. As one of the country’s best known landscape painters, his works are characterised by sophistication of colour and accomplished handling of paint while also demonstrating a shift towards a more abstract and heightened colourist approach.

Describing himself as an ‘unapologetically romantic’ artist, Oliver spends long periods in the remote and empty locations that inform his art. The resulting works are not only records of his experience, responding to the shifting conditions he finds there, but riveting explorations in paint itself. Using brushes and palette knives, the pigment is applied spontaneously with great gestural freedom, creating fluid and textured surfaces that pulsate with energy. The resulting works have a passionate connection with landscape while also demonstrating the transformative power of painterly expression.

Described by art critic Matthew Dennison as ‘the foremost landscape painter of his generation’, Oliver has an international reputation with works in both public and private collections around the world. In the two years since his last major solo exhibition, Oliver has been busy with private commissions and produced a successful exhibition of Alpine paintings in Klosters, Switzerland.