The First Swallow Returns by Gill Bustamante
Painting, Oil on Canvas
102.0 cm x 102.0 cm
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The First Swallow Returns is a 40x40x1.5 inches oil on canvas painting showing a solitary swallow arriving back to her English meadow in springtime. Grasses and white meadow flowers are in the foreground and through them you just catch glimpses of a river which meanders diagonally from right to left and into the fields beyond. The sky is blue and the sun streams across from the right. The feel of the painting is one of relief and optimism as the return of the swallows from Africa heralds spring and summer in England. This painting was inspired by a stretch of the river Medway that you can walk from Fordcombe, near Tunbridge Wells (postcode TN3 0RS). I walk there often as it sits in a wide river plain with gentle hills of the Kent Weald on each side of it. The river is not large at this point and there are lots of wildflowers along the edges. Swallows like the river as they can swoop low over it gathering insects. It is art nouveau and contemporary in style made by building layers of paint up over several weeks. It has wide white edges and is ready to hang. /watch?v=oqK7aXAYaWc
GILL BUSTAMANTE
Forest Row, East Sussex United Kingdom
I am a professional artist based in Sussex and am known for my large, original semi abstract, contemporary landscape paintings which blend the near-abstract with the traditional. I have painted since I was three. It is the thing I am best at and it ... More
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Artwork Details
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support Type: Canvas
Artwork Height: 102.0 cm
Artwork Width: 102.0 cm
Depth: 4.0 cm
Weight: 2.0 kg
Ready to Hang: Yes
Framed: No
Year Created: 2021
Signed: Yes
Signature Location: bottom right
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