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OBBY OSS PADSTOW
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OBBY OSS PADSTOW
by Tom Henderson Smith
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Year created: 2014
Original Size: 80cm x 80cm
Original Medium: Acrylic Work
Art Style: Realism-Representational
Art Subject: Dance
Artist comment about this artwork: " Its true to say that Ive nurtured an ambition to make a painting based on the Padstow Obby Oss ever since moving to Cornwall more than thirty years ago Of all the Cornish Festivals this is probably the one whose folk origins stretch furthest back into the mists of time Now I find myself living only ten miles or so from Padstow and so this year Gabrielle and I hot-footed it over there back on May Day this year Ever since then Ive been mulling over the references I collected at that time and recently finished distilling them into a Padstow obby oss painting httpswwwhendersonsmithcoukproductpadstow-obby-oss A complex series of inherently unstable diagonals and a play of shadows and highlights seemed to offer a way of suggesting the teetering and swaying movement of this curiously primitive figure His disc-like frame seemed to swirl around precariously charged with spring energy The highlights of red and white on both his costume and those of his attendants mark him out as the red oss as distinct from the smaller blue oss which appeared at other times that day and in other parts of the town The strangeness and the play of shapes and colours here provided all the visual music and dance that I as a painter could wish for as material for a celebratory painting on this extraordinary theme".
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Formative years spent in equatorial Africa were followed by school in Yorkshire and a Fine Art Degree at Newcastle-upon Tyne University. Awarded a Bunzl travel scholarship, he then spent two further years travelling and studying art in Europe while based in Florence. Settling back in the United Kingdom led to a twenty-four year career in art teaching. He left teaching in 1999 to devote more time to painting and has exhibited widely since then. He now operates from his studio in the heart of Cornwall

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