Artist Al Saralis
The
luminous and lyrical figurative paintings of Al Saralis are composed around a
solitary figure set against a backdrop which is deliberately stripped of
narrative.They have a haunting beauty and an enduring, almost other-worldly
fascination which, time and again, evokes a deeply personal reaction from
viewers.Al’s work has been featured widely in the press since he was named as
one of the top 10 British artists to invest in by leading USA art publication
‘Complex’. Most recently he was featured Creative Boom magazine for his moving
and beautiful portraits.Al is currently exploring the connection between
humanity and nature through his art. Inspired by a short poem from American
writer Robert Frost entitled Nothing Gold Can Stay, his most recent series of
works reflects this. One of the most important messages of the poem is that
once we recognise how fleeting and precious life is we will appreciate it all
the more and will learn to take advantage of the beauty and joy to be found in
every passing moment. The theme of these works, along with the style, the
composition and the execution is both classical and contemporary which is again
attuned with the poet’s fascination with time and the quality of timelessness
which is so elegantly evoked.Influenced by the classical beauty of Renaissance
painting and intrigued by the changing representations of the human form
through history, Al has studied and taught life drawing for many years,
believing it to be a skill that should be constantly practiced. Working from
his own photo shoots and a portfolio of photographs and sketches he has built
up over many years, he creates his painterly portraits in oil using brushes and
palette knives to give a highly textured, impasto impression of radiant beauty
and exquisite beauty.Al was born and brought up in the industrial valleys area
of South Wales, but he now lives and works in rural Hampshire.
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