Wolf Kahn Pastels

Today I headed to Borders with my 30% discount voucher and bought this book, Wolf Kahn Pastels. I need to read something about this artist whom I first saw on an artist’s calendar years ago and whose paintings I love for their colour. Without reading anything of him, why he paints and what he paints [...]

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Wolf Kahn again…

After last year’s exhibition, someone mentioned that I should look at some of Wolf Kahn’s art work as mine reminded them of his. I’ve just done this and a little shocked. Back in 2007,  I used Wolf Kahn’s work for an exercise called ‘Conversation with an Artist’ – we had to paint one of our [...]

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Wolf Kahn and Friesach

After completing the Te Uku painting and getting so inspired, I wanted to do another painting ‘after Wolf Kahn’. Inspired by his ‘Deep Purple Barn’, I completed this painting of a building in the village of Friesach, Austria. The photo I took of this had scaffolding all over it, and other stuff, but I was [...]

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Wolf Kahn and Te Uke

One of the exercises from our course which really worked for me – picking an artist we liked, researching him/her and producing a painting as if we had had a conversation with him/her. I chose Wolf Kahn whose paintings I loved for their vibrant colour. My result was ‘Te Uku’ pictured here (now in the collection [...]

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