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January 4, 2021
Grace Ebert

“Uprising” (2020). All images © Jason Anderson, shared with permission
Jason Anderson visualizes city skylines, swooping highway exchanges, and a range of urban landscapes through prismatic, impasto strokes of oil paint. The U.K.-based artist begins each painting with a black-and-white sketch before turning to the linen canvas and translating the lively works. In recent months, he’s incorporated more curved lines and saturated tones alongside the pastels he’s used previously, resulting in abstract scenes of horizons and city centers rendered through a mosaic of color.
“I relish the often frantic nature of mixing and arranging the paint in thick impressionistic daubs and submitting to a process that creates its own detail and form,” the artist says in a statement. “This forces me to be bold and decisive; it also produces a kaleidoscope of shape and tone (reminiscent of stained-glass) which portrays the ever-present movement and energy found in nature.”
Although all of Anderson’s works are currently sold out, you can follow updates on his commissions and new pieces on his site and view his finished paintings and sketches on Instagram.

“Terminus” (2019)
“Sheer” (2020)
“Mistral” (2020)
“Centrifuge” (2020)
“Plaid” (2020)
“Pulse” (2020)
“Branch” (2020)
“Hearth” (2020)

#abstract
#cityscapes
#landscapes
#oil painting
#painting

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