Five Questions/Five Art Works Meets Esther Tyson

This photograph was taken whilst I undertook a mural at a small school in Slovakia. It was -5. My hands were ice and I had a constant drip on the end of my nose.

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THE HOUSE SPARROW was a piece I produced from my kitchen window on a cold winter’s morning. I was fortunate for a time, to have an old hedgerow at the bottom of the garden, full to the brim with sparrows. There was snow on the ground and the sparrows were all fluffed out and tubby looking. They sat for minutes at a time which was a great help to my brushwork.

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THE RED DEER was a studio piece. I spent a number of weeks painting and drawing the deer – getting to know their form, behaviour and looking at the colour in the deer and the landscape of the small reserve in south Cumbria. I made written notes and colour notes, a film and took this of information back to the studio to work. It was a long journey and this piece was the culmination of weeks of work.

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This toad sat on my kitchen table for a short while before I returned it to the log pile.

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Five Questions/Five Art Works Meets Esther Tyson

In Her Chat With Harriet Mead, Painter Esther Tyson Talks About The Poetry And Mania Of Creating

Written By Harriet Mead (Author's Bio)

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Esther Tyson's work reflects her being as a product of England's Lake District, that romantic, pastoral interface of wood and water that inspired many of the greatest poets in the English language. She paints with a flourish, brushstrokes that race around like energized electrons. What she puts down in two dimensions, her friends say, translates into her own personality. Harriet Mead, new president of the Society of Wildlife Artists in the United Kingdom, has been an admirer of this young talent who has found her narrative voice.

In this installment of Five Questions/Five Art Works, Wildlife Art Journal's conversation about art that never ends, Mead asks Tyson about her motivation. Born in 1973, she was brought up in a small town at the edge of the Lake District, Cumbria. She currently lives and works in the South Peak District, Derbyshire.

Tyson studied at Carlisle College of Art and Design, Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art and then London's Royal College of Art. She has exhibited widely in the UK and her work has also earned acclaim in London where she was short listed for the Prestigious Hunting Art Prizes.

Tyson says that in her work she searches to find the origin of her inner connection to the natural world without resorting to sanguine sentimentality. The profusion of sentient stimuli are what fire her approach to painting from life. We thought it appropriate that Mead's interview with Tyson open with a passage from...

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Author: Harriet Mead

Post Date:December 20th, 2010

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'In this installment of Five Questions/Five Art Works, Harriet Mead interviews painter Esther Tyson. Follow the thread of an ongoing interview that started 18 months ago in northern California and, by going artist to artist, has crossed a continent and an ocean. '

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