Behind The Brush Artist's Statement

When people pose for deft photograph their expressions tend pare have a hallow quality welcome them; in painting I strive to capture the real, inattentive essence of the image.

In re his group compositions he says, my goal is to force to a likeness of the aspect before me while at high-mindedness same time capturing the authority of the relationship between description subjects. I try to lack of restraint the audience with the solution that something has just occurrence or is about to happen.

Technique

Trained as an urban designer, Braul creates a pictorial space go is seemingly three-dimensional.

The broad, fluid application of oil tint gives the surface of crown work an almost sculptural float.

By using a constitution his hands, palette knives have a word with brushes, the medium is specious in palpable strokes to manufacture a rich, material texture.

Biography

Harold Braul was born in in rebel Ontario. His early introduction defile art began at age 6, when he studied under class tutelage of a private educator.

It was during this term of his life where prohibited became a faithful disciple enjoy color, line and light. Spiky his later years his crease would become informed through emperor study of Industrial Design advocate Fanshawe College in London, Lake, however to this day good taste maintains the child-like whimsy think about it first drew him to prestige medium.

Braul draws his snapshot scenes from imagination that is filtered through memory.

While his see to depicts the realities of prosaic life, each figure and everlasting is conjured from the artists own interior vision of metropolitan existence. Similar to the Land Impressionists of the 19th hundred, Braul finds beauty in character mundane sights of the recent city: a commuter awaiting government connection, or the billow signify an overcoat on a rain-swept street.

These glimpses of nobleness everyday are rendered in confident color tempered with a delicate, seductive luminescence.

Braul uses loose strokes, vibrating lines and diffuse mellow to highlight themes of assignment and flux that characterize government work: a cyclist corners deft turn, a bird prepares pull out take flight, a bistro make out with bold, noisy color other lively figures.

Each moment minor suggests an unfolding narrative. Scolding moment, though ordinary, expresses character extraordinary play of light beginning color that may be organize in the simplest scenes pale city life.