 Artist, South-African born Vanessa Rousseau Richardson, has been living in Cornwall for 4 years with her husband Peter, where she has found much Inspiration by the natural beauty which draws so many artists to Cornwall.
Her style is very unique and Vanessa's focus is on three dimentional texture on canvas using mixed medium, her own style of modern impasto.
Vanessa has taken the style and technique of Impasto to new and very modern heights. By employing a very heavy impasto technique, she is not just relying on the thick paint to provide that essential element of deep texture, depth and a acute sense of reality.
She uses various other texture mediums such as gels, plasters and pastes, to make her work come alive, creating an illusion as it were and an expression of her emotions drawing you into the subject.
Her styles and variety reflects her colourful background having grown up in South Africa and having lived there till 1998. It can certainly be said that her artistic abilities is a natural talent she has been exploring since she was only a little girl.
Vanessa is mostly a self taught artist. She started art lessons right from the outset of her school years from 1980 till she graduated from high school in 1991 with an Distinction in Art. During these formative years of her life she found much inspiration from a well known local artist in her home town Knysna, called Tony Wyles who had his work distributed to the UK and Europe.
Her uncle, Martiin Rousseau, a well respected Still life artist in SA (whom did a lot of work for the South African Broadcasting Corporation), also influenced her artistic passion. Mostly though, she developed her skill over the years simply by her painting and experimenting. Her inspiration stems both from her passion for life and the beauty that surrounds her.
Vanessa is currently painting a wide variety of truly incredible waves which because of the 3D effect gives the impression it is going to crash over you. She constantly studies large waves crashing to help her create the same impact, but on canvas.
Since settling in the UK in Nottingham from 1998 onwards, Vanessa still kept up her Art by the odd painting here and there with a few pieces on display in the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham during that time.
Moving to Cornwall in 2003, it has been her desire to really start producing more works, and this is now the time when she is emerging as one of the Newest additions to the Cornish Artists Scene, and with a storm.
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Size: 8.00" x 8.00"
Price: £75.00
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