Dwayne Warwick Original Oil Painting on Canvas Cottage Garden Landscape Floral

Description

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Dwayne Warwick "Garden Pathway" Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Featuring a cottage landscape scene

Biography of artist:
DWAYNE WARWICK was an artist known for his watercolor paintings. He was reared in Mississippi in the 1940's. He was known to have artistic talent as a child but little opportunity for development in a farming community where his parents taught school. Not having any background in his rural environment to the allow him to consider a career in fine art, Warwick studied commercial art at the University of Southern Mississippi. After working in that field, he soon discovered that he and that occupation had little in common and chose instead to begin shaping his career in fine art with only rudimentary training in that area. Following his marriage to Henrietta Green, an artist, the two painters made their home in Nashville, Tennessee. There they began to exhibit their paintings at local and regional outdoor art shows. Over the years, Warwick's skills in landscapes, garden scenes, and still life were honed through constant demand for these subjects in his classic water color manner. He expanded his exhibitions to galleries in Jackson, Miss., New Orleans, and Nashville. Though accomplishing significant success, Warwick never lost his affinity for the work of the Dutch Masters who had so profoundly intrigued him in his earlier studies of art history at Southern Miss. He finally succumbed to the voices of the past and began in earnest to paint the detailed, yet subtle, interior scenes that he so long admired in the masterpieces of Vermeer and De Hooch. The result of his years of study continues to please art enthusiasts, admirers, and accomplished artists wherever his work is exhibited. Through composition, design and highly individualized painting methods, he achieves in watercolor the light and depth of shadow that characterizes oil paintings. In the early 1990's Warwick, Henrietta, and their two children moved to Springfield, Tennessee where Henrietta died in 1995. He continues his work there, and the recently remarried Warwick and his wife, Bobbie Ruth Heikka look forward to the challenges of the future.


Additional:
“I think most people perceive artists’ painting with the same ease and effortlessness that a singer sings. For me, painting continues to be a battle. It’s like going to a destination on a tight wire -- the purpose of the trip is overshadowed by the struggle to stay on the wire,” says Springfield, Tennessee artist Dwayne Warwick.
In viewing Dwayne Warwick’s paintings, it is difficult to imagine such struggling. The ease and grace of lines and forms unite with warm and glowing light reminiscent of 17th century Dutch painters. Warwick’s watercolors reflect a classical feeling which he says is inspired by the old masters.

“I owe much to Charles Ambrose of the University of Southern Mississippi. While his drawing tutelage disciplined my technique, it was his art history classes which Warwick’s fostered my interest in the classical art of past centuries.” Studying from books and useums, Warwick developed an interest and challenge in being a student of traditional methods of painting. “The notes of Bach and Beethoven are available for music students, but the old masters left no records of their painting methods and formulas. The real knowledge of traditional painting is not widespread,” notes Warwick. Even without the recipes of the masters, Warwick’s work is certainly a fine attempt at recreation.


Gallery Price $7,500

Condition

Dwayne Warwick Original Oil Painting on Canvas Cottage Garden Landscape Floral

Dimensions

41.5” x 41.5” x 2”
Sans Frame – 36” x 36”
(L x W x H)