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'I don’t sketch in front of a landscape, instead I prefer to take photographs then spend a long time in my studio drawing from the photograph – paring down the image – until I don’t need the photograph anymore – the shapes and the forms become instinctive to me. The photograph is there to help me find the right lines, the final picture should capture the memory of the visceral experience I felt standing in front of those trees.
I’m not making a tree. I’m making an image of a tree. Is there anything that anyone could ever make that would be better than a tree?! There is no new subject matter – just a new treatment of it.' - Paul Hogg, November 2024
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Paul HoggA Line of Trees 2, 2022£500.00
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Paul HoggA Line of Trees 2 (Variation in Burnt Sienna 2), 2024£500.00
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Paul HoggClouds Seen Through A Stand of Trees, 2024£950.00
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Paul HoggTrees Beneath a Lemon Yellow Sky, 2023£750.00
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Paul HoggSky, Trees, One Cloud Passing, 2023£1,000.00
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Paul HoggTree in a Landscape with Clouds (Blue Sky), 2021£450.00
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Paul HoggTree in a Landscape with Clouds (Purple Sky), 2019£450.00
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Paul HoggTrees Under a Grey Sky, 2023£1,000.00
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"Quiet, hidden, a blackbird mother sits fast on four eggs in the bay tree, until one day I strain to hear the hatchling chicks’ thin insistent cries. The world turns. Days lengthen, get brighter, and now the fledglings flit from bush to tree chasing their parents, hungry to be fed. I watch them from the kitchen, inching my way into their winged world. The weather is unusually warm for the season. Skies blue and cloudless, the noonday sun prickling the skin, heat tightening the chest, parching the palette. I set down a bowl of water on the dry grass.Seven-thirty am, three days later, making tea, I look towards the lawn and see a familiar shape lying on its back. Stilled in its feathered perfection, unmarked, dead only a short while. The eyes have yet to sink, but the feathers are already flecked with the tiny eggs of flies.From photographs I make four drawings, each one further away from a naturalistic depiction until, unconsciously perhaps, I form the feathers into the appearance of armour plating. A feathered knight, flying out into the ever-warming, fox and feline filled world of my garden, protected." - Paul Hogg, 2019
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'An artist’s job is to notice things. I spend a lot of time looking.
I keep working away at a picture until it is resolved and reveals itself to me. I serve the needs of a picture – not the needs of a tree. So I am not aiming to illustrate the tree or landscape accurately but rather to use its form and its essence to make my picture work.' - Paul Hogg, Nov 2024
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Paul Hogg | Studio Showcase
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