Geoffrey Grant b.1942

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"Painting is what I do."

This quotation from Edwin Mullins' documentary, “Engine of Revolution”, sums up my own philosophy and approach to painting. I like to think that my pictures are part of an evolutionary process and continuous tradition.

Paintings from the series “Dreams of a Summer Night” (Nos. 248, 250 and 247) 2007-2009

612 Menilmontant (Parisiana 6) 2020-21

552 Runo II (Finlandia 3) 2018

620 Île de la Grande Jatte (Parisiana 8) 2021

599 Improvisation 1 (2020) 585 Impromptu 3 (2020) 605 Improvisation 7 (2020)

628 November Steps (Simple Pictures) No.6 2021

618 Nuance 5 (2021)

634 Early Autumn (Simple Pictures) No.10 2021

The foundation for my ideas, aspirations and paintings have come from what I have discovered and analysed from the development of the European landscape tradition in painting over the last three centuries. It has been romanticism, realism, all aspects of impressionism, late nineteenth and early twentieth century painting that are my main influences and sources of reference. I have also tried to incorporate the essence of their objectives and ideals in some way at all times. In later years my work has tended to move towards even more non-representional modes of painting using plane geometric figures infused with abstract impressionist overtones.