About

Oliver portrait

Oliver Akers Douglas produces oil paintings of landscapes, people and still lifes which are increasingly gaining him a reputation as one of the country's top emerging artists. Described recently by critic Matthew Dennison as 'the foremost landscape painter of his generation', he is perhaps best known for his dramatic interpretations of the English landscape. Distinctive for his vast billowing skies, and the shifting shapes of light and shadow across the land below, he paints with a rare boldness and versatility. The paint is applied thickly and rapidly both with brush and knife to create fascinating textured surfaces, thus producing pictures with considerable visceral impact.

He is based currently both in London and Wiltshire where he is often to be found in remote parts of the Downs painting from his adapted Transit Van in every sort of weather condition. In Winter he undertakes portraits, figure studies and his distinctive still-lifes - all of which, like his landscapes, attracting a wide number of loyal collectors both in Britain and abroad. He works predominantly to exhibition, but also frequently undertakes commissions.

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Selected Shows

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