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 Georg Douglas is an artist who was born 1945 in Co.
Derry, Northern Ireland.
With Icelandic citizenship since 1975, he has lived and worked in
Iceland since 1972. He Education B.Sc (1967) and Ph.D. (1973) degrees in
earth sciences.
"I moved seriously into art in 2005. I am partly
self-taught and read a lot about art. However, I have also attended
long-term formal courses at Iceland's two art universities continuously
since 2005, Reykjavík Art College and Kópavogur Art College. Courses
have included painting and life drawing, as well as private lessons from
renowned Icelandic artists.
I have been painting almost daily since
2005. My field of interest has been semi-abstract work inspired by the
world of nature and Irish dance I feel that art should be very visual,
appealing to the emotions or creating an atmosphere. Therefore, I like
my paintings to be strong, whether it is color, shape or something else.
I want them to invoke an immediate reaction, whether confronting viewers
or drawing them into the work, so I aim for the dramatic.
In my
semi-abstract flower inspired paintings I include features such as
flowers, stems and petals, I also extend the field of view by including
elements visible only from a microscope or molecular model, like spirals
of plant tissue and proteins or pollen grains, and I think this aspect
comes from my scientific training. I also like to ignore scale and
cluttered elements without a real foreground or background. This
reflects the complexity of nature itself and leaves something to the
viewer's imagination.
"My original scientific training has directly
allowed me to mix art and science."
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