Oliver Reed - Landscape Artist
Oliver Reed is a landscape artist, who is also a teacher and a mentor. All of his art work is focused on landscape, nature and natural forms.
His interest in Geology inspired him into doing sculptures, which he then placed within nature and then photographed. He mentioned that once he was finished with his sculptures he often destroyed them in different ways, for example by burning them. After the destruction processes the remains of his sculptures were transformed into smaller sculptures which he named "memory pods".
Oliver Reed's idea of art is about re-inventing yourself, changing the processes in which you create your work, trying out different ranges of media and using them in completely new, different ways.
In Oliver Reed's time line of work, it is clear how his processes, techniques and materials change over time. Throughout eighteen years of artwork he still painted landscape but his paintings really progressed in the matter of idea.
Due to Oliver Reed's interests in hiking and hill walking, he goes to certain landscapes, inspects the viewpoints, then photographs them multiple times from other perspectives, using different effects, concentrating on various points. He also sketches the landscape, as well as brings materials such as stones back from his trips. He does all that to have as much evidence as possible from both primary and secondary sources to support his paintings.
Oliver Reed's inspirational artist's are Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romanticist landscape painter, and Fu Baoshi, a Chinese landscape painter.
One of his "memory pods"
One of his "memory pods"
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