Artist / Oil Painter
The Only Immortality Is Up, (2022).
About
Phoenix Hudson Is artist currently making predominantly landscape oil paintings, with an emphasis on architectural and cityscapes, with a heavy influence of Morrocan, Mediterranean and Cornish landscape and architecture. Using thick impasto to contrast the dichotomy between the realised world (of nature) and the built world (of our own construction).
What can our surroundings say about ourselves? How do the spaces we inhabit reflect our own personalities? our desires?
Born 1997. Growing up around St.Ives at the start of the millennium. My first experience with the art world being through the eyes of two working artist parents in Delpha Hudson and Andy Whall.
https://www.delphahudsonartist.co.uk
https://andywhall.com
I began sculpting oil paint onto the canvas using primarily pallet knives during the painting ‘The Only Immortality Is Up’ displayed above. Thickening my painting up using a variety of mediums to imbue an impasto construction of my phenomonlogical expression of each place or moment through texture
Phoenix Hudson Is artist currently making predominantly landscape oil paintings, with an emphasis on architectural and cityscapes, with a heavy influence from Morrocan and Mediterranean landscape and architecture.
Educated in a wide range of traditional philosophers specialising in politic ethics for individuals through a post-structuralist critique of society. Well read on the philosophical discipline of architecture. Bachelard, baudrillard, Alain De Botton.
Written work on the nature of death, specificially the fear of death and the subsequent strive for different forms of symbolic immortality as first proposed by Ernest Becker in his 1973 book The Denial of Death.
My style
Focusing on the interplay between light, texture and the diversity of life through the emotive language of architecture, I tend to describe my work as an ‘ordered chaos’, in which huddled and towering rooftops compete for light and compress into tight spaces. A peaceful claustrophobia. Illustrating our relationship within the spaces we inhabit and inflecting what they say about us. Each of my paintings explores inner and outer landscapes, colour, notions of home and far away places, with a primary focus upon texture through a scultpural layering of the paint and mixed mediums onto canvas.
Currently my practice is split between making a lot of miniature paintings (10 x 10cm, on board), In which small quiet moments are frozen in time amidst the loud world we live in.
As well as working on larger canvases, typically mixing a palette that highlights the temperature of the piece, using wax and other mediums the paint is layered onto the canvas to create rich textures. Using techniques I have personally developed over the past couple years I intend of on carving out my own unique style and mark onto the art world.
