Carl Stringfellow – After the Rains

 A selection of Carl Stringfellow’s paintings are exhibited at Purple Noon Gallery.

Carl’s paintings are reminiscent of a romantic period in art when artists like Turner and Constable expressed emotion and a stylistic range of landscape painting to  heightened sensory awareness.  Carl’s art is expressive, imaginative and exaggerated – a refuge from the social struggles of contemporary life. His work today celebrates a creative individuality, where his compelling visual landscapes are simply beautiful and fanciful, not necessarily meaningful, purposeful or functional. He responds sensitively to the difficult, social and political world in which we all live, and takes us back to an imaginative world of beauty, emotion and romanticism.

After a break from full time painting, where he sold very successfully through Barry Stern Galleries, Paddington in the 1980s and 1990s, Carl is re-emerging into the art scene where his imagination and painting technique continue to expand, as he works on paintings that commemorate the modern era, integrating the beauty of architecture, nature and contemporary scenes.

His work is more than ever still distinguished by his penchant for atmospheric detail and tubulent skies, disturbed by the relative calm of his subject matter. Stringfellow’s paintings generate a mood that is both evocative and ephemoral, forcing the viewer to contemplate the aura of the landscape and its visual splendour.