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This was inspired by something that actually happened in the first months of 2013. My daughter was away from school recovering from an illness. She came to find me in my studio to show me that the ancient pear tree in our garden had seven owls sitting in it. I grabbed my camera and was able to take a number of photographs of them. They remained for about half an hour and then flew away. To find a tree full of owls in broad daylight, is apparently not as unusual as might be thought, but I was still glad to have witnessed this strange sight. The strangeness of the owls as a group was interesting because they are not often thought of as social creatures and the time of day, I found interesting too. It seemed like a portent, or some sort of sign, although for what, I have no idea. This is certainly how so many of the artists of former times, in whose work I try to take an interest, would have thought of this, I am sure. It also has a ‘rest on the flight’ feel, of figures taking refuge in natural surroundings where to mood and the atmosphere often almost overwhelm them. This is of course my own ‘City boy’ transplanted to the country, response to my own surroundings. The goat which was the model for this one belongs to one of my neighbours.

Original Created: 2019

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Painting: Oil on Canvas

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The Owl Tree Painting

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Tree Owl Art

Original: One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size: 51.1 W x 39.3 H x 0.8 D in

Frame: Not Framed

Ready to Hang: Not applicable

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Ships From: Austria.

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Ben Dhaliwal’s artwork belongs to a world of atmosphere, narrative and above all nostalgia, perhaps for something never experienced. His landscapes and interiors are populated by archetypal figures. Magicians, Clowns, Kings, Queens, Angels, Performing Animals and characters from and inspired by his love of baroque opera. All of them have in common that they are figures out of place in the modern, materialist world. His performers stand as practitioners of either lost, pointless or superseded skills; much like any painter, especially one occupied with representational or figurative subject matter. The situations in which they are depicted are often either prior to or after an event to which the viewer has not been privileged and must therefore provide interpretation and meaning. Clues and symbols abound in the plethora of seemingly irrelevant objects which lie discarded in the corners and shadows of his theatrical spaces. His paintings are also rich in art historical references contrasted by deliberate anachronisms of textile, costume detail and furnishing. These are there to be enjoyed by those who care to take the time but are non-essential and subservient to the overall effect. The kitsch and sentimental content in his work is neither cool nor ironic but stems from a real desire to transcend and escape the sometimes oppressive hectic of the immediate. As a child of mixed-race parentage growing up in the grim, industrial north of 1970’s England, he claimed this right to non-participation relatively early, abandoning a practical study of art for the more esoteric but academically rigorous and critical theory-steeped, art history. Emerging years later, his head spinning with visual and cultural references, he embarked on a career as a museum curator. However, dissatisfied with the dreary politics and repetitive administration and having met his wife to be, he left England for Austria, initially planning to begin doctoral research. However, during this time, his desire to practice was re-kindled. After a brief and only partially successful attempt to try and establish a career as a children’s book illustrator, he began to practice the meticulous, studied and utterly un-spontaneous type of oil painting, based on the so called ‘Flemish Technique’ that he had always admired. Lacking conviction that his work had either aesthetic merit or commercial possibility, he did not exhibit until 2013.

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