Tony Allain
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ZHONGWEN HU
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"The favourite thing of the majority of people is to sit on a beach by a lake or ocean. This is not my favourite thing. I prefer swamps and marshes because of the rich diversity of wildlife. In early summer families of redwinged blackbirds cavort among the lily pads and rushes. As I paddle my canoe I hear the northern yellowthroat more often than I see him. In this painting I chose to leave out the obvious adult male redwings. After all, most of the birds are either females or young and I did not want to distract from the banquet for the eye one finds at the edge of a marsh.”
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"The lone swan pictured here is searching for the flock to settle down for the night on the broad, flat Lake Erie lowlands. The landscape is reminiscent of its wide open nesting grounds in the North. I have made the sky a very important element in the painting. It is wide and endless -- it is the highway for these great birds. At the top of the picture, you can barely make out the vapour trail of a jet aircraft echoing the form of the swan's wing and reminding us of the fact that the skies no longer belong to the birds alone."
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"When I paint trees, it’s as much about the air as it is the tree. These pushed and pulled by the wind-force to pay homage to the Northeast."
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"I painted this from a causeway on the Racquette River in Tupper Lake, NY. The Adirondacks."
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This painting is currently in the hands of an art dealer in Beijing
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Collection of Sandra Willard (previously shown in 2016 at South Bay Contemporary Gallery in San Pedro, CA, and in 2017 in Histories & Memories at the Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, curated by Joshua Hagler.
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