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David McEwenMisty Scottish landscape, Border Terrier, dog and horses in a charming narrative2021
2021
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Scottish artist, David McEwen's oil painting of a Border Terrier dog and horse, "The Runaways" is a masterfully painted narration of Phillip, a dog, and Bruno, a horse, being enticed by a fairy horse, Pooka, into the Hills. (full story by David McEwen below). David McEwen has been a professional painter and internationally respected teacher for more years than he cares to remember. His formal training began when, at the age of 13, he was accepted into a special group formed at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. David McEwen is a raconteur who not only is an amazingly talented "painter of the world" but a charming story teller.
"One afternoon last March I was getting ready for a hack out towards the Sugar Loaf Mountains in County Wicklow, Ireland, when fingers of mist began to make their way across the yard. I shivered and realising that I needed a heavier coat I turned towards the Tack Room to fetch one. Once I returned to the yard I was annoyed to see that Bruno and my dog Phillip had become bored and had moved off, they have very active minds of their own, which is one way of saying I haven’t been able train either of them. They are not Trigger and Rebel you understand! So I followed them shouting like a demented loon into the thickening fog. Suddenly I passed through a broken gate, a sudden wind parted the rags of mist and there were my runaways … but they were not alone, a bright bay was leading them across the field. I collected Bruno’s reins and spoke sharply to him and Phillip, at that the fog thickened to white-out, we were utterly incurtains of cold and unpleasant nightmare. Both Bruno and Phillip shivered and looked at me as, suddenly, the fog cleared in an in. Of the other horse, the broken gate and fence there was no sign and we found ourselves in a field close to the yard and, for some reason neither I, Bruno or Phillip wanted to move from the yard again that day.
I told a neighbour of my adventure, he looked at me quizzically over his pipe and said, 'You saw the Pooka, you were lucky not to mount and follow or we’d never see you again.' 'The Pooka ? What’s a Pooka ?', I asked. Tim Pat shook his head and replied, “The Pooka is a fairy horse which leads the unsuspecting into the Hills where they stay forever and a day.”
I’m afraid that I didn’t believe my old friend ….. but ….. I never saw the Light Bay or that field again."
Painting is framed and located in US. International shipping available.
- Creator:David McEwen (1949, Scottish)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 35.5 in (90.17 cm)Width: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Charleston, US
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DAVID McEWEN, Scottish David McEwen has been a professional painter and internationally respected teacher for more years than he cares to remember. His formal training began when, at the age of 13, he was accepted into a special group formed at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, by the renowned painter Victor Pasmore. Although Pasmore was an abstract painter he insisted that his students followed classical training. For the first year of training McEwen drew and drew anything from rocks, found objects, still lives to academy figures. It was from the last subject that his love for portraiture was born. During the second year the students were allowed to paint - in a way. Pasmore gave them paints, brushes and paper and then indicated a huge list from which students were expected to mix matching colours. Not painting - just learning about painting and colour theory. It was a hard and sometimes tedious apprenticeship. Over the next few years McEwen added formal qualifications to his early training with Bachelors degrees and a Masters degree. He taught Fine Art at schools and colleges until the early nineties when he decided to become a full-time painter. David has many contacts in the world of equestrian sports and commissions began to come in from international and Olympic riders for paintings of themselves and their horses. Since 1992, David completed nearly 1000 commissions in watercolour, pastel and oil. In 1997, McEwen and his late wife, Sally, moved to a 13th century town in the South of France. With this new inspiration David's work has been included in several magazines. International Artist named him a "Master Painter of the World." His work has been included in a number of prestigious exhibitions, he has been a prize winner in several international competitions, and is a member of a number of painting societies. In 2020 he moved to Ireland closer to his roots.
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