Glen Scouller fine artist - Lemon Street Gallery Cornwall

"I have colour, a canvas and I must express myself with purity, even though I do it in the briefest manner by putting down for instance, four or five spots of colour or by drawing four or five lines which have plastic expression"
Matisse, Notes of a Painter

The ordering of the artist's sensations before nature is a highly complex and unpredictable process, involving both intuitive response and skilful facility. The artist needs to acquire through long and patient practice, a distinctively personal and deeply subjective language of painting which will also be capable of expressing the appearance and the effect that "nature" has on all our human thoughts and sensibilities. Modern paintings are no longer mere "windows onto the world" but are a synthetic system of visual ----that are as much involved with tactile stimulation, spacial absorption and evocative memories, as empirical observations.

Much of this is due to the way the masters of modern painting, and Glen Scouller surely belongs to this group, do not present us with a fixed and stable view of the world, which would have a deadening effect on our response. On the contrary, looking at Scouller's paintings our eyes are constantly encouraged and enticed to move, both through the subtly arranged spacial construction of his pictorial scenes and at the same time across the richly decorated surfaces of his vividly coloured pictures. Thus the central theme of movement and travel in Scouller's work is not only related to his actual subject matter which the artist discovers during his constant journeying across the globe, but more essentially within the vibrant vitality of the paintings themselves, which ingeniously play off tangible and intangible space, three and two dimensionally, description and synthesis. Ultimately it is this synthesis that is crucial. The artist achieves this through an intense process of visual intellectual and emotional distillation so that the paintings of Scouller become like those of the Master of Nice "an art of balance, of purity and serenity" Stability and serenity are of course two very different things -- one is imposed, the other is achieved. Despite their appearance of easy simplicity Glen Scouller's paintings are a great achievement.
Bill Hare

Glen Scouller
Cherry Blossom, Easter Sunday, near Quarante
oil on canvas
32"x32"
£5000

Glen Scouller
Yachts, early evening, Port du Cros de Cagnes
oil on canvas
36"x42"
£7250

Glen Scouller
Yachts, Port Vauban, Provence
oil on canvas
32"x46"
£7250

Glen Scouller
Reflection: Orange & Blue
oil on canvas
16"x18"
£3000

Glen Scouller
Doves & Hen: Studio Floor
oil on canvas
40"x30"
£5750

Glen Scouller
Bouzique
oil on canvas
36"x36"
£6500

Glen Scouller
Ancient Almond Tree, La Maniere
oil on canvas
30"x30"
£4500

Glen Scouller
Late Evening, Village Farm, La Basse Gaude
oil on canvas
32"x46"
£7250

Glen Scouller
Blue Jug & Cormorant
oil on panel
12"x10"
£1500

Glen Scouller
Hen, Lantern & Sunflowers
oil on panel
12"x10"
£1500

Glen Scouller
Still Life: Sunflowers & Pheasant
oil on canvas
36"x36"
£6500

Glen Scouller
La Maniere
oil on canvas
36x42"
£7250

Glen Scouller
Blue Boat & Markers, Hastings
oil on panel
5 1/2" x 5 3/4"
£450

Glen Scouller
Red & Blue Boats, Hastings
oil on panel
5 3/4" x 6"
£450

Glen Scouller
Blue Boat & Buoy, Hastings
oil on panel
4 1/2" x 4 1/2"
£450

Glen Scouller
Beached Boats, Hastings
oil on panel
5 1/2" x 7 1/4"
£450

Glen Scouller
Owl, Lantern & Blue Jug
watercolour
7" x 9"
£550

Glen Scouller
Boat & Markers
oil on panel
5 3/4" x 14"
£1,250

Glen Scouller
Summer Beach, Hastings
oil on panel
6" x 14"
£1,250

Glen Scouller
Still life with Yacht & Landscape
watercolour
10" x 14"
£650

Glen Scouller
Reflection
oil on canvas
20" x 22"
£3,500

Glen Scouller
Birdcage, Doves & Hen
watercolour
7" x 9"
£550

Glen Scouller
Studio Window & Still life
oil on canvas
16" x 20"
£3,000

Glen Scouller
The Church, St Nazaire d’Aude
oil on canvas
20" x 22"
£3,500

Glen Scouller
Still life: Nature Table
watercolour
21" x 28"
£1,750

Glen Scouller
Boat & Clouds, Hastings
watercolour
21" x 28"
£1,750

Glen Scouller
Road to Fishing Boats, Hastings
watercolour
21" x 28"
£1,750

Glen Scouller
Markers & Boat, Hastings
watercolour
21" x 28"
£1,750

Glen Scouller
Boat Landing, Hastings
watercolour
21" x 28"
£1,750

Glen Scouller
Bouziques
oil on canvas
36" x 36"
£6,500

Glen Scouller
Fishing Boats, Winter, Port Gallice
oil on canvas
36" x 36"
£6,500

Glen Scouller
Looking towards Cagnes Sur Mer
oil on canvas
36" x 42"
£7,250

Glen Scouller
The Red Barge, Le Somail
oil on canvas
30" x 30"
£4,500

Glen Scouller
Nude, Early Spring
oil on canvas
36" x 28"
£4,250

Glen Scouller
Boat on Hard Standing, Hastings
watercolour
21" x 28"
£1,750

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