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Sketched Diptych Study for Henley Royal Regatta

Diptych Study for Henley Royal Regatta

£9,000. SOLD by IAP Fine Art and River & Rowing museum.

This painting entitled ‘Sketched Diptych Study for Henley Royal Regatta’ (both panels 36” x 24” acrylic on canvas 2008) is a sketched study for the final composition. It is a two-panel painting, or diptych, framed separately but hung as a pair.

In this final study, Gollon has worked out the final viewpoint of the spectator, which will be from behind the losing team as they cross the finish line and look to the crowd.

The champagne glasses make a small still life within the work, and the artist's scratching-in technique is again used here to make the outlines of the 'drunken' glasses.

In a recent series of still life, Gollon’s glasses and assembled objects seem to hint at a human drama beyond the canvas. Here they seem to echo the human scene.

Chris Gollon has developed a very subtle way of using acrylic paint, where layers and layers of thin glazes or washes of colour are used to build up the flesh tones.

Gollon has established that the only way to fit in the crowd, the Fawley bar, the bridge and church denoting Henley, and the rowers, is to make the spectator’s viewpoint almost behind the rowers as they pass the finishing line and look to the crowd .

The colour diptych study does not yet feature the Fawley bar, the bridge and the church, but has helped the artist see where they will go in the final work.

Chris Gollon had to decide, given the theme of the beauty and pain of sport, whether to depict the girls in sympathy with or indifferent to the losing rowers. Only in the final work will this be resolved. What is certain is that Gollon's strong style will produce a very colourful and dramatic depiction of a very British sporting scene.

This is the image which is closest to the final work, since it is the last major study before Chris Gollon embarked on the main 48” (122cm) x 36” (92cm) work in March and April 2008. It was part of the 'Gollon At Henley' exhibition at the River & Rowing Museum.

author: iapgoll