Alan Cotton is one of Britain's
most distinguished landscape painters. Cotton was brought up in Redditch,
Worcestershire and undertook his art studies at Ruskin Hall, Bournville School
of Art, Birmingham College of Art, Birmingham University and at
the University of Exeter. He has channelled his success into
many charitable works, including his 2013 Art for Life Auction for the
Children’s Hospice South West.
Cotton’s relationship with oil paint is
the key to his now immediately recognisable and internationally sought-after
work. His understanding of the medium's allure, challenges and caprices
translate into assertively textured landscapes that join impasto with
atmospheric perspective. Executed in high colour keys, these paintings retain a
purity of pigment that is exceptionally difficult to retain in oil.
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