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Peter Leckett

Across the Tracks

Across the Tracks

$500.00 CAD
$500.00 CAD
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  • Acrylic on cradleboard
  • 12x16 in (31x41 cm), 2023
  • Signed lower lefthand corner
  • Framed


'Across the Tracks' was a piece executed from the front seat of my car. This process of painting has its advantages and disadvantages. While it's nice and warm and private, you don't get to throw paint around as agressively as you might painting from an easel.

 

Published: 2024-02-19

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Accepted into SCA Juried Online Exhibition April 1, 2023 to June 15, 2023.

'Across the Tracks' depicts a rustic winter scene. Several buildings with pitched roofs, in earthy browns and creamy whites, stand in the composition. The central structure has prominent windows and a chimney, implying a residence. Reflective snow blankets the roofs and the ground, with patches of underlying vegetation peeking through, indicating that the snowfall is not overwhelmingly heavy.

Bare trees punctuate the view, their slender trunks and branches adding a delicate network of lines against the buildings and sky. The foreground features a railway bed marked with a mix of soft hues and sharper strokes, giving the painting both a sense of calm and textural contrast. The brushwork is expressive, with an interplay of light and shadow that suggests a chilly but tranquil winter day in a serene, possibly rural or semi-rural, environment.