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Bruer Tidman:
Mastering Emotions
Green Pebble Autumn 2007 issue
The instant
appeal of Brüer Tidman’s work
is his wonderful use of colour. There is no
doubt he is a very accomplished colourist
and often on a grand scale, as at the
Salthouse 07 exhibition where his golden
canvas of 8 feet by 16 feet dominated the
entrants’ view.
'I like
to lay down colour with resonance;
colours that zing and cause the painting to
come to life. Colour is important to drive
mood,’ he explains one pleasant July day
at his Great Yarmouth studio. He points
to the swirling mists of yellows, reds and
blues in his painting of the circus, Ring
Boy; colours that draw the viewer into the
canvas in a similar way that Turner’s
broiling sunlight-filled skies do.
But his
paintings are not conceived in the foreknowledge of what colour he will use.
On that score, ‘I just pick up a pot of colour and go from there’,
he explains. Indeed, most of his training was in black and white. However,
this may be a bit of a simplification from a man who is very close to his
emotions. His longest friend, artist Colin Self, says, ‘He uses colour
to express emotions, as free association, like someone might suddenly have
a crush on something – as would a designer simply select their favourite
colours – and yet simultaneously use observed and local colour in different
passages of the same work.’
Brüer is usually inspired by ‘people’; yet he is not moved
by the simple stuff of what they are doing or what they look like. His paintings
are about the harder side of life; of what they are thinking and, even closer
to home, what he thinks about them....
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