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Damian Osborne 7th May 2019

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Damian Osborne

Contemporary figurative and landscape painter based in South Africa.

For me, painting is an active communication with the unconscious and the natural world. Through a practice rooted in classical draftsmanship and through grinding my own pigments, my work invites introspection and seeks to awaken a quiet sense of belonging and kinship with the landscape.

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Basic Points for Painting

A simplified summary of the most important principles to be aware of when painting. This 68-page guide with full-page colour artwork is meant to help beginner, as well as professional artists. Use it to explore new aspects or directions in your painting and to check your own work. My aim was to write this booklet without clinging to dogmatic ideas, fashionable trends or obfuscation, but keep to the universal and fundamental principles of painting.

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Selected Essays

The Alchemical Process of Making Pigments: A Gnostic Perspective
What’s the Point of Creating When No One Cares?
Fantasia No.6 in G minor (The Cockatrice)
Rebirth: Starting Over as an Artist — Part 1
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in G