Roy Lang

 

 

  Through his work, Roy Lang, is trying to express the beauty of the sea, exactly as it is, unique, dangerous but beautiful at the same time. The atmosphere is hard to decide, is somewhere in between calm (the feeling that is expressed when one is walking down the beach and is listening to the sound that the waves make when they hit the shores, and the breeze that blows slowly) and scary (the way one feels when he/she is looking at a boat in the middle of the ocean, during a storm). The feelings that his art convoy are restleness, but at the same time calm, both passion and melancholy. Roy’s artwork explores nature, sea, to be more exact, in all of it’s beauty – moods, movement, and different lights of the ocean.

  The artwork is painted in oil, on canvas. He uses mainly small brushes, as his artwork is paying attention to close detail. The consistency of the paint is thin and oily. The artwork has a clear depth in it. There is clearly an illusion created that some objects there further than others. The colours used in his painting resemble with the actual colours of the waves or the sea, most of the times. In other cases, from my point of view, the colours are slowly exaggerated. Givind the fact that Roy Lang in painting the moods of the ocean/sea, his choice of colours resides in cold ones. Usually the lower part of the painting is darker, and then it becomes lighter, as it goes to the top of the painting. The texture is smooth, as there are no brush marks on the painting, everything is carefully blended.

   Roy Lang opted out of art school at the edge of thirteen, and started painting again in his late thirties while out of work. His understanding of the sea, mainly gleaned from angling in his youth, made up for his lack of any formal training in art.

  “It was the love of the sea that inspire Roy to start painting, capturing the water’s movement, light and moods, which is certainly reflected in his work”

  “I do not consider myself to be an artist; rather than someone who has learnt to portray the sea’s moods, colours and movements with paint on canvas”.

  He was voted artist of the year in 200 and 2002 by the Society of all Artists, and has had his work exhibited in the Mall Galleries, the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, the Flavel Darthmouth and various other Galleries in UK.