Description
Black Red & Pink Abstract Landscape Art by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield.
Art measures 19.5 x 19.5 inches
There is a quiet, cinematic tension in this piece a horizon that feels less like a place and more like a memory surfacing through atmosphere.
The surface is alive with movement. Thick, sculptural sweeps of paint carve across the canvas like shifting weather systems, suggesting wind, tide, or the slow drift of cloud over water. The palette is restrained yet electric deep graphite greys and stormy blues are punctuated by fleeting streaks of neon cyan and soft coral pink, like light catching on wet surfaces at dusk.
What’s striking is the way light behaves here. It doesn’t sit on top of the painting it seems to emerge from within it. Those luminous streaks feel like reflections on a distant body of water, or perhaps the last traces of a sunset dissolving into evening. There’s a sense of something passing not quite still, not quite gone.
Compositionally, the horizontal layering anchors the work, evoking a seascape or estuary, yet it resists literal interpretation. This ambiguity is where the power lies. It becomes about sensation rather than location the feeling of standing somewhere open, quiet, and vast, where time slows and perception sharpens.
The impasto is central to its voice. Each ridge and scrape holds evidence of decision and revision, giving the painting a physical presence that feels almost geological. It’s not just seen it’s felt.
This sits beautifully within your language of atmospheric abstraction where landscape is distilled into mood, light, and gesture. It carries a contemporary, almost urban edge too, with those flashes of electric colour cutting through the muted ground like reflections on rain-soaked city streets.
Angela Wakefield has twice been on the front cover of ‘Art of England’ and featured in ARTnews, attracting international attention and critical acclaim with her urban landscape paintings of New York & London. The style of painting has been described as ‘contemporary realism’, and is often favourably compared with Edward Hopper by collectors and art critics. Angela’s work is held in private collections in Europe and the USA, including the British Royal Family. Her admirers include leading figures in international business, filmmaking and the media.
PROVENANCE: Ascot Studios Collection. Initialled on the front, signed on the rear. This original artwork includes a Certificate of Authenticity issued by the Gallery. The piece will be stamped from Ascot Studios on its verso.
