Olive The Hare – Original Art SOLD

Olive The Hare – Original Art Unframed

Olive the Hare is an original pastel and pen creation by artist and designer Anna Danielle. Taking up the soft pastels again after a twenty year sabbatical, Anna has returned to an artwork style that she finds incredibly peaceful. Working on pastel paper, each drawing takes an average of six to ten hours to complete. More often than not, a drawing will be flowing nicely for the first few hours, showing great promise. However, an hour later all can go disastrously wrong and what was at first exciting swiftly becomes overworked and ends up in the bin.

Hounds, Hares & Hens Exhibition December 2018

This exhibition came about by a chance opportunity to lease a small shop unit for two months in the run-up to Christmas. Based in a local shopping centre in a suburb of Derby, (Anna’s hometown) it was the spark of motivation she needed to create something simply for the love and joy of drawing. A personal challenge that had been on her studio blackboard for at least two years. Time, Christmas, work and family commitments all did their best to derail her. A harsher critic would say she failed, having only managed 1/3 of her chosen subject matter. Anna tiptoed around the failure and discovered that by moving the finishing line to February 2019, the exhibition has become an online, ongoing, ever-evolving one and she can’t wait to get started on the hens and hounds. In the meantime, do feel free to enjoy her hares!

Technical Detail

Soft pastel and pen on a textured art pastel paper.

Mount size 46cm x 58cm

Unframed

Signed and dated

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