Angie Spencer Paintings Contemporary British Landscape painter
Responses to Music
I am a classical violinist and I find that listening to and playing music invokes visual imagery. The paintings on this page are some of my experiments.
From 2014 I started consciously making work in response to music and began with a series in response to the Carducci Quartet's 2015 recording of Shostakovich's 8th and 4th quartet.
My process in doing this is to only apply paint to the canvas while I am actually listening - each piece has its own very different vibration, colour palette and feel.
I always give 10% of the sale price of an original painting to environmental charities to honour the healing powers of Nature that inspire and help me.
100 x 76 cm oil on canvas SOLD response to Philip Glass quartet no 2 'Company'
70 x 70 cm oil on deep canvas A response to Brahms symphony no 1, 2nd movement. Started plein air...
Response to Neilsen 5th Symphony 40 x 50 cm SOLD
Response to Neilsen 5th Symphony 40 x 50 cm SOLD
50 x 50 cm oil on board framed response to Act 2 of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde ('Liebesnacht')
50 x 50 cm oil on board framed response to Act 2 of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde ('Liebesnacht')
70 x 70 cm oil on deep canvas response to Sibelius Violin Concerto movt 1
40 x 40 cm oil on deep canvas response to Sibelius 4
40 x 40 cm oil on deep canvas response to Beethoven Piano concerto 5, movt 2
80 x 80 cm Oil on Deep Canvas response to 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring' piano version for 4 hands - Delius
Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm Framed SOLD Response to Violin concerto by Ina Boyle
60 x 60 oil on canvas Framed Response to Movt 2 of Schubert's string quartet of the same name
Response to Jonathan Trim's setting of words by Ivor Gurney 60 x 70 cm Oil on Canvas
Response to Jonathan Trim's setting of words by Ivor Gurney 60 x 70 cm Oil on Canvas
60 x 60 oil on canvas Framed Response to Movt 1 of Schubert's string quartet of the same name
Response to Neilsen's 4th Symphony 'The Inextinguishable' Oil on Board SOLD