Colourful horse by Alina O'Dwyer Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: oil painting Dimensions: 50 x 68 cm Year: 2020 Price: $1198.00 USD Status: available This painting captures the allure of horse through an abstract manner, showcasing their beauty with a dynamic use of color and texture. The horse emerges from the canvas through expression strokes made with a palette knife. Each stroke adds unique texture and depth, emphasizing the horse’s powerful form and expressive nature. The background contrasts with the multicolored horse, which is rendered in a sleek, silver sheen that accentuates the horse's colourful palette. The silver colour enhances and amplifies the horse’s lively colors, boosting the painting’s overall sense of movement and energy. This artwork was featured at World Art Dubai 2024. Why collect this work?The horse is held between likeness and fragmentation: its eye, muzzle and ears remain legible while overlapping colour blocks break apart the expected continuity of its face. O’Dwyer’s profile identifies animals and environmental advocacy as recurring concerns. Here, the horse is not shown in a habitat; the tightly isolated head makes the animal itself the sole subject of attention.The photograph shows a dark eye beneath a sweeping blue forelock. The descending muzzle organizes otherwise abrupt passages of yellow, pink, red, green and blue, while the close crop gives the portrait an insistent proximity.Catalogued as oil painting and described as palette-knife work, the medium allows opaque colours and sharply interrupted marks. These may account for the image’s assembled, faceted appearance, though surface texture cannot be confirmed from the photograph.The work provides a focused case for considering how few anatomical anchors are needed to sustain recognition when naturalistic colour and continuous modelling are withheld. About the ArtistAlina O'Dwyer Alina O'Dwyer is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Dubai. Nationality: Russian For me freedom lives in the nature. Humanity should put wild nature before the next oil pipeline or hight-rise apartment block.
