Clare Haxby's Singapore Waterfront Paintings
This August 2015, as the international city of Singapore celebrates its 50th birthday, Clare Haxby's paintings become more relevant than ever. Over much of the past decade, Clare has painted the historic buildings and landmarks of Singapore, including the innovative designs of the city's waterfront architecture. Clare's waterfront paintings are titled Lotus Flower Building, Marina Bay Sands, Keppel Bay (Reflections At Keppel Bay), Esplanade, Clarke Quay Shophouses, Flyer By The Gardens On the Bay, Central Business District, and Singapore Skyline.
LOTUS FLOWER BUILDING
Original: Mixed Media on Canvas 153 x 122 cm
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Clare has included one of the most distinctive buildings on the Singapore waterfront, the Art And Science Museum, in the compositions of two of her paintings. The shape of the museum is often interpreted as an open hand or a lotus flower, and is featured large in Clare's Lotus Flower Building which she painted on a square canvas 48 inches across and in height. The surface of this painting contains wonderful contrasts and textures in the color stokes that make up the water and the smooth lavender sky punctuated with pink lotus stars surrounding the hard white structural form. Design and art join with the addition of hand-painted text in a large headline and smaller labels within the work.
MARINA BAY SANDS
Original: Mixed media on Linen 244 X 122 CM
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In Clare's painting of neutrals and blues, titled Marina Bay Sands, once again the lotus shaped museum building appears. But this time we see it from a different vantage point along the waterfront, one incorporating an amazing triple tower structure. The triple towers holds up a Sky Park that holds the worlds highest swimming pool. This is the Marina Bay Sands. Clare's hand-painted text at the top of her canvas adds a wonderful design element within the composition and celebrates one of the most stunning landmarks of modern Singapore.
The Art & Science Museum along with the Marina Bay Sands define a portion of the sweeping Skyline of Singapore, making it uniquely identifiable apart from all other cities. Clare completes this epic architectural scene, making it uniquely her own, by adding mixed media elements of aluminum leaf and using the technique of mono-printing to add detail to the painted surface of this landmark.
KEPPEL BAY (Reflections at Keppel Bay)
Original Painting: 186 x 122 cms - Mixed media on Belgian Linen (acrylic paint, mono printing, chinese paper and silver leaf).
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Reflections at Keppel Bay is Clare's painting of Singapore's iconic waterfront luxury condominium. She captures the six glass towers and Singapore's Mount Faber and Sentosa, along with the waterfront boats in this compostion, with forefront docks leaning our eye to the towers, topped by the identifying works Keppel Bay in a yellow sky.
ESPLANADE
Original Painting: Mixed Media on Linen 122 x 122 cm
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Clare's paintings Esplanade and Central Business District showdifferent view of the sculptural fountain of the Merlion, on Singapore's waterfront. The Merlion, the national symbol of Singapore, is a creature from artistic tradition that has the head of a lion and the body of a fish. The Singapore Merlion statue is a fountain spraying out water as it looks out across to the Theatres on the Bay performing Art Centre. Singaporeans refer to the Centre as the Durian Building because of its rounded shape and spikey texture that makes them think of the tropical Durian fruit. Clare added silver leaf to her mixed media piece titled Esplanade, to create reflective and textural qualities on her canvas.
CLARKE QUAY SHOPHOUSES
Original Painting: Mixed Media on Linen 153 x 122 cm
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The historic Clarke Quay district that edges The Singapore River was a central trade route beginning in the early 1800's when spice merchants would bring nutmeg, mace and cinnamon by boat. The spices were then stored in and sold from these pastel coloured Shophouses. Clare's painting may remind viewers of some of those spices, in her saffron color sky, and of bustling activity and crowded streets in this lively and condensed scene of Singapore's vibrant neighbourhood and heritage architecture.
THE FLYER BY THE GARDENS ON THE BAY
Original Painting: Mixed Media on Linen 153 X 122 CM
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Clare worked in acrylic paint, paint markers, and mono-print techniques to create this unique painting of the Singapore Flyer, the famed giant Ferris Wheel next to the curved Cloud Forest structures and the topiary Super Trees of the Gardens on the Bay.
SINGAPORE SKYLINE PAINTING
Original Painting: Mixed Media on Linen 244 x 122 cm
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The City of Singapore at night showing the modern skyscrapers of Central business District, the elegant facade of The Fullerton Hotel and the new one Fullerton and Fullerton Bay Hotel with Clifford Pier and Customs House at the waters edge a former trading port. This paintings by mixed media artist Clare Haxby brings to the viewer a synergy of Singapore's modern and heritage architecture illuminated by night.
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