Charlie Sheard
Mountain 2005

Two artists have inspired me continuously for twenty years, the sixteenth century Venetian painter Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), and the twentieth century poet Ezra Pound. In the work of both of these men, technical mastery of the highest order is married to visionary intensity and spendour.

For some years I have been working with techniques in general from Venetian Renaissance models, and in particular from Titian, whose pictures exhibit extraordinary layering of colour, thereby achieving an unprecedented richness and complexity of optical effect. Such effects, arising out of the dynamic relationship between opacity and transperancy in the oil medium, lend themselves suggestively to the rendering of atmospheric light. Like many painters before me (such asTurner, and Monet in his late work), I have drawn deeply on this branch of Titian's endeavour.'

- Charlie Sheard,

from Exhibition Catalogue 'Homage to Tiziano and Ezra Pound,' 2000