I have attended many art shows and framed thousands of pictures in all mediums, and was fully employed for many years accepting the challenges of disgruntled and paranoid customers all of whom through fear and intimidation, made me an excellent though neurotic picture framer. I excelled in tapestries of intricate and fine designs which would have to be the ultimate test for any framer. I was at one stage framing for Frankston’s largest tapestry outlet and the standard of work had to be of the highest order.
I consider myself to have an eye for excellence when it comes to artistic realism, and I have no time for the trash that masqerades under the name of ‘contemporary’ art which in my humble opinion only serves to insult the great artists of our day. It breaks my heart to attend art shows and to see prizes awarded to paintings that can only be described as rubbish, humiliating the true professional. I abused a judge at an art show one day for awarding first prize to a miscreant who painted a small piece of masonite black and slopped some red spots all over it. This was a tremedous encouragement to most of the artists I don’t think, who had spent a week of their lives producing a masterpiece for the show in question. One was the late Pro Hart–beaten if you mind, by a scrap of masonite, complete with schizophrenic spots. I wondered if the idiot doing the judging had even heard of Pro Hart.
Of course we are all aware of the deceptive, bizarre side of the human psyche that tantalises itself into rationalising that it can see ‘something’ high brow in a canvas full of coloured slop that others are incapable of seeing. I noted during my many years of psychiatric nursing that if you gave a seriously ill schizophrenic patient a canvas and a few tubes of paint, they would come up with something of a mess that we would call today–contemporary or “abstract” art. Does that say something the high brows wish to ignore? Does that say something for the continual and monotonous standard of the judging of the Archibald prize?
Such is not the case with the Glenn Hoyles of the world. His artistic prowess and talent for colours, shading and perspective, speaks for itself, and would fail to impress only those secreting insufficient dopamine in what brain they might have. Glenn’s ability to produce realism and the beauty of the environment is to say the least, astounding, and his back ground of building and architecture reveals itself all throughout his exacting eye for detail in the wonderful paintings he produces.
I must say at this point in Glenn’s defense, he has nothing whatever to do with the opinions or statements I have made on this web site, they are entirely mine. I have included Glenn’s paintings because of my high regard of the man as an artist and I am proud to think that he has consented to the use of his work on my site. If you have a photograph of a favourite place or scene, I can assure you that Glenn could reproduce a perfect painting of that photo to exact likeness should he have the time and inclination to do so.
Well, a picture as the saying goes, is worth a thousand words and it is my pleasure and privilege to be able to display samples of Genn Hoyle’s amazing talents on my website.
Finally, it is written in the first Chapter of the book of Romans that any man or woman who fails to recognise the hand of God in the beauty of the creation they so readily see around them in the hills, the sea, the valleys, and the heavens, are totally without excuse in saying there is no God, and will be judged accordingly on that terrible judgement day. It would be an impossible task to see the beautiful hand of God in some of the stuff we see hanging in Galleries today. For instance, in the face of one of Picasso’s monstrosities. Not only is God a God of creation and beauty, the Devil is a Being of deception who uses many of his stooges to weild their brushes to defile the world of art in the most vilest of ways imaginable.
Comparing my work to that of Glenn Hoyle is like comparing the thumb drawings of a pre-schooler to the works of Streeton and Roberts, but I have one advantage, beauty IS in the eye of the beholder, and that at least gives me some chance.
Here then are some examples of the mastery that flows from the brushes of Glenn Hoyle.
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Great work.
This is what I call true art – that which glorifies God’s wonderful creation.
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Realistic paintings,. Oh, to be able to paint like that. It truely reflects the handywork of God. Well done Glen.