Basil Blackshaw HRHA, RUA (1932-2016) Drover II (1990) Oil on paper, 110 x 75cm (43¼ x 29½'') Literature: Eamonn Mallie (Ed), Basil Blackshaw Belfast 2003; plate 100, p.238 Drover II is a work from 1990 and is one of a series of paintings that explores the outsider, this time a cattle-man, a cattle drover. Blackshaw had recently visited Western Australia and was taken with the wildness of the landscape but he had not such great opinions regarding the people who he found to be unfriendly something that he would have found difficult. His interest in animals, markets people, edge of the town people and travellers is legend and they have featured in his work in varying degrees throughout his career. Blackshaw is essentially interested in people and indeed people like himself, somewhat on the edge and maybe prone to a little isolation. Cattlemen or, perhaps, even cowboys as such, were a group of people that he had a great deal of time for, having become obsessed with western movies as a young boy. The character in Drover II is a tough guy and somewhat snarly, whose eyes are barely visible under the wide brimmed hat that shields him from the Australian heat. The intense colours used by Blackshaw are redolent of the scorched outback and the rapidly executed brushstrokes suggest that the opportunity to capture the essence of this mysterious man was a fleeting one. Basil Blackshaw HRHA, RUA (1932-2016) Drover II (1990) Oil on paper, 110 x 75cm (43¼ x 29½'') Literature: Eamonn Mallie (Ed), Basil Blackshaw Belfast 2003; plate 100, p.238 Drover II is a work from 1990 and is one of a series of paintings that explores the outsider, this time a cattle-man, a cattle drover. Blackshaw had recently visited Western Australia and was taken with the wildness of the landscape but he had not such great opinions regarding the people who he found to be unfriendly something that he would have found difficult. His interest in animals, markets people, edge of the town people and travellers is legend and they have featured in his work in varying degrees throughout his career. Blackshaw is essentially interested in people and indeed people like himself, somewhat on the edge and maybe prone to a little isolation. Cattlemen or, perhaps, even cowboys as such, were a group of people that he had a great deal of time for, having become obsessed with western movies as a young boy. The character in Drover II is a tough guy and somewhat snarly, whose eyes are barely visible under the wide brimmed hat that shields him from the Australian heat. The intense colours used by Blackshaw are redolent of the scorched outback and the rapidly executed brushstrokes suggest that the opportunity to capture the essence of this mysterious man was a fleeting one.
Basil Blackshaw HRHA, RUA (1932-2016) Drover II (1990) Oil on paper, 110 x 75cm (43¼ x 29½'') Literature: Eamonn Mallie (Ed), Basil Blackshaw Belfast 2003; plate 100, p.238 Drover II is a work from 1990 and is one of a series of paintings that explores the outsider, this time a cattle-man, a cattle drover. Blackshaw had recently visited Western Australia and was taken with the wildness of the landscape but he had not such great opinions regarding the people who he found to be unfriendly something that he would have found difficult. His interest in animals, markets people, edge of the town people and travellers is legend and they have featured in his work in varying degrees throughout his career. Blackshaw is essentially interested in people and indeed people like himself, somewhat on the edge and maybe prone to a little isolation. Cattlemen or, perhaps, even cowboys as such, were a group of people that he had a great deal of time for, having become obsessed with western movies as a young boy. The character in Drover II is a tough guy and somewhat snarly, whose eyes are barely visible under the wide brimmed hat that shields him from the Australian heat. The intense colours used by Blackshaw are redolent of the scorched outback and the rapidly executed brushstrokes suggest that the opportunity to capture the essence of this mysterious man was a fleeting one. Basil Blackshaw HRHA, RUA (1932-2016) Drover II (1990) Oil on paper, 110 x 75cm (43¼ x 29½'') Literature: Eamonn Mallie (Ed), Basil Blackshaw Belfast 2003; plate 100, p.238 Drover II is a work from 1990 and is one of a series of paintings that explores the outsider, this time a cattle-man, a cattle drover. Blackshaw had recently visited Western Australia and was taken with the wildness of the landscape but he had not such great opinions regarding the people who he found to be unfriendly something that he would have found difficult. His interest in animals, markets people, edge of the town people and travellers is legend and they have featured in his work in varying degrees throughout his career. Blackshaw is essentially interested in people and indeed people like himself, somewhat on the edge and maybe prone to a little isolation. Cattlemen or, perhaps, even cowboys as such, were a group of people that he had a great deal of time for, having become obsessed with western movies as a young boy. The character in Drover II is a tough guy and somewhat snarly, whose eyes are barely visible under the wide brimmed hat that shields him from the Australian heat. The intense colours used by Blackshaw are redolent of the scorched outback and the rapidly executed brushstrokes suggest that the opportunity to capture the essence of this mysterious man was a fleeting one.
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