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Bear Garden, Wentworth Acrylic Landscape Painting Bear Garden, Wentworth                                     enlarge Acrylic on Board 1999 8 x 6 ins Frame: Gold effect Mount: white Original Painting For Sale £400   View Sketchbook Drawing   A Cezanne Style Painting of the Garden behind  Wentworth Garden Centre near Rotherham in South  Yorkshire.   A man looks out across the ornamental pond which  has overhanging Japanese Maples. The small arch shapes  behind him are old duck houses, and the bear used to be kept in a stone enclosure towards the back of the Garden.   Painting Technique: The Image was first drawn with a fine brush and red Acrylic  Paint. The Drawing was allowed to show  through to add a  vibrant key note to the Painting. The composition is based  on circular and triangular shapes similar to those used by  Cezanne. Some of the colour and cross-hatching brush-work  is also similar in style to Cezanne's Post Impressionist work.   The Bear Garden, Wentworth Painting was awarded  Commended by the judges at the South Yorkshire Open  Art Exhibition at the Cooper Gallery, Barnsley.   A Signed Greetings Card is available of this Painting   click here