© PARDUE HEWETT 2021

Metamorphosis VII

Mixed media on canvas

39" x 24"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2021

Metamorphosis VI

Mixed media on canvas

30" x 40"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2021

Metamorphosis V

Mixed media on canvas

36" x 24"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2021

Metamorphosis IV

Mixed media on canvas

36" x 24"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2021

Metamorphosis III

Mixed media on canvas

36" x 24"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2021

Metamorphosis II

Mixed media on canvas

48" x 48"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2021

Metamorphosis I

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 36"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol VI

Mixed media on canvas

44" x 71"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

The Great Migration

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 48"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XXV

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 30"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol a Nuit

Mixed media on canvas

36" x 24"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2020

Spring Flight I

Mixed media on canvas

24" x 24"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol I

Mixed media on canvas

72" x 36"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XIX

Mixed media on canvas

72" x 36"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XVIII

Mixed media on canvas

72" x 36"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XVII

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 60"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XVI

Mixed media on canvas

72" x 36"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XV

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 48"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XIV

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 60"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XIII

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 30"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol XII

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 30"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol VIII

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 36"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol VII

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 36"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol X

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 48"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol IX

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 48"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol III

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 30"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol IV

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 30"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol V

Mixed media on canvas

48" x 48"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2019

Les Papillons en Vol II

Mixed media on canvas

72" x 36"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT

Le Papllion Noir

Mixed media on canvas

71" x 44"

2019

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT

Mariposa Alexandra

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 60"

2019

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Adrift

Mixed media on canvas

48" x 60"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

She Sings of Joys and Sorrows

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 48"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Mother of the Delta III

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 30"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Mother of the Delta I

Mixed media on canvas

65" x 38"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Nowhere Like That

Mixed media on canvas

48" x 48"

SOLD

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Mother of the Delta II

Mixed media on canvas

40" x 30"

SOLD

MEREDITH PARDUE

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Silently She Reigned with Golden Grace

Mixed media on canvas

72" x 36"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Our Lady of the Swamp and Vines

Mixed media on canvas

72" x 36"

SOLD

MEREDITH PARDUE

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Forever

Mixed media on canvas

48" x 48"

MEREDITH PARDUE

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

Golden

Mixed media on canvas

60" x 48"

© PARDUE HEWETT 2018

When Bono Was Cool

Mixed media on canvas

48" x 48"

SOLD

Description

Photorealist painter Michael Hewett and abstract painter Meredith Pardue began a collaborative body of work in 2017 that combines their vastly different approaches to painting on a shared canvas.  While there are variations in the creative process of each painting, generally the artists work separately, but in tandem.  Pardue and Hewett begin each piece by designing the compositions together.  Pardue then creates the abstract grounds with various water based media, often incorporating graphic elements such as stencils and cut outs, and establishing distinct divisions of space through collaged handmade papers and masked sections of paint.  Once the grounds are complete, Hewett begins painting the realistic, but expressive imagery of the compositions using the historical medium of oil paint.

 

 

 

Pardue Hewett debuted their collaboration with a body of work depicting trees in isolation against an abstract ground.  Some of the grounds are abstract atmospheres, and others are flat graphic spaces that contrast starkly with the three dimensionality of the trees.  Each tree is presented as an individual, which is of course quite different than how they generally exist in nature.  This singular presentation in an altered and unexpected environment echoes a range of historical portraiture, and the vertical nature of the tree itself furthers this suggestion. The work has a sensibility that is often magical or haunting, mirroring that of nature in its most sublime or fleeting presentations, and the notion of personification is the root of this sensibility.

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