New Painting: Sun Breaking Through Cloud, Four Mile Bridge Estuary
Sun Breaking Through Cloud, Four Mile Bridge Estuary (oil on board 61cm x 52cm)
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Caffi Siop Mechell Exhibition
Caffi Siop Mechell has kindly offered to exhibit some of my work. The preview evening is 6pm-7pm this coming Friday 21st June. All welcome! The Old Post Office, the square, Llanfechell, Amlwch LL68 0RA
New Painting: Parys Mountain III
This is the third and final painting in the series worked up from plein air sketches of Parys Mountain produced during the Mike Knowles landscape painting week at the beginning of July (see original sketch and reference photo below for comparison). I decided to really push the contrast of flat colour shapes/planes with the introduction …
New Painting: Four Mile Bridge Estuary
This my latest painting of Four Mile Bridge (Pontrhydybont) and is based on a plein air sketch completed some time ago (see picture below). It’s one of my favourite painting spots on Anglesey, and one I keep returning to again and again. Whilst continuing to investigate using flat planes of colour to depict space, I …
New Painting: Holyhead Breakwater Country Park I
This is my latest painting which is of Holyhead Breakwater Country Park. It’s based on a plein air study from a year or two ago (see below). It continues my attempts to strike a balance between figuration and abstraction using flat blocks of colour to represent the planes of the forms/scene. This is my third …
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New Painting: Parys Mountain II
This is my latest painting of Parys Mountain which, again, was worked up from a plein air sketch produced during the Mike Knowles landscape painting week at the beginning of July. It continues the series of paintings investigating the use of flat shapes to represent three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface and is …
New Painting: Sunny Day on Parys Mountain
This is my latest painting which was worked up from a plein air sketch produced during the Mike Knowles landscape painting week at the beginning of the month. In it, I am seeking to recreate the memory of the dazzling array of colours on show, as well as the feeling of distance and space in …
Landscape Drawing Week With Mike Knowles
These paintings are the result of attending the Island Art Group landscape workshop at Llaneilian in the north of Anglesey. Mike Knowles provided tuition and guidance, as well as useful constructive criticism. I chose to focus on Mynydd Parys (Parys Mountain), which, according to Wikipedia, “dominated the world’s copper market during the 1780s, when the …
Landscape Workshop with Tim Iliffe
These pictures are from a fantastic landscape workshop at Tim Iliffe’s beautiful farm near Llanfairfechan on Saturday. Tim encouraged us to ‘respond’ to the landscape rather than just ‘record’ it, starting with charcoal, then monochrome, before moving on to a full palette. I was inspired by the variety and geometry of the plant leaves as …