...towards representing moorland, woodland, harbours, river estuaries, beaches, gardens and the human form in water-colour
The South Hams has such a wealth of vistas, ever changing light, skies, never the same twice. Click on picture for caption and dimensions of paintings.
En Plein Air
Acrylics created on the beach. They bear the sand to prove it. Despite the challenge of holding down canvas in wind, minimising the amount of sand in paint, brushes and eyes, and dodging showers it was pure delight to be out painting on the beach. Trying to capture fleeting impressions.
Life studies
Oils
1 Gorse
Heron Haunt
3 Winding down to the sea
Watercolour
Devon fiord
“How the light falls” on distant Dartmoor
“Dartmoor River’
Fishing off Pope’s Quay
Summer on the Quay
Wembury Bay Sunset
Crabbing off the Quay
Velvet Anemones
Spring Woodland
Oil- perfect wave
2018
Tonal study, City-scape and still life in oils.
Print Workshop
Collagraph-examples of single & double colour printing and watercolour finish
monoprinting
Egret on the Yealm, Devon rainforest, Reflections of sunset on Noss
Mothecombe 1, Mothecombe 2
SOLD
'East Dartmoor' is the culmination of a morning sketching, photographing and making notes on a cool August day. With Sharp Tor prominent it overlooks the wooded Dart Valley, distant sun-streaked rolling hills and then on out to the south coast. The light changed rapidly as the wind harried overhead clouds. Different areas were, by turns lit and cast into deep relief. There was potential for multiple paintings capturing fleeting instances and moods from this one spot. I chose an instant of transition, after low cloud had passed over but before the sun broke through the higher layers. A moment of stillness giving a sense of the timelessness of these uplands.
'East Dartmoor' is the culmination of a morning sketching, photographing and making notes on a cool August day. With Sharp Tor prominent it overlooks the wooded Dart Valley, distant sun-streaked rolling hills and then on out to the south coast. The light changed rapidly as the wind harried overhead clouds. Different areas were, by turns lit and cast into deep relief. There was potential for multiple paintings capturing fleeting instances and moods from this one spot. I chose an instant of transition, after low cloud had passed over but before the sun broke through the higher layers. A moment of stillness giving a sense of the timelessness of these uplands.
SOLD
Brooking Down Woods in Spring
This is a favourite walk for myself and my flat coated retriever Bryher. It is a local community woodland cared for by volunteers, with a circular path choreographed to help you enjoy all its aspects. It is particular attractive in Spring when there are glimpses through the trees of farmland, woodland gardens, a stream and in the distance the estuary. It reaches its peak with the perfume of blue-bells and rivers of vivid colour running through the dappled light on the woodland floor.
My painting is created from a composite of sketches and photographs made in an effort to capture that effect, with the early Spring light behind and through the trees.
Brooking Down Woods in Spring
This is a favourite walk for myself and my flat coated retriever Bryher. It is a local community woodland cared for by volunteers, with a circular path choreographed to help you enjoy all its aspects. It is particular attractive in Spring when there are glimpses through the trees of farmland, woodland gardens, a stream and in the distance the estuary. It reaches its peak with the perfume of blue-bells and rivers of vivid colour running through the dappled light on the woodland floor.
My painting is created from a composite of sketches and photographs made in an effort to capture that effect, with the early Spring light behind and through the trees.
First still life using water soluble oils
