151. Remembering St.Ives
Oil and mixed media on canvas
721mm x 521mm (770mm x 570mm framed)
£190
Exhibited at "Creative Moments - and elbow grease" 18th - 25th November 2023
Exhibited at The Workhouse "Landscape and Layers" (10th April - 18th May 2024)
Remembering St. Ives will be a series of paintings from a short course and break in St. Ives, Cornwall, during June 2023. This, the first piece is the one most influenced by the course that I undertook at the St. Ives school of painting.
I like the idea of returning to education – there’s always something you’ve forgotten/ discounted or never knew from when you went through college all those years ago. In my case, I only had a cursory dabbling in fine art education as on an art foundation course (as it was then) I soon specialised in graphic design and ultimately elsewhere onto exhibition design.
The three-day course I took, was called “The texture of nature” superbly lead by Kieran Stiles. I was eager to learn the limitations of what can be used in mixed media, but it also provided a neat re-introduction to the use of oils which I haven’t used in years.
I was taken by the constant reference to other artists who have been on similar journeys as I find I tend to work in a vacuum. Other tips I picked up included mark making where you try to make every mark unique and various ways of texture manufacture.
So, of the small works I created on the course – oil on cardboard – one stood out as the most striking with its strong appealing yellow warmth. I’ve recreated that here on a larger scale. The scrunched up, overpainted blue paper towel has become the torn applied canvas and newsprint seen on the bottom right. While other textures have been created with sand and the old splatter toothbrush effect.
Created from one’s own sketches and experiences this particular study also suggests a secondary object/ mist not exactly in existence in the space shown elsewhere in the piece. I was surprised to find that this is a known technique and my tutor showed me examples of its use elsewhere. It felt a bit out of my comfort zone being told to put green in the sky etc – but it certainly has broadened my mind.
721mm x 521mm (770mm x 570mm framed)
£190
Exhibited at "Creative Moments - and elbow grease" 18th - 25th November 2023
Exhibited at The Workhouse "Landscape and Layers" (10th April - 18th May 2024)
Remembering St. Ives will be a series of paintings from a short course and break in St. Ives, Cornwall, during June 2023. This, the first piece is the one most influenced by the course that I undertook at the St. Ives school of painting.
I like the idea of returning to education – there’s always something you’ve forgotten/ discounted or never knew from when you went through college all those years ago. In my case, I only had a cursory dabbling in fine art education as on an art foundation course (as it was then) I soon specialised in graphic design and ultimately elsewhere onto exhibition design.
The three-day course I took, was called “The texture of nature” superbly lead by Kieran Stiles. I was eager to learn the limitations of what can be used in mixed media, but it also provided a neat re-introduction to the use of oils which I haven’t used in years.
I was taken by the constant reference to other artists who have been on similar journeys as I find I tend to work in a vacuum. Other tips I picked up included mark making where you try to make every mark unique and various ways of texture manufacture.
So, of the small works I created on the course – oil on cardboard – one stood out as the most striking with its strong appealing yellow warmth. I’ve recreated that here on a larger scale. The scrunched up, overpainted blue paper towel has become the torn applied canvas and newsprint seen on the bottom right. While other textures have been created with sand and the old splatter toothbrush effect.
Created from one’s own sketches and experiences this particular study also suggests a secondary object/ mist not exactly in existence in the space shown elsewhere in the piece. I was surprised to find that this is a known technique and my tutor showed me examples of its use elsewhere. It felt a bit out of my comfort zone being told to put green in the sky etc – but it certainly has broadened my mind.
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