93. Live from the Welsh Borders
Interactive Acrylic on canvas, 600 mm x 400mm (unframed size)
2017
£200
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery members' exhibition (18th September - 12th October 2017)
Exhibited at the Kimpton art show, Kimpton Church, Fri 4th - Mon 7th May 2018
Exhibited at Six Eagle Gallery artists' exhibition, Cottage Farm Nurseries, 312 Cople Road, Cardington, May 27-28, June 2-3 and 9-10. 2018
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery members exhibition (4th February - 28th February 2019)
Exhibited at "Spring Open", The Workhouse, Dunstable, 3rd - 28th March 2020
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery members' exhibition (19th sept - 13th Oct 2022)
It is great to be out in the wilds once more capturing the world. The week 21st – 27th May 2017 proved to be a great opportunity for this with both stunning weather and a beautiful setting.
This is the first painting in the “Longtown, Herefordshire” series. The holiday cottage we hired for the week was arguably the best painting venue I have yet experienced. There was a wild meadow, an old mill, a beautiful stream, gardens and interesting buildings. Mixed in with a week of predominantly warm, bright windless weather, we could have hardly hoped for more.
Perhaps therefore, it is a bit tame to undertake a flowerbed scene, when there is so much on offer. I would defend that decision, however, as it is a slightly more controlled composition and an opportunity to get one’s “eye in”. Although it also feels a slightly wasted opportunity passing on all the beautiful scenery at hand in a private locale. This is one of only two pieces completed “live” at the scene, and this the only piece totally finished out of the studio.
Fairly standard process for achieving this piece – first off do a pencil sketch of the subject- add a scaled rectangle to this then transpose using a grid system to the actual canvas. Then add paint!
Of course earlier I said this was controlled and it is in as much as clouds don’t come and go but of course the sun rolls round at different times of the day and so colours and shadows evolve.
Rather than a negative this of course enhances ones understanding of the scene, and gives one some choices in what to show. Bright sidelight and the forms of the individual plants are delineated clearer. More diffuse and proceedings look slightly wilder. I don’t feel particularly strongly on what I wanted to see it just came as shown, with the different aspects less cherry picked, but more used as available. Happy with the result though, and the piece was completed over around a couple of days.
2017
£200
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery members' exhibition (18th September - 12th October 2017)
Exhibited at the Kimpton art show, Kimpton Church, Fri 4th - Mon 7th May 2018
Exhibited at Six Eagle Gallery artists' exhibition, Cottage Farm Nurseries, 312 Cople Road, Cardington, May 27-28, June 2-3 and 9-10. 2018
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery members exhibition (4th February - 28th February 2019)
Exhibited at "Spring Open", The Workhouse, Dunstable, 3rd - 28th March 2020
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery members' exhibition (19th sept - 13th Oct 2022)
It is great to be out in the wilds once more capturing the world. The week 21st – 27th May 2017 proved to be a great opportunity for this with both stunning weather and a beautiful setting.
This is the first painting in the “Longtown, Herefordshire” series. The holiday cottage we hired for the week was arguably the best painting venue I have yet experienced. There was a wild meadow, an old mill, a beautiful stream, gardens and interesting buildings. Mixed in with a week of predominantly warm, bright windless weather, we could have hardly hoped for more.
Perhaps therefore, it is a bit tame to undertake a flowerbed scene, when there is so much on offer. I would defend that decision, however, as it is a slightly more controlled composition and an opportunity to get one’s “eye in”. Although it also feels a slightly wasted opportunity passing on all the beautiful scenery at hand in a private locale. This is one of only two pieces completed “live” at the scene, and this the only piece totally finished out of the studio.
Fairly standard process for achieving this piece – first off do a pencil sketch of the subject- add a scaled rectangle to this then transpose using a grid system to the actual canvas. Then add paint!
Of course earlier I said this was controlled and it is in as much as clouds don’t come and go but of course the sun rolls round at different times of the day and so colours and shadows evolve.
Rather than a negative this of course enhances ones understanding of the scene, and gives one some choices in what to show. Bright sidelight and the forms of the individual plants are delineated clearer. More diffuse and proceedings look slightly wilder. I don’t feel particularly strongly on what I wanted to see it just came as shown, with the different aspects less cherry picked, but more used as available. Happy with the result though, and the piece was completed over around a couple of days.
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