Peter Goodhall

Joined Artfinder: Aug. 2014

Artworks for sale: 87

(19)

United Kingdom

Updates from Peter Goodhall's studio

  • Old Ladram Bay

    Old Ladram Bay

    Another traditional painting on my easel. Drawn out in paint to determine the content before adding colour. The sky will be the first area of colour to be added followed by the sea. Although depicting a time before I was born this location is quite special to me. I spent much of my childhood and youth at this very location and although there have been some changes it is still instantly recognisable today. Additionally for 25 years my studio was just a two minute walk away at the top of the cliff. I must be getting old - reminiscing about the old days!

    24 November 2021
    UPDATE ON TRANQUILLITY XXII

    UPDATE ON TRANQUILLITY XXII

    Particularly pleased with the lower half - so onwards and upwards!

    24 September 2021
    Cutty Sark in the Southern Ocean

    Cutty Sark in the Southern Ocean

    Traditional seascape with a capital T! A 24 x 40 inch canvas. Sky finished, basic under-painting for the ship and sails, with the sea just blocked in where it will be. I have chosen to paint the Cutty Sark because she is probably the best known of the Tea Clippers, although she only brought tea back from China for the first few years of her life. The races between a number of the famous tea clippers are quite well documented and the first ship home with a new season of tea always commanded the highest price for their cargo. The launch of the Cutty Sark coincided with the opening of the Suez Canal and the Suez Canal offered a shorter and quicker voyage back to the UK from China for steamships. As a result of this many of the clippers were employed bringing wool back from Australia and continued to sail in the Southern Oceans.

    21 July 2021
    KOI ANTICIPATION XI

    KOI ANTICIPATION XI

    A smallish canvas from the Koi Anticipation Series shown here with just the layout drawn out in paint. The next stage will incorporate a base colour with some tonal modelling followed by a layer of detail painting.

    21 July 2021
    TRANQUILLITY XXII

    TRANQUILLITY XXII

    Having just finished my last and largest painting from the Tranquillity Series this is the next one. Gone round with this 45 inch diameter canvas. If you are wondering what the horizontal piece of wood perched across the top is for - to support the top of my arm rest. So many careful and painfully slow hours will be spent on this painting with just a small brush my painting arm is certainly going to need some support!

    13 July 2021
    TRANQUILLITY XXI

    TRANQUILLITY XXI

    Still work in progress but well past the half-way stage!

    10 June 2021
    TRANQUILLITY XXI

    TRANQUILLITY XXI

    Returned to working on this XL canvas, so now there is an area painted with one of the layers of colour in place. Still a long way to go!

    29 April 2021
    TRANQUILLITY XXI

    TRANQUILLITY XXI

    So I´m beginning 2021 with an extra large canvas and on that canvas I´m painting number 21 in my Tranquillity Series. Very early days in this photograph and certainly a lot more painting to be done! Still at the stage of designing the formation of the patterns in the water. This canvas at 90 inches wide is the biggest I´ve ever gone for.

    15 January 2021
    THE LATEST LIBERTY

    THE LATEST LIBERTY

    The water is virtually finished, next the figure and all those distorted patterns which will add impact to the figure.

    12 November 2020
    TIME FOR A NEW LIBERTY

    TIME FOR A NEW LIBERTY

    Here's the painting at the under-painting stage, it'll be put aside for the paint to dry for a week or two and then hours and hours of brushwork. In fact weeks of brushwork! The patterns for the movement in the water will transform the blue areas. Canvas is 30 x 50 inches, so really a medium size for me.

    01 October 2020
    A TRADITIONAL ONE NEXT - MIGHT TITLE IT WATERLOO SUNSET

    A TRADITIONAL ONE NEXT - MIGHT TITLE IT WATERLOO SUNSET

    Going to paint one of my really traditional oils of Thames Sailing Barges when this sky has dried. Ochres and umbers creating a Victorian era river frontage to fill the foreground.

    23 April 2020
    MEMORIES

    MEMORIES

    I've found this photograph that shows my old cliff top studio (lower left), in the distance is Sidmouth. The original part of the studio building was built during the Napoleonic wars and was my studio from 1976 until 2001 (I think the photograph must have been taken about a year after I moved out). Looks so nice on a fine day but it wasn't quite the same when the weather was stormy! This stretch of coastline continues to feature in many of my traditional marine paintings.

    18 March 2020