Peter Goodhall

Joined Artfinder: Aug. 2014

Artworks for sale: 93

(19)

United Kingdom

Updates from Peter Goodhall's studio

  • A new painting and a whole lot of stretchers

    A new painting and a whole lot of stretchers

    That's 9 hardwood stretchers all assembled and waiting to have linen canvas stretched over them. 9 medium sized canvases in preparation for my forthcoming exhibition later this year.

    19 February 2020
    ETERNITY III

    ETERNITY III

    Here's the latest painting, a 40 x 60 inch wave painting, with just a few preliminary shapes blocked in. One hundred or so hours of painting and it should look quite different.

    19 February 2020
    A NEW SERIES IS BORN

    A NEW SERIES IS BORN

    Only at the under-painting stage and certainly with plenty more to do! The figure is almost life sized and will be bathed in patterns created by the light coming down through the water. The patterns of the movement under the actual surface of the water have yet to be developed. The first of my paintings with the nude completely submerged and also the first with coral on the sea bed. Coral, with the environmental issues coral has today is a new subject to paint for me and will bring a new colour palette to my painting. Always interesting to delve into a new subject and exploring new combinations of colours can lead to some pleasant surprises. And over the next month or so working on this painting I'll be able to contemplate on some titles for this new series.

    07 August 2019
    KOI ANTICIPATION IX

    KOI ANTICIPATION IX

    In this photograph of the painting all of the canvas has some covering of paint over it. Some areas still have significantly more detail to be added.

    24 July 2019
    KOI ANTICIPATION IX composition drawn out

    KOI ANTICIPATION IX composition drawn out

    The latest Koi painting, a 32 x 48 inch oil on canvas, here with the drawing out completed. A good few hours over a couple of days just designing the layout and all individually taken from photographs of my own fish. This is one of the more complex designs in my series of koi paintings. Next stage will be to add a base colour to the fish and then blacking out the water so that all of the white canvas is covered with something like the right colour.

    05 July 2019
    Supervisor on the case

    Supervisor on the case

    An interruption, turn your back and you lose your seat sometimes and she didn't even offer to do any work!

    05 July 2019
    CANVAS LIMITED EDITIONS

    CANVAS LIMITED EDITIONS

    Three of my limited editions on canvas photographed at a recent solo show.

    13 June 2019
    LIBERTY XI

    LIBERTY XI

    The water is well underway, just about to start painting the distorted shapes of underwater pebbles towards the lower edge of this painting. Then there's a few days work on the figure.

    30 May 2019
    KOI ANTICIPATION VIII under-painting

    KOI ANTICIPATION VIII under-painting

    Under-painting now completed, the painting will be put aside for a few weeks to allow the paint to dry before each fish has an average of a day spent painting detail and scale patterns etc.

    20 May 2019
    KOI ANTICIPATION VIII

    KOI ANTICIPATION VIII

    The first stages of the under-painting are going in. The basic colour for each of the fish with barely any detail but a bit of tonal variation. The detail will be added at the next stage. I'll keep posting as the painting progresses.

    14 May 2019
    KOI ANTICIPATION VIII

    KOI ANTICIPATION VIII

    The next in the Koi Series, here drawn out ready for some colour. This 60 cm square canvas is a slightly smaller one than the last few in the series and will possibly be published as a limited edition print and the print will be a similar size.

    14 May 2019
    MAYFLOWER, 1620

    MAYFLOWER, 1620

    Something completely different on the easel now, one of my very traditional marine paintings. I do quite a lot of historically researched paintings and many of my previous paintings in this style have been internationally exhibited. I've already painted several oils of the Mayflower. The Mayflower left Plymouth, England in September 1620 carrying Puritans who were escaping religious persecution. More popularly known today as The Pilgrim Fathers. For those familiar with Plymouth the landscape will undergo some significant changes in the decades following the 1620 voyage. In 1620 the existing fortifications were those designed by Francis Drake and mostly intended to offer protection from the Spanish to the small town of Sutton, today known as The Barbican. The Citadel which dominates the entrance to this part of Plymouth Sound today was constructed in the 1660s. The sky is finished and so is the background coastline. Everything else is still at the under-painting stage, although the sea bottom left is virtually completed.

    17 April 2019