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Oil painting from the dreams series. This painting uses subtle colours to depict riders approaching on their horses from the fog. It's a relaxing and atmospheric subject, which will hopefully allow the viewer to calm their nerves and dive into their own world of dreams. The work is painted on high quality linen canvas. It will look especially good in a light and bright interior.
‘Shine’ is an abstract painting I created with the theme of transformation as the basis for my inspiration. Specifically, the manner in which our thoughts can transmute and spark in new directions and lead us into new perspectives. This painting uses the brush marks to create an ethereal sense of imagery and a blurring of the different realms of thought our minds travel through on a daily basis. The medium I have used is ink and bleach to create an imagery of light contrasting through darker shades.
I created this piece combining rubber stamping, acid free inks and watercolor on top of handmade Khadi Cotton Rag paper from South India. No chlorine, bleaches or harmful chemicals are used in these papers; they are made with sensitivity to the local environment and the final water run-off from paper production is used to water an organic farm. Firstly, I painted the middle area of the paper in watercolor. Then, I drew the hummingbirds to be carved, transferred the drawings on the rubber block, carved them carefully, and created the original stamps. Finally, I used StazOn jet black ink pad for coloring my stamps, and printed them on the dry surface of the Khadi paper. There are 20 “design objects” printed in this technique in yellow and 20 in blue. Each print is therefore absolutely unique!
I have always been drawn to the ocean; capturing its movement, its form and its colour is a a challenge that I feel the need to take on. My work begins on site in my coastal home of South Wales. I can spend hours making sketches, taking photographs and taking notes on colour that will then come with me to my studio along with my memories. My preferred medium is oil paint; there is something about the transparency that I love, it allows me to create the illusion of depth through layers that you cant achieve with anything else. Although this can sometimes be seen as a slow and arduous task it also gives me freedom to work in fast short bursts giving me time to plan the next layers. As well as using brushes I like to get creative in the way I apply paint to canvas using everything from knives to a window squeegee. Painting should express who you are and the traditional should be challenged.
When I lived in Connecticut, I often visited Block Island. This painting is an abstracted aerial landscape reflecting a fanciful interpretation of the the section of Block Island I most visited - the town center, the airport, the ferry landing and the house in which I stayed. Squares of paper and long thin slices of paper represent the population hubs and transportation routes. The large, red sun in the upper right hand corner hovers over the ghost ship that legend tells us, pirated valuable bounty across the oceans and into hidden caches on this island. Many layers of thinly laid acrylic paint over collaged papers result in a depth of surface and luminous quality. When the painting part is mostly finished I use materials such as cut paper, mat board corrugated cardboard, textured paint scraps and found objects for additional descriptive textural elements. Oil pastel highlights are added at the end and the process is finished with a clear acrylic varnish for surface protection. The painting extends around all four sides of the gallery wrap canvas.
I created “Garden Retreat” en plein air last summer during the annual “Artists In the Garden” event, hosted by Union Street Gallery in Chicago Heights, Illinois. The garden I painted, "Jardin Delacroix" in Flossmoor, is quite lovely. I sought to portray it as a peaceful and inviting scene, with a small pond as the focal point. As I continued to work on the painting, I was influenced by the interplay of shade and light in the garden art of the Impressionists. I was recently juried into the Union Street Gallery Guild and was invited to participate in the Twelfth Month exhibit, where this painting was displayed. Shipped to the U.S. as is. For international sales: In order to keep shipping rates low, this painting is shipped as a rolled canvas. The rolled canvas is wrapped around wooden stretcher bars that can be used to re-stretch it after arrival.
I often get much of my inspiration from great oil painters such as Constable and Turner. They portrayed the English countryside in such a transcendent beauty and this is something I strive to show in my photographs. I put this photograph together after a completely spontaneous idea. The buttercups are suspended in the cracks of the floorboards, giving the illusion of growing indoors. Like all of my work I only ever edit in Lightroom, changing the lighting and colours of the image. Nothing has been added or manipulated.
A street somewhere in New York with a late afternoon sun shining down the street, a lone figure with a shopping bag walks towards us on the wet sidewalk made golden by the sunlight. I thought that I would try a cityscape in an upright panoramic format and based it on a yellow/violet complementary combination using more transparent colours for greater contrast and impact.
This is one of three collages available of the Dandelion at the Seed Head stage. I have used string to create the fonds and cotton wool to create the seeds; as normal with my work the backgrounds are created using layering and overlay techniques, but in this case the actual seed head is the final layer. It took two working days to create the fonds and seeds alone on each piece. They are dramatic, tactile and very much alive. These are filled with love and passion!
Having painted most of my artworks in acrylics and oils using traditional brush techniques, I decided to branch out and take courses on palette knife painting. I now enjoy the medium very much as the effect is very impressive at first glance and makes quite a talking point when displayed on the wall in the lounge, hall or dining room. In this painting I used vibrant oil colors to create this scene of a pleasant walk in late Autumn, along with various palette knife techniques. The scene depicts a pleasant walk in late Autumn amidst a lush forest after a heavy rainfall.
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