Original artwork description:

‘LOVELY THUNDER’ is an acrylic painting developed from observations of the coastal landscape of Sefton where I live and by an ambient neo classical musical piece by Harold Budd. The phrase 'Lovely Thunder' suggests beauty with an undertone of menace. At the time of the making the work we were experiencing thunderstorms which lit up the sky accompanied by the drone of thunder… beauty and menace. This isn’t a literal painting. It exists as a painting in its own right. It is about giving an immediate response to an event and a memory of being in a location. It is gestural and expressive. The combination of Budd’s haunting music and the dynamics of an electric storm have inspired this work. I am always inspired by the work of the Fauvists and the Expressionists together with modernists Gillian Ayres, Howard Hodgkin and John Hoyland alongside contemporary colourists such as Barbara Rae.
“Lovely Thunder” is an acrylic painting on 300gms canvas paper. It is 40cms wide and 30cms in height. It is presented/shipped in an ivory card window mount (see pictures) 50x40cms at a cost of £250, not including postage. The mounted painting is shipped in a reinforced card folder.
The painting can also be purchased in a white glazed frame 53x43cms (see pictures) at a cost of £275 + postage. Postage for the framed / glazed picture in the U.K. is £20, to Europe £45 to U.S.A. £85.

Materials used:

Acrylic on 300gms canvas paper