Here are a few of my paintings. This one I call Blue Sky Dreaming.
Painted during the first ‘lockdown’ in 2020 from a photograph of Blue Anchor Bay, it is painted in oils on 16″x 20″canvas board.
These are small studies in acrylic. The boats were from a sketch made at Watchet Marina in 2018.
‘Widemouth Bay ‘ was painted in oils using cold wax as a medium, which I also used for the picture of Kerry Ridgeway below. The technique was new to me and I think it works better with the inland landscape.
The seascape painting was an attempt to evoke the bright white frothy surf of the sea at Widemouth, where we visited in 2017, staying nearby in Bude. Everywhere seemed huge; very wide and very much open, just sea and sky but so much movement. It was like being part of the ocean. I have posted a photo I took to work from on the photos page.
The painting below is from a photograph I took in 2015 while walking on the Kerry Ridgeway in Shropshire. It was May and the gorse was stunning. The picture was almost entirely painted with a palette knife using small painted sketches as references, as well as the photo. The medium is oil and cold wax on 10″x 12″ board.
This picture was painted from a photo I took of this quaint Cornish hamlet on the Helford river. It marked a leap from still life to landscape painting at the time and, having all the elements of sea sky, trees and buildings, I felt that I had been able to demonstrate skills in drawing and composition, and the use of colour. However the still picture box quality of the scene leaves me feeling uncomfortable. It lacks movement. I may go back to it and add in some life; perhaps the children playing with a boat.
Below is an acrylic painting on 10″x8″ board from the photograph of the Exe estuary between Dawlish Warren spit and Exmouth
Below are some paintings from 2019/2020 which was a time of challenge and change due to a diagnosis of lymphoma and subsequent treatment plus the restrictions due to the COVID 19 epidemic.
‘Bellever Forest Dartmoor was started in Dawlish Devon and finished in 2019.
Below
Wild Flowers at Kilve, Somerset. Oil on board
Pat Rhodes Art 