Heswall’s annual festival fortnight includes a substantial arts trail, including Two Rivers in Heswall Library Gallery. Here’s the link: http://www.heswallfestival.com/index.php/other-events/art-trail-2014
I’ll be showing half a dozen or so paintings as part of the group. All welcome.
These watercolours came from a series of photographs I took on a visit to Thurstaston beach last summer. I merged the photos into a curved, wide horizon. The view across the Dee estuary is of Flintshire and the Point of Ayr. Much of the estuary has become salt marsh, but at Thurstaston the tide still ebbs and flows. Early paintings were studies, but in later versions I felt able to be more expressive, sometimes using white wax crayon as an under-drawing.
Thurstaston Gold & Blue (watercolour 2013) SOLD
Thurstaston Pink & Grey (watercolour and wax crayon 30x30cm framed, image size approx 16x14cm) £110 postcards 75p
Thurstaston Shore 2011 (watercolour) A4 total size framed £45
Hilbre Evening (watercolour & wax 2011) A4 total size framed £45
Panorama (watercolour & wax) 2011 SOLD
Thurstaston Panorama unframed watercolour A3 £25
Liking Ivon Hitchin’s landscapes a lot at the moment.
Recently I’ve been experimenting with panoramic photography, creating curved horizons with a limited colour palette (click on the title above to see an example). Somehow the curves excite me more than a flat line, and the chalky skies have me reaching for a paintbrush… I’m reminded of paintings like the one above by the Scottish artist Joan Eardley. I came across Eardley’s work not long after leaving art school and admired her colours, energy and abstraction. I’m also revisiting the work of Anne Redpath, another Scottish artist on my inspiration list.
quick sketch in watercolour – I’m limbering up for my teaching stint on board the cruise ship ‘Oceana’, heading off for two weeks in the Med shortly
Collage for the exhibition ‘de-Junk, re-Junk’ opening on 18th July at Birkenhead Park Visitor Centre. Curated by Alison Bailey Smith, the show comprises art made from…. junk! About twenty artists have work in the gallery, which is open daily until 31st July.
‘Windows’ (graphite on paper) was inspired by Myra Schneider’s poem of the same name. An earlier version of the drawing appeared on the front cover of Orbis International Poetry Quarterly (Spring 2002) in which the poem also appears. This version is due to be published in Artemis poetry magazine. Further images from previous posts here are also due to appear in the online Glasgow Poetry Review.
I will be exhibiting shortly with The Toxteth Art Gallery in the Liverpool Biennial 2008. Our exhibition In an Ideal World will be in St Brides Church, Percy Street, from 20th September until 30th October.
Opening Times 12-5 pm Wednesday til Sunday (Private view 19th September 5 -8 pm)
This information is now on the independents website: http://www.independentsbiennial.com/2008events?start=40
‘Plane’ mixed media £85 framed – one of four pieces in the Toxteth Art Gallery Exhibition In An Ideal World (see link below). In an ideal world I’d be windsurfing all the time and writing poetry as well as making pictures. I’ll keep saying that so it comes true….
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