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small country living

April 24th, 2010

I cycled ten miles yesterday… passed these farm buildings on my return (first noted on the outward journey)… not particularly thrilled with these sketches as they were quite rushed; ten-fifteen minutes or so for the first two, less for the last one…


[barn and sheds, seen from the roadside]


[barn buildings, near a bend]


[farm buildings, viewed across corner of a field]

These sketches are about 8″ x 11″. For anyone interested in my sketching methods, I used watercolour pencils on lightly pre-dampened paper. These sketches, although appearing representational, is not what I am striving for – the regional art scene is saturated with representational landscapes. It is more to do with working quickly ‘on location’ that I think re-awakens a different part of my creative brain, quite separate from an isolated studio practice largely driven by concepts and processes. I am interested too in the prevailing art aesthetic-sisation of mundane, rural scenes. I am pondering whether to use my amazon voucher to purchase a book on Andrew Wyeth’s landscapes…


Andrew Wyeth, House near Chadd’s Ford

Today, after visiting the Harleston Gallery, I stopped by the local allotments – there will be an art & allotments themed exhibition in the future… I captured a couple of quick abstracts, looking for bold interactions of colour, both of which (here) contained the complementary colours blue and orange…

and here, I  just thought the arrangement of the water butts placed next to the potting shed made a pleasing composition, a still life of sorts…

The HWAT Mini Artworks & Showcase exhibition is now open…

I am not sure that my painting Fenn (pictured left) looks quite right hung next to a small etching and a life drawing, but it is, at least, currently in a gallery and not on my wall… the wall of mini-artworks looks really appealing though; many art bargains to be had at only £25 each…

Click here to read about HWAT’s Mini-Works and Showcase Exhibition

It’s the last weekend of the Artworks exhibition at Wingfield Barns Arts Centre

farmscape painting

February 28th, 2010

One of my farmscapes, farmed and now framed…


[farmscape I, mixed media on canvas, 60cm x 120cm]

There is a reference to landscape in colour and format, a modulation of stripes hint at the structures of agriculture – a farm (buildings) and its landscape (fields) distilled into one work, when viewed in both the horizontal and the vertical… here are a couple of images showing some textural surface details…

This prompted me to sift through a few of my journal’s farmyard and field photographs, to illustrate further…

and the striations live on, long after the painting has ceased… I have been keeping all of the masking tape discards…

painting stripes - masking tape

painting stripes - masking tape

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