Andrew Hood (Artists in focus No.5)

                 I spent the morning with the artist Andrew Hood. Based in Bristol England,
                 he was holding a studio exhibition entitled "City + Land" featuring recent
                 paintings and drawings from locations as diverse as the city of London to
                 beach scenes from the South of France. 
                                                        
                                                                      

Andrew Hood in the studio

 

Hood uses sketches made on location and produces, back in the studio, smaller

works on board to further explore the subjects and produce the finished work.

 

 

 

Sketchbooks

 

 

Using a variety of mediums including oil paint, bitumen and even barge paint!

has given Hood a direction in which "happy accidents" and the "fluidity" of paint

produces work in which an element of chance is embraced.

 

 

 

 

 

Finished framed paintings

 

 

 

 

 

To see more of Andrew's work go to www.andrewhoodgallery.com

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Beer & Lyme (not a drink!)

                       Another recent visit to the towns of Beer and Lyme Regis on the
                       East Devon / Dorset coast. Bright weather and even warm Autumn
                       sunshine made for rich colours and a respite before Winter sets in.

                                                               

                                                       "Fishing boats - Beer beach"
                                                                                              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Gulls following a fishing boat entering Lyme Harbour"

 

 

 

"Crows over Beer"- Acrylic on paper 10"x 10"

("rough cut" sketch for finished acrylic on canvas)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greek island painting

                    A new piece of artwork from the sketchbook and photographs from
                    the trip to Pefkos on Rhodes. Looking out onto this hill I could watch a
                    herd of goats make their way down a track each day and sometimes come
                    through a gap in the fence to nibble the grass in the hotel grounds that the
                    gardener was attempting to grow!

                                                             
                                                                

 

                                       "Rocky outcrop Pefkos" - Acrylic on canvas 20"x20"