" Soft Moon - Shine "

 

                                  A recent painting and companion piece to the previous post.

                                     

                                              

                                        " Soft Moon - Shine" Acrylic on canvas  12" x 12"

" Pale Sun "

 

                     A new addition to the body of work for my latest exhibition at Bath Contemporary                                  Artists Fair. As the November exhibition was cancelled due to government                                                restrictions during the pandemic, it's hoped that we can show again in December.

                                                                               

                                                                             

                                                 

                                                       "Pale Sun" - Acrylic on canvas 12" x 12"

                                                 

                                                         

                 

Bath Contemporary Artists Fair

                                               

                                                                                                       

                                                  BCAF  EXHIBITION 

                                              

                                                    12" x 12" canvases for sale 

                   I'll be exhibiting at the Bath Contemporary Artists Fair on October 11th.                                                  This is an exciting new venture with stands for up to thirty artists. My work                                              will be mainly acrylic on canvas and all work will be for sale. With free                                                    admission and on site catering this will be a great day open to all from 10                                                   until 5pm.  Further dates will be in November and December perfect for                                                                                               Christmas gifts.     

                  For more information go to the website  www.bcaf.co.uk 

                                                        

                                                 

"Greek shoreline"

 

                                   The shoreline at St. Thomas beach in Pefkos on the island of                                                                               Rhodes is the inspiration for this latest work.                                  

                                       

                                                                 

                         

                                     

                                                 "Rockpools" - Acrylic on canvas   20" x 20" 

"First there is a mountain"..........

                              "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain,
                                                   then there is " -  Donovan 




                          The influence in landscape painting of a feature that comes to
                          dominate an artist's work and which he or she returns to often,
                          is the presence of a mountain.

                          The obvious candidate here is Paul Cezanne and his numerous
                          works featuring Mte. St. Victoire in the Aix En Provence region
                          of France. But two other painters that I admire also return to the
                          hills and mountain motif, depicting it in both figurative and
                          abstract ways.

                          The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887- 1986) moved to
                          New Mexico in the 1940's and purchased "Ghost Ranch House".
                          The house and land afforded spectacular views of a barren
                          landscape and the magnificent " Cerro Pedernal" a flat- topped
                          mountain that featured in many of her paintings.

                          Likewise, the Lebanese/American painter, poet and essayist
                          Etel Adnan (b. 1925) has lived in various countries around the
                          world and in 1977 moved to live and work in California. There
                         she was greatly influenced by Mount Tamalpais, which she drew
                         and wrote about and frequently painted in it's abstract form.

                          In my own work I have often depicted the hills and mountains
                          of Greece, the dormant volcanoes of the Timanfaya national
                          park and more recently the Alpes Maritime region, bordering
                          Nice on the French Riviera.

                                                                 

                                           " Timanfaya - Sunset" - Acrylic on canvas 12" x 12"

                                                                               

"Les Alpes Maritimes - Nice" - Acrylic on canvas  24" x 24"

  

"Return to Crete"

                      This week should have been a Spring break that I had booked to
                      return to Chania on the Greek island of Crete. However due to the
                      coronavirus  pandemic this trip and all foreign travel for the immediate
                      future has been cancelled. 

                      Looking back at the drawings and notes that I made two years ago, I
                      thought I'd like to revisit the area in Western Crete known as the
                      "White Mountains". 

                      Although snow - capped in the winter months, the geology of this area
                      makes the mountains appear white, even in the summer.         

                     My trip there and the stop at the small town of Therissoss was an area
                     that reminded me of the limesone gorges here in the West of England.


                                                             

"Crete - The White Mountains" - Acrylic on canvas 12" x 12"

 

"A to Z Exhibition "

                        During the current "lockdown" I'm exhibiting a new painting in the current
                       exhibition at 44AD gallery which is online only.
                       The A to Z exhibition is to showcase work responding to a letter of the
                       alphabet with my work dealing with the word "Between".


                                                         

"Between the sea and the Sky - The Harbour at Antibes"

Acrylic on canvas  20" x 20"

                    I've also produced a smaller study of  the Antibes area.           

"Boats at Antibes" - Acrylic on canvas 12" x 12"