Wild Edge Gallery

I have recently sent three paintings to exhibit in a gallery ran by a friend of mine, Erica Sharpe, in Wedmore, Somerset UK. They are "Morning Mist, High and Over", "From The White Horse" and "Light on the Ouse". All three are located in the East Sussex countryside near to where I live, the last two paintings starting out as plein air pictures in oil on board that were finished in the studio. "From the White Horse" was a finalist in the Landscape Challenge of International Artist magazine published April/May 2012.
The address of the gallery is:
9 Borough Mall,
Wedmore,
Somerset
BS28 4EB
01934 710451

Morning Mist, High and Over

From the White Horse

Light on the Ouse

Faeral - stage 13

Managed to get a few hours' work on it this morning so I carried on working on the figure. Still a way to go yet but I am getting to see how much I want her to merge into the background colours. Hard to photograph as the digital camera tends to over saturate and adds too much contrast.

Abend Gallery Miniatures Show

The 26th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show opened on the 2nd December at the Abend Gallery, Denver Colorado. It runs to the 31st December and I have six paintings in the show, all are 12" x 12" oil on board:

It's Time For Your Bath!

Battersea Sunrise

Born Under A Bad Sign

Duck O' War

High Over Madurai

Piccadilly Circus 6pm

 

Faeral - stage 12

Finally managed to get something done after a week's layoff due to being away and getting my tax accounts together. I have put some preliminary work into the figure, making sure that she doesn't stand out too much from the background to try and get across that she is a denizen of the woods and forests and we're not meant to see her if we ever came across her! The colours in the painting itself are nearer to more burnt oranges and reds, an Autumnal picture I suppose influenced by the current season.

Faeral - stage 11

Pretty much finished the foreground and intend to start on the figure next session. It's very hard to photograph accurately but this photo at least shows how I intend to keep the colours within a limited range of reds to yellows with the figure blending into the background. This decision was made to keep a strong design to the painting and also to make it more interesting - if I had painted it in more natural colours I think it would be less interesting, in the end I want quite a Fantasy look to this picture.

Faeral - stage 10

Due to having to spend what limited time I have on getting my tax assessment ready for my accountant I have not had much time on this session to paint. All I have managed to do is carry on working on the foreground which actually doesn't look much different from before, it is also not helped by being a difficult painting to photograph and today it is very dull in the studio due to cloud.

Abend Gallery

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The Abend Gallery in Denver, Colorado is now starting to advertise the upcoming Miniatures Show which I have six paintings in. Here is their Facebook page for it. A detail of my painting "High Over Madurai"  is second from left.