cornwall in abstract
The Wave, Cornwall, acrylic on board, ,80 x 55cm, 2017, £395.
The Wave
This piece was made after a week in Cornwall on a course with Hannah Woodman. I was inspired by the hidden depth in the landscape there; the archaeology in the land. If you sit and paint Cornwall, you quickly become aware that there is so much more to it than the pretty skylines: There is a long history of hard work. Below the surface of the Cornish landscape, there is a legacy of mining, the minerals (tin, copper, ore), and then the sea underneath all that - which is the most powerful element of all. The only way to try to capture all that is to take a slice out of the landscape, almost, which is what I’ve tried to do here.
The white in this painting represents a powerful wave, hitting all that archeology. The colours in the earth represent the minerals in the rock.
The Wave, Cornwall, acrylic on board, 2017. 80 x 55cm.
abstract beach
This is one of a group of abstract pieces I made whilst I was on a course led by Hannah Woodman and Kerry Harding, in Cornwall. We were working with a restricted palette of just three, acrylic colours, all sat on a stony beach on a grey day. I chose ochre, ultramarine and black… and white - which was cheating - except that I got away with it because black and white are arguably tones, not colours. This is a large painting, deliberately abstract and rich.
Abstract Beach, acrylic on card, 2017, 82 x 60cm, £695 framed.