Landscape – ‘Kephalonia’ – Oil pastel Landscape

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Kefalonia

On a family holiday abroad, many years ago, we stayed on the beautiful Island of Kefalonia. The clarity of light was amazing. People who had been there before had told me about this, but until you are actually there you really can’t understand fully what they mean. This picture was done from a photograph I took on a day trip roaming the island. To an artist the colours and light are amazing!

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“SCENE” From A Bench Series – ‘ELSEWHERE!’

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“SCENE” From A Bench Series – ‘ELSEWHERE!’

The imaginary picture above just seemed to pop into my head one day, as a vision of loneliness sitting at a remote train station waiting on a bench, for the train to come. I envisaged myself sitting on the bench and thought how you wouldn’t mind waiting if you were able to gaze at the distant landscape, letting your thoughts wander off into the distance. The title I gave to this piece, “Elsewhere!”, just seemed to sum up my random picture

This series of pictures have all been done using Oil Pastels and in each one I have placed a Bench. Always the same bench but sometimes I’ve flipped it around to suit the angle of the scene. All the pictures in this series are from my imagination and are drawn to give maximum illusion to the perspective of the landscape around and create as much depth as possible in the small images. Hence the series title, ‘ “SCENE” From A Bench’ !

Landscape – ‘Edgworth over to St. Anne’s – Soft Pastel Landscape

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‘Edgworth over to St. Anne’s

This landscape, done in soft pastel, was done from a photograph I’d taken on a beautiful Autumn day. The colours were superb and I think I have just about done them justice in this landscape of a local countryside scene!

Landscape Oil painting – The Last Drop Village, Bolton

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Sunshine and Shadows at The Last Drop Village

As well as the Walmsley Church Oil painting on previous page of landscapes I managed to capture this sunlit and shadow scene the same day on camera. Which I transferred onto canvas in oil paint. Oil paint and pastel are my favourite mediums to work with, as they both give the perfect expression I’m looking to achieve. Here the oil paint captures crisply, with true tones, the clarity of the day and its shadows. Whilst, pastel I feel, lends itself perfectly to the softness of animal portraits. That’s my opinion anyway!

Landscape Oil painting of Sleeping Shadows

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Sleeping Shadows

Whilst we seem to have very few sunny days around the area I live, when we do I spend my time  (Very quickly-I might add-
as it doesn’t stay very long) trying to capture the sun’s light and shadows on my camera. Then subsequently transferring to canvas. In this instance creating an Oil painting of a small church and graveyard on the fringe of Bolton. Walmsley Unitarian Chapel. The shadows struck me as somewhat symbolic as they gently seemed to rest over the earth, as if silently soul searching and encompassing. The moment seemed all so peaceful, that the light should cast shadows just so touching in this place.

Below is the photograph from which I made the Oil painting.