"Colour" Preview

Many thanks to everyone who came along to the preview of 'Colour' at the Lime Tree Gallery on Saturday!  Hope you enjoyed the paintings.

If you didn't manage along, here's a quick look at the show in the gallery.  The show certainly lives up to the name!

It's on until 6th May, so still plenty of time to see it.

The other exhibiting artists are Pam Carter, Marion Thomson and Peter King.

 

"Colour"

I've got paintings in a new show called 'Colour' that's opening at the Lime Tree Gallery in Long Melford in Suffolk.  It opens with a preview on Saturday 9th April from 10am-5pm.

I'll be exhibiting alongside Pam Carter, Marion Thomson and Peter King, all Scottish artists well-known for their exciting and vibrant use of colour.

Yellow Flowers in Spring Sunshine, Bass Rock (Oil on linen, 32 x 32)

View the exhibition HERE. 

My contribution to the show is built around the colours of the seasons, and the way that the landscape changes with the different light, flowers and plants throughout the year.

For winter, I looked at the soft, subdued colours of Scotland during short days in cold weather. This painting is of Glen Lochy, which is on the A85 heading from Dalmally to Tyndrum.

Winter Colours, Glen Lochy (Oil on linen, 24 x 26)

In spring, the days lengthen and the colours sharpen, and for summer, I looked at the vibrant shades of seasonal flowers in bright sunlight.  I have paintings of the blue of fragile harebells on cliffs in Northern Ireland, and the pinks and purples of waxy rhododendrons in the country park near my studio and sweet peas in my studio garden.

Summer Sweet Peas (Oil on linen, 16 x 16)

Autumn is all burning reds and oranges in the landscape, and a changing kaleidoscope of colour in stormy seas under turbulent skies on the coast.  This is of the long, low, shingle shore at Aldeburgh, looking out across the North Sea under the huge sky.
 

Autumn Sea with Dark Clouds, Aldeburgh (Oil, 8 x 10)

Do come along to the preview and see the show if you're in the area!

If you'd like to receive a catalogue in the post, or emailed in PDF form, then please contact me.

"Colour" at the Lime Tree Gallery, Suffolk

Also coming along shortly now is a show at the Lime Tree Gallery in Long Melford, Suffolk, with weel-kent Scottish artists Pam Carter, Joe Hargan and Peter King.

The theme of the exhibition is colour, and vibrant, expressive colour is one of the hallmarks of Scottish art.  This love of colour, along with energetic mark-making and a joy in the texture of oil paint are all characteristics of my work.

For the show, I have made a special collection of ten paintings, each of which celebrates a different colour. 

Over a series of months, I made careful studies and observations in various locations in Suffolk, Scotland and Northern Ireland, taking photographs and making notes. Back in the studio, I used this large library of reference material to create the finished oil paintings.

Each of my pictures at this exhibition has a key colour in their title and as their theme - hence the stormy olive green of the rough North Sea, the sunny yellow of autumn grasses, the uplifting red of poppies.  The colour is observed in nature, but is then heightened and emphasised in order to give an expressive and emotional force to the scene.

Colour, then, is not just purely descriptive, but also captures an emotional feeling of what is was like to be in the landscape, and a very specific sense of place and time.

To give you a flavour of the show, here are some of my collection. 

Olive Green Sea in Summer Storm, Aldeburgh (Oil on linen, 32 x 32)

Orange Carpet of Autumn Leaves (Oil on linen, 16 x 16)

Turquoise Evening Sea, Aldeburgh (Oil on linen, 32 x 32)

Pink Grasses in Sunlight, the Campsies (Oil on linen, 12 x 12)

You can also see a link to all the paintings here.  The show opens on Saturday 25th April, and runs until May 30th.