I hope you are keeping well.
It might be a good time to catch up with you and show you some of the paintings I have recently completed.
Atmospheric Irish Landscape 1
As Far as the Eye Can See VIII
150 cm x 100 cm x 3.5 cm acrylic on canvas.
This painting is sent safely rolled in a tube and will require to be taken to a framer to be stretched.
This is a continuation of the ‘As Far as I Can See’ series of paintings.
Once again we are high above the land looking out and across to the glow of the sea and horizon, that indistinct line where they meet.
This drama plays out before our eyes, rain and sunshine mingle to create colour and light on the glowing hills.
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Atmospheric Irish Landscape 2
As Far as the Eye Can See VII
80 x 100 cm x 3.5 cm acrylic on canvas, ready to hang.
In this second painting, the day is calmer.
Filtered light breaks through the drifting clouds and mingles with the mist on the distant blue hills.
I wanted to create a feeling of space almost as we are in a dream-like state floating above the land.
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Magical Nocturne
Lovers of the Lake II
25.8 cm x 20.5 cm x 2 cm acrylic on canvas, ready to hang.
Beneath the wondrous night sky, the lovers commune with nature as their boat drifts silently on the still lake.
Imagine yourself in the boat…
I hope you enjoy these new paintings.
Which one do you like most?
I’d love to hear from you.
Hello John, it was such a lovely surprise to receive your email and blog today and a real pleasure to be able to enjoy your three new paintings. Thank you so much for sharing your work. I like and admire them all but there are aspects of each painting that I particularly love:
1. In the first, it is the sky and those wonderful clouds with the filtering subtle light effects that lift me up to soar across the beauty of the landscape. In contrast is the downward diagonal sheet of rain drifting down to earth .
2. In the second, I feel closer to the land, enough to appreciate the marks and rock veins on the hillside. I have a sense of looking through the glen, above the delicate light of the meandering river. Both paintings give me an emotional feeling of space and distance.
3. This one is quite different but also has the power to take me to another place; a silent, still and secret place, as if seeing into a private dream. The dramatic colour effects are stunning.
All three are beautifully executed and amazingly… they are all achieved by your skilled use of paint. Many congratulations!
Hello Chris, it’s great to hear that you enjoyed the three paintings. Thanks for your thoughtful comments on them
Yes, John, what a surprise and a pleasure to hear from you today. I hope you and yours are keeping well.
I agree with Chris’s keen observations and would add that in the third painting, the couple seem to inhabit, physically and psychologically, a liminal space between the blazing stars and their reflected light on the water. They are surrounded by light but enveloped in the holy darkness of a world known only to them. Maybe this aligns with Chris’s lovely description of a “private dream.”
Thank you, John!
Hello Jo,
Thanks for your kind words and insights on the third painting.