Current Work
The latter part of 2007 and into 2008 has seen a transition from pastels into oils. Although a change of mediums, it has been a progression of styles, as with each completed pastel they have become more 'painterly' and in my minds eye I have been able to envisage them as oil paintings.
The oils have been a breath of fresh air after being bound by the technicalities and constraints of water colours and pastels for so long.
The work starts as sketches in charcoal and pastel and develop into oil paintings. Most of the work over the winter has been of the upper stretches of How Stean Gorge and the Nidd towards Scar Reservoir.
I am currently working on a series of small oils which will be part of my exhibition in November entitled "Glimpses" . These are all views in and around Nidderdale, maybe just a barn, pathway, or waterway, little glimpses of life in the dale that may be hidden or very familiar to people living in the dale.
Another set of paintings in progress is for the Great North Art Show held in Ripon Cathedral in late August this year. I think I will be using Hackfall Woods near Grewelthorpe as inspiration, although no definite decisions have been made.
