Painting Light and Colour

‘Cordes sur Ciel’

Oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm

Status: Private collection, France

Cordes sur Ciel

This view of Cordes is a slightly abstracted one I painted recently. Cordes Sur Ceil literally means ‘Cordes in the sky, or heavens’, and when the weather provides the right conditions and moisture, it appears like an island in the sky, completely surrounded by clouds. In this case, the blues of the sky are reflected into the tops of the clouds, and infusing the shadows on the fortress hilltop. This allows for a stunning contrast against the warm yellows and pinks where the sun hits the east side of the buildings.

This original has been sold, but I am making large (A2) prints available for €15.00, plus post and packaging to your part of the world. If you would like one, just send me an email with your details. Payment as per usual can be made through PayPal, or any major debit or credit card.

‘Life Drawing’

Screen Print, 40 x 30 cm, limited edition of 5

Status: For Sale €60, unframed

Life drawing

Print making is one of the things that I would like to do more of.  As the weather is starting to get colder here in Amsterdam, and the window for landscape painting is getting somewhat restricted, I did hie me down to the Amsterdam Grafisch Atelier to refresh my screen printing skills. There is quite a bit of technology and kit required for printing, but the payoff is that once you get things set up, you can then print off large numbers of images, and you can therefore let them go at a significantly lower price.

I used existing images of drawings, and amalgamated a number of different images onto the print, laying them down using various colours. The result is interesting in that they are fragments of my drawings which have now been ‘collaged’ together on a 2 d colour image.