October in Margate

My recent show in Margate gave me an opportunity to do a few doodles of the seafront in the evening light. I used watercolour pencils and wash for the three sketches and watercolour with body colour for the final one.

Evening sunset glow

Late afternoon on the harbour wall

After sunset

After sunset watercolour

Fiery Sunset

Frieze Artwork

Working with the Made in Greenwich Gallery, I have developed a number of ideas for interior design projects. Largely exploring the idea of bespoke frieze deigns for application to walls in either a paper or canvas material.

The first results are shown here:

Wild sea

Antigua

Breakers

Dunes

St Ives Harbour

Painting water is a constant and ever changing visual challenge for me, its power and movement, mood and above all its reflective qualities are so transient and difficult to capture in paint.

I have a small collection of photographs in iPhoto, taken a few summers ago in St Ives Cornwall that I have flicked through a number of times. I had been captivated by the strong contrast in the primary colours of the boats and the delicate reflections on the water. I made a mental note to try to render some of this in paint.

A couple of weeks ago I took the plunge! (Pardon the terrible pun), and here is the result.

Small boats in St. Ives harbour.