Oil on Board, 10 x 17 inches
Brancaster Staithe is a brilliant place for artists -
lots of old sheds, boats, fishing paraphernalia, mud, marsh, posts,
rocks - all wonderful to paint. With bright early morning light
flooding the scene, there was plenty of contrast with light and shade
abounding throughout, yummy! I love painting wet mud, using a palette
knife to drag darker spots over the sticky paint underneath - very
tactile.
For a change, I employed an old credit card to spot in the masts of the
distant boats - very tricky with a rigger, or any brush for that matter,
but using the card with ust the right amount and mix of paint, I found I
could place them in with minimum fuss.
This is my third and final painting submitted for the RSMA Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. I was a little dismayed to get a call from my usual courier on Wednesday night when I was giving a demo in Bedfordshire, to check that it was okay to pick up my three paintings to take to London in the morning at 7.30am... Thinking he would be collecting them on Saturday morning, none was framed and I knew I wouldn't be home until 11.30pm at the earliest, gulp. So, working until 2.45am to get the frames painted and waxed, varnishing and fitting the two paintings I had finished into them and taped up, labelled and the relevant paperwork done, I managed four hours sleep that night!
Disappointed that I couldn't submit the third painting allowed as an associate member of the RSMA because it wasn't finished, I was thrown a lifeline - on speaking to my colleague John Lines about having some new work from him for the gallery, he said he was going down on Saturday to take his and some other work down to the Mall. So, I managed to get this one done, and paint the frame and whizz it over to Rugby to give to John to take for me, phew!
I spent half an hour with John, one of my very favourite painters, 'talking shop', and collected a new painting of his for the gallery. He is a genuinely lovely, warm man, and a brilliant artist and someone I would rank as one of the very finest landscape painters living today. And it was refreshing to see that his studio was as messy as mine, too! Have a look at the painting I collected from him at https://www.facebook.com/peterbarkerfineart?fref=nf and after 10.15 today, Saturday on the gallery website at http://www.peterbarkerfineart.co.uk/
This is my third and final painting submitted for the RSMA Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. I was a little dismayed to get a call from my usual courier on Wednesday night when I was giving a demo in Bedfordshire, to check that it was okay to pick up my three paintings to take to London in the morning at 7.30am... Thinking he would be collecting them on Saturday morning, none was framed and I knew I wouldn't be home until 11.30pm at the earliest, gulp. So, working until 2.45am to get the frames painted and waxed, varnishing and fitting the two paintings I had finished into them and taped up, labelled and the relevant paperwork done, I managed four hours sleep that night!
Disappointed that I couldn't submit the third painting allowed as an associate member of the RSMA because it wasn't finished, I was thrown a lifeline - on speaking to my colleague John Lines about having some new work from him for the gallery, he said he was going down on Saturday to take his and some other work down to the Mall. So, I managed to get this one done, and paint the frame and whizz it over to Rugby to give to John to take for me, phew!
I spent half an hour with John, one of my very favourite painters, 'talking shop', and collected a new painting of his for the gallery. He is a genuinely lovely, warm man, and a brilliant artist and someone I would rank as one of the very finest landscape painters living today. And it was refreshing to see that his studio was as messy as mine, too! Have a look at the painting I collected from him at https://www.facebook.com/peterbarkerfineart?fref=nf and after 10.15 today, Saturday on the gallery website at http://www.peterbarkerfineart.co.uk/
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