A wide variety of colourful oil and watercolour local landscapes and other work, mostly in a traditional style, will be on display in a variety of shapes and sizes, framed and unframed, together with original hand-produced linocut prints and reproduction giclée prints of paintings.
Fellow artist Patsy Jones will be sharing the exhibition space with her landscape oil paintings, linocuts and collages.
The Vale and Downland museum venue can be found in Church Street, Wantage, OX12 8BL, tucked behind the Market Square and opposite the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. Parking is available (ticket required, first hour free) at three Council owned car parks, the closest to the museum being on Portway (OX12 9BU), alternatively Limborough Road (OX12 9AJ) and Mill Street (OX12 9AJ).
When painting I aim to capture those fleeting light effects on the landscape or colour combinations that transform a scene and make it special. My subject matter is often the local landscape near my home but I am always drawn to anywhere with water and/or rocks. I tend to produce ‘recognisable’ images but have recently painted some landscape montages that twist multiple views and meld them into an overall image – as Eric Morecambe said “..all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order”. I have experimented with adding text and calligraphic forms into some of my pictures.
Watercolour is my first love as a medium but I also work in oils, acrylics, mixed media and reduction linocut printing. I try to push the reduction linocut process to give what I feel is a painterly outcome, which usually means there will be small variations to each print within any single edition run making each print truly unique.