I'm very excited to announce that three other fellow plein air painters (Roy Connelly, Paul Banning, Antony Bridge) and myself are featured in the new issue of Artists & Illustrators! And we are on the front cover!! I should play it cool and blasé but I'm far too thrilled and excited for that!
This is a special issue about plein air painting and the magazine followed us during a painting session outdoors. We all had to face pretty bad weather but it was a lot of fun. The magazine is out now so grab a copy if you can (for more info go to www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk). Here is below a small low resolution preview of the feature to give you a tease of what it looks like:
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| Roy Connelly and Paul Banning painting in Suffolk |
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| Roy Connelly and Paul Banning painting in Suffolk |
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| Antony Bridge and myself painting in Bath |
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| Antony Bridge and myself painting in Bath |
The magazine team has been really lovely and the photographer has been kind enough to send me all the great images of the day out painting in Bath where Antony Bridge and myself produced a painting near Putleney Bridge. I have included many pictures below. The photographer's name is Gareth Iwan Jones - do check out his beautiful website (www.garethiwanjones.com)
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
Here is below the painting I produced during the session. The weather was overcast and it even rained at some point but I managed to catch a glimpse of sun between the clouds:
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| Pulteney Bridge, Bath, in the afternoon 16"x9" oil on board |
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| Detail |
Below you'll see all the steps:
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
The finished painting:
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
Although we were both sitting on the same bench, Antony painted the Abbey (while I painted the bridge) and he did the lovely painting you can see below:
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| ©Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com |
Here is again my finished painting below. The painting session happened in the afternoon, and I must confess that Antony and I did arrive in the morning at the place to practice before the arrival of the magazine team. I painted exactly the same view, the first time as a practice, and since it was an overcast day, both paintings ended up looking very similar. Scroll below to see the first one!
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| Pulteney Bridge, Bath, in the afternoon 16"x9" oil on board |
Here is below the painting I did in the morning as a warm up:
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| Pulteney Bridge, Bath, in the morning 16"x9" oil on board |
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| The painting during the morning "warm up" session |
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| Detail of the morning painting |
After the afternoon painting session with the team, Antony and I decided to reward ourselves with a nice hot beverage in town. Although quite tired, we felt we could find time for a last little painting before calling it a day so we headed back to mine and set up in one of my favourite spots which shows beautiful views of Bath and we caught the sunset. I produced this little painting:
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| Bath view from Oldfield park, summer evening 10"x8" oil on board |
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| The painting towards the end |
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| Antony was loving those greens |
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| The sun came out and gave me the chance to add some lovely highlights |
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| Detail |
My paintings are available for sale directly from me or through a gallery and can be shipped worldwide. Prices depends on size and subject and generally range from £100 to £500. Please email me to check prices and availability at valpirlot1@hotmail.com
I would like to finish this post by mentioning that I currently have paintings on show at two places for the moment (Bristol and Corsham) so if you are around, please go and have a look:
"Inspired" at the Guidlhall Arts Centre in Bristol
A permanent painting and sculpture exhibition continuously updated throughout the year which precedes the Bristol Prize 2013.
The show currently includes all my recent Cornwall paintings.
Small Street, Bristol BS1 1DW
Mayastudio gallery
9B Station Road
Corsham SN13 9EY
Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm
The gallery currently includes my recent Bath paintings amongst others.
