Fire - Paintings of Sky, Colour and Light

Currently Exhibiting

Roger Billcliffe Gallery Summer Exhibition

Exhibiting online in-

The Saatchi Gallery/

Your Gallery - The London Contemporary Art Gallery’s online presence

LAI - Landscape Artists International

Send Mail

Welcome

Privacy Policy

Cloud and sky painting in oil - Cloud Composition 3
Falls at Killin 150
Moonlight Oil Sketch
Oil Painting - Sunset Study 2
After the Greatest Clouds
Cloud Painting - Cloud Composition 5 Oil on Canvas

 Colour and light in landscape art

I’ve always reacted strongly to the landscape of the sky and if I could live in it, I would. Painting it is as close as I can get.

The significance of this moving landscape on our daily lives and emotions can’t be overestimated, and when we now spend  much more of our time indoors it is  important not to shut it out of our lives to our detriment, as though these things don’t matter.

Painting of Sunset - Light for the River

Light for the River  20x30ins. Oil on Board                                                               £850

I love the idea of “painting with light” and when using oil glazes over a brilliant white underpainting, it almost feels like this is happening.

Sunset oil painting - Barry Hill

Barry Hill 30 x36ins     Oil on Canvas                                                                       Sold

The symbolism of “light” and the sun run through every core belief of our species and make the act of painting these subjects much more than a technical exercise

Dawn painting of colour and light at sunrise

“The Dimming of the Day” 20x24ins.  Oil on Canvas        

Study for Elemental Sunset  - Oil sketch of Sunset

Study for Elemental Sunset  8x10ins.  Oil on Canvas                                              £175  

Because of the physics involved, the low angle of the sun at sunrise and sunset show the observer the greatest range of colours and tones that can be seen by human eyes. For an artist, no other subject comes close, and attempting to paint it is a massive challenge to the observational skills and the technique of a painter.

Convergence - painting of sunset

Convergence   9x10ins.  Oil on canvas.                                                                  £250    

A Quiet Land - Landscape painting of Sunset

A Quiet Land  24x30cms. (approx10x12ins)  Oil on Canvas                                            £250

Sunshine of the Light of Letters

The Sunshine of the Light of Letters  24x26ins  Oil on Canvas                                Sold

Oil Sketch of Dawn on the 11th September 2009

Oil Study for Dawn 11th September    8x10ins.   Oil on Canvas                               £175

Sunset

Sunrise over the Tay   20x22ins. Oil on Canvas  Sold

Sunset colours - Light in clouds at Sunset oil sketch

Rain Shower - Sunset 2  10x12ins.      Sold

Red Cloud - Sky painting of Sunset

Red Cloud  10x11ins.                                Sold

Small oil painting of dawn at sea

Dawn study 5  6x7ins Oil on Canvas      Sold

Oil painting of suns rays - Breaking through

Breaking Through   10x12ins.                        Sold

Modern Art Landscape - colours of evening sky

Dawn Study  6x7ins. Oil on Canvas    Sold

Painting the sun is an aspirational thing for me ever since I was told in my secondary school that “No artist has ever painted the sun”

This rather global statement was followed by the more practical observation that “It’s too bright”

This intrigued me at the time and has done ever since. After all, illustrating things that are “too bright” or “impossible to represent” has never stopped religion from doing just that, and at least we all accept that the sun exists.

The Malvern Hills - Oil painting of red sunset

The Malvern Hills   100x120 cm   (approx. 40x50ins)  Oil on Canvas                    Commission

When Turner was berated by a lady who informed him that She had never seen a sunset like “That” he replied “Perhaps, madam, but..... would you not like to?”

Cataclysmic oil painting - of Moniefieth
Contemporay Fiery Sunset - Paintings of sunset

Sunset High Wind  20x22ins.                   Sold

The Creation of Monifieth  10x11ins.           Sold

Turner’s interpretation of extremely strong light effects is often more realistic than it might appear at first sight. Many of the sumptuous colours that seem imagined can be retained in the eye as an after image. When this is overlaid on top of the actual image.......Turner knew what he was doing.

Lenticular clouds over Fountainhall, Borders
Red sunset colour study - Oil painting on gesso - Discovery Dawn

Colour Study for “Discovery Dawn”          Sold

These lenticular clouds were being illuminated by the setting sun. This was Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders but that evening in a dark red glow it looked more like Mars.

These narcissus clouds were seen from Broughty Ferry long after the sunset. Of all the cloud forms narcissus clouds occur at the highest altitude, almost on the edge of space.

 

.

 

Narcissus Clouds over Broughty Ferry