Paintings of colour and light, sunset and dawn

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

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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.




	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.




	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




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


	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 9x10ins. Oil on canvas. £250


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


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


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




	Sunrise over the Tay 20x22ins. Oil on Canvas Sold



	Rain Shower - Sunset 2 10x12ins. Sold



	Red Cloud 10x11ins. Sold




			Dawn study 5 6x7ins Oil on Canvas Sold



		Breaking Through 10x12ins. Sold



					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 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?”




		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.




	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.



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