Ashwinstudio art blog » landscape painting

Mayday Marina

Ashley — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:20:52 +0000

Finally, my painting titled Mayday Marina is dry enough to be hung in an exhibition at the Williams Gallery. Whilst painting this, I really wanted to capture some the energy of the busy yachts and the array of colours. I applied the paint thickly with big brushes and palette knives.

Mayday Marina

Ten Mile Bank viewed from Brandon Creek

Ashley — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:04:15 +0000

I painted this view, another in my Fenland Series, of Ten Mile Bank near Brandon Creek in June. I painted this wet in wet with mostly a large brush as I rushed to capture the vivid blue fen sky and the morphing clouds.

Ten Mile Bank Viewed from Brandon Creek

New painting titled Fen Storm

Ashley — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:51:38 +0000

Fen Storm is a different painting to my recent work, it is painted with free , expressive and large brush strokes. I really enjoyed painting this and will work in this way on future paintings. I hope I have managed to capture the atmosphere off being caught in the storm – I got totally soaked during this storm.

Fen Storm - Oil painting

Tree paintings in exhibition

Ashley — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:20:15 +0000

Decided to show two of my paintings depicting avenue of trees and different times of the year.

June Avenue, oil on canvas

June Avenue was painted a few months ago but is based on paint sketches made last year.

Autumn Avenue, oil on canvas

Autumn Avenue is also based on sketches made at Jesus Green, Cambridge last autumn. Both paintings are very influenced by Impressionism.

Watching paint dry

Ashley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:33:32 +0000

I have paintings on the go, all at different stages, some very close to completion and others midway. However, they are all at a stage where they need to dry before I can continue.

Three are landscapes and two are abstract. Hopefully, I will post some pics of them soon.

Angling on the Norfolk Broads

Ashley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:54:02 +0000

Just finished some retouching on one of my older oil paintings of the Norfok Broads

Norfolk Broad Series

Fen Mist near Benwick

Ashley — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:35:22 +0000

Finally finished this oil painting of a misty fen day near Benwick.

Misty day on the fens near Benwick

New Landscape Exhibition

Ashley — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:27:40 +0000

I am exhibiting paintings from my Fenland Series at the Williams Art Gallery. Exhibition starts May 5th. Other artists involved will be Richard Keys, Gail de Cordova, Nicholas James Juett, Jess Sutton and Maureen Mace.

Progress Green

Ashley — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:45:52 +0000

Just finished this experimental painting, it is painted in oils on canvas board, and in style sits somewhere between my abstract and fenland landscape work. It is my way of expressing how I see some of my local landscape disappearing and being polluted. On the other hand, with engineering and sculptural background, I find the structures fascinating! And don’t get me wrong, I’m all for progress and I know many areas need regenerating and people need jobs but sometimes the development is not well thought through and with no regard to nature and the environment. Often, a petrol station pops up in the middle of the green belt, soon followed by other buildings: The station closes and then another pops up a few miles down the road and so the process continues. All the time eroding the landscape!

Progress Green, oil on canvas board, framed

Sunrise on the fens

Ashley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:49:35 +0000

I have just completed a new oil painting for my fenland series – literally the paint is still wet.

It is 24 x 18 inches and on a deep canvas so does not need a frame.

Oil painting depicting the fenland landscape