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I generally use acrylics due to their quick drying nature which suits the short timespan of a painting demonstration.
My preferred method of painting is working from dark to light, setting up the mass of the landscape using silhouettes of the divisions in distance, mid-ground and foreground in blocked tonal steps to create recession. I then work over these dried areas with pastel highlights for the distance, increasing the saturation and temperature of colour as I work my way forwards out of the picture. The scale of texture also increases until the foreground becomes full of gesture and contrasts.
I try and show the weather in my paintings to capture the movement of the atmosphere and how that interacts with the landscape.
A1 size acrylic on board. Digital prints available. Please enquire about sizes and costs
Acrylics on board. Original is A1 size.
The inspiration was to paint this view as I remember it from about 1975 and by doing so connect with others memories.
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A1 size acrylics on board. The dragonfly and damselfly are painted in mother of pearl and metallic colours.
The inspiration was contemplating how the world could become truly beautiful again and the realisation that the only way would be without humans.
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A1 size acrylics on board.
Painted without reference on background of influenced cling film textures.
The moon is painted with mother of pearl lustre.
The foreground grasses are painted over a poem inspired by a Chanctonbury legend.
Chanctonbury Ring
Seven Times Backwards Round I Ran,
Around The Crown of Copper Trees,
That Cling to Iron Aged Rings,
With Ruined, Roman Temple Heart.
It Was a Different Night Than This,
A Moonless One with Troubled Clouds,
On Which the Devil Offered Me,
Not Bowl of Milk for Mortal Soul,
But Granting of My Heart’s Desire.
M. Finch
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A1 size acrylics on board.
Inspired by showing our sky from above and as the thin arc of atmosphere.
The arc has metal flake paint added and small pieces of aluminum foil have been incorporated in the glaze across the rest of the image to show human influence on this environment is building what's known as the Kessler Effect. Essentially the volume of space debris will prevent us navigating from Earth out to space in the future.
A1 size acrylic on board. Digital prints available please enquire for sizes and costs
A1 acrylic painting inspired by William Blake’s poem “The Auguries of Innocence”.
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4ft x 2ft acrylic painting viewing East from Chanctonbury Ring.
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Spontaneous painting having selected 5 old oil pints with no labels, cut the tubes open and used the available colours
mixed media using oil pastel resist and watercolour over
2 hour acrylic painting demonstration
Watercolour
2 hour painting demonstration in acrylics
Mixed media using oil pastel as resist and watercolour over
Burnished and scraffito worked oil pastel
Large pastel painting looking West from Devil’s Dyke, West Sussex.
4ft x 2ft acrylic painting. View from Chanctonbury Ring looking West.
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I love painting the sea. The ever changing play of texture and light is mesmeric. Many of these works are demonstration pieces but include some major studio paintings.
Soft pastel painting.
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Large acrylic 2 hour painting demonstration
Contemporary style acrylic painting using combing textures and saturated colours.
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Acrylic painting of the West Pier Brighton
Cotemporary painting using optical patterns to create movement inspired by the islands in the Indian Ocean.
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A1 size acrylic seascape featuring The Ark and Mount Ararat
Quick demonstration in acrylics
Quick demonstration painting in gouache on green pastel paper
Quick demonstration painting in oils
Demonstration of mixed media using pva glue and kitchen paper with dry brush paint effects over.
Demonstration of cling film over watercolour to create textures
Acrylic painting looking West from Ilfracombe, devon
Watercolour at sunset from Polzeath beach towards pentire Head
Oil painting inspired by “The Blue Planet”. Whales and Gannets.
Oil painting on canvas
Acrylic painting looking towards Pentire Head from Polzeath beach
A1 size acrylic painting featuring “Crown of Thorns” starfish on coral reef and whale shark over an oceanic abyss.
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Many of the portraits in this gallery are examples of approximately two hour “demonstration” works as well as studio pieces. For demonstrating purposes, my preferred style is to work with acrylics progressively illuminating flesh tones over a scumbled dark green background.
The life studies in this gallery have mostly been achieved in between teaching my students in class, spending five or ten minutes on my own piece after each round of one to one critique.
This gallery includes works in oil, acrylics and mixed media.
4ft x 2ft acrylic painting
Commission in acrylics of gaff rigged cutter “Marishka”
4ft x 2ft acrylic painting of “Little Ships” “Challenge” the tugboat ferrying rescued soldiers from Dunkirk
A1 size acrylic painting of “Challenge” the tugboat under restoration in Shoreham Harbour.
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A1 size oil painting of Vulcan bomber.
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Detail of Sea King helicopter featured in my painting of Shoreham Lifeboat
A1 size acrylic painting of the “Enola Gay” over Hiroshima.
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A1 size Oil Painting of an SR-71 at altitude.
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A1 acrylic painting of a Spitfire landing at Shoreham Airport in front of lancing college Chapel.
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A1 size acrylic painting.
Acrylic painting.
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A1 size oil painting.
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My BA (Hons) is in Fine Art Ceramics. I do not teach this subject but keep it for my own practice specializing in Raku. I love the primeval nature of working with clay and the lustrous nature of glazes as a painting medium.
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