Todays activities
Cartmel workshop with Artist Stephen Ormerod, 26th Jan 2022 Brief introduction of myself; I’ve worked as a professional artist now for over thirty years drawing inspiration from all kinds of subjects. My current passion is landscape painting using either Oil or Acrylic to capture light texture and movement from photographs I’ve taken on my many explorations into our countryside. For me the challenge in my painting is to capture each material, air, water or land so you feel the moment I took the photograph. Id like to think I portray this more fully through my depiction in paint than a photograph can ever convey and anyway isn’t that the mission of most artists. I started my career mainly drawing things, using coloured pencils and pastel. I still like to draw particularly in black and white, hence todays workshop. I’m standing in today for a very good friend of mine Jo McGrath and will be talking and demonstrating techniques using a variety...