PA730 Fountains Abbey. Oil on canvas; 36 x 56 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter |
Saturday 10 December 2016
Sunday 4 December 2016
By the sea, Pencabe, Cornwall
Thursday 1 December 2016
Thursday 24 November 2016
Saturday 19 November 2016
The sea at Pencabe, Cornwall
Friday 18 November 2016
Friday 21 October 2016
Saturday 15 October 2016
Moorland landscape
PA712 High Ash Head Moor. Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter |
Wednesday 21 September 2016
Wednesday 14 September 2016
Monday 29 August 2016
Fields, High Ellington
Sunday 28 August 2016
After the harvest
Monday 22 August 2016
Trees in a cornfield
Thursday 16 June 2016
Drawing and talking with my friend Chris
DR134 Portrait of Chris. Charcoal on paper: 56 x 38 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter |
Wednesday 8 June 2016
Saturday 28 May 2016
In the fields
Painting outside is a different experience to the controlled set up of a studio, however it is that climate of things being partially beyond control and the possibility of bearing forth the surprising and stimulating, the unbidden as I think of it, which make working out in the landscape unique.
It is with that sense of risk which may result in something that moves my painting on that drives me to paint directly from the landscape.That risk could result in failure and frustration too but learning from the experience is certain.
The painting here is a small sketch painted on the plain that is the Vale of York. After a long search for something that I felt I could engage with I stopped on the outskirts of Boroughbridge and looking west I found a large open field of barley with another field of oilseed rape against the backdrop of the North Yorkshire moors. The skies relatively clear when beginning the painting quickly changed to something much more threatening necessitating speedy painting to get something of the sunlight on the foreground contrasting with the darkening background.
When painting here I was reminded of the late work of Vincent van Gogh; his paintings of "vast stretches of wheat under troubled skies", in particular the double square format canvas ' Wheat field under clouded sky'.The colour of the barley and rape I was looking at had a similarity with this work and I had this thought in mind whilst painting. Of course I can't compare my painting to Van Gogh's piece or have any idea of his experience whilst painting but I had a little sense of seeing something not so far removed from the landscape he painted.
It is with that sense of risk which may result in something that moves my painting on that drives me to paint directly from the landscape.That risk could result in failure and frustration too but learning from the experience is certain.
The painting here is a small sketch painted on the plain that is the Vale of York. After a long search for something that I felt I could engage with I stopped on the outskirts of Boroughbridge and looking west I found a large open field of barley with another field of oilseed rape against the backdrop of the North Yorkshire moors. The skies relatively clear when beginning the painting quickly changed to something much more threatening necessitating speedy painting to get something of the sunlight on the foreground contrasting with the darkening background.
When painting here I was reminded of the late work of Vincent van Gogh; his paintings of "vast stretches of wheat under troubled skies", in particular the double square format canvas ' Wheat field under clouded sky'.The colour of the barley and rape I was looking at had a similarity with this work and I had this thought in mind whilst painting. Of course I can't compare my painting to Van Gogh's piece or have any idea of his experience whilst painting but I had a little sense of seeing something not so far removed from the landscape he painted.
PA684 Troubled sky over Rape field. Oil on canvas: 25 x 41 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter |
Wednesday 25 May 2016
Friday 20 May 2016
Sunday 8 May 2016
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