Winter landscape

PA840 Stable yard in Winter. Oil on board 31 x 36cm Neil Bolton fine art painter

Field in Winter

PA839 Field, Winter. Oil on board 31 x 41cm Neil Bolton fine art painter

A lane in Autumn

PA834  Autumn along the lane. Oil on canvas; 46 x 61cm Neil Bolton fine art painter

Girl and her dog

PA829 Girl and her dog. Oil on canvas;31 x 23cm Neil Bolton fine art painter

The jetty

PA828 Jetty, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire. Oil on board; 26 x 41cm Neil Bolton fine art painter

Sky over the moors

PA816 Moorland sky. Oil on board; 13 x 26cm Neil Bolton fine art painter

Dales Landscape

PA808 Dales landscape2 Oil on canvas 31 x 46cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Return to a landscape I paint often on a day when a blue grey colour predominated in the pastures and trees. The telegraph poles remind us of the strong winds that are usually making their presence felt!

Landscape with cornfields

PA807  Landscape, High Ellington. Oil on board 20 x 26cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Fields in July

PA799 Fields near Ellingstring, North Yorkshire. Oil on canvas 20 x 33cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Study of a barley field

PA794 Barley field. Oil on board 20 x 25cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

In the fields

PA786 Fields, High Ellington, North Yorkshire. Oil on board 31 x 51cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Landscape in the North Yorkshire Dales

PA777 Dales Landscape. Oil on board 25 x 31cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Winter reprise

PA775 Winter reprise . Oil on board 31 x 36cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

A day of cold, changeable weather much more typical of Winter rather than Spring. The painting went through many changes too, the final state being a composite record of cloud movement and fleeting light, something that had some truth to my overall impression of the time painting.

Spring fields

PA771 Spring fields. Oil on board 31 x 36cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Painted in the North Yorkshire landscape, some vast fields sown with wheat. I had to discern different hues of green and use the diagonal tractor lines to portray the receding plane of the land.

Coffee

PA770 Coffee still life. Oil on board 36 x 31cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Self portrait

PA768 Self portrait 2017. Oil on board 36 x 31cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Spring landscape

PA769 Spring, High Burton, North Yorkshire. Oil on board 23 x 30cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter SOLD

Wheat fields showing young growth, the landscape is predominantly green at this time of year. In this painting I have tried to achieve a harmony and portray the variations in the green hues. This painting was exhibited in the Harrogate Open exhibition at the Mercer Gallery where it was sold.

Fires on moorland

PA767 Fires on the moor. Oil on canvas board 21 x 34cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

The burning of heather on the moorlands near where I live. This is a contentious issue but for me the interest is in the visual drama of the smoke pillars which in a painting can have many connotations. Painted outside where the direct experience of reality/nature is stimulating and potent for painting.

Frankie

PA764 Frankie the Podenco. Oil on canvas 41 x 51cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

The sky's pageant

PA719 Moorland sky, Lofthouse Moor. Oil on canvas 61 x 85cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Spring Folly

PA761 Spring, How Hill Folly. Oil on canvas 51 x 41cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Moorland in Spring, North Yorkshire.

PA762 Moorland landscape. Oil on canvas: 36 x 56cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Southern landscape

PA756 Spanish Landscape. Oil on paper 30 x 40 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

La Tormenta [The Storm]

PA755 La Tormenta. Oil on paper 30 x 40 cm  Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Study for La Tormenta [The Storm]

DR140 Study for La Tormenta [The Storm] Charcoal on paper 38 x 56 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Working in a strong wind I find exhilarating even if the easel has to be weighed or tied down.

Olive tree on a hillside

DR139 Olive tree. Charcoal on paper 38 x 56 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Plein air drawing of an Olive tree on a hillside in Andalusia. This particular mountainous region can be surprisingly windy making drawing board and easel unstable unlike my subject which has endured many years of elemental forces. More work from this series can be seen on my website
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 and recent pages on flickr.
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Early Spring, Andalusia.

PA751 Early Spring Andalusia. Oil on paper 30 x 40 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Painted on location in Spain, you will have to imagine the heavily scented air and the massed choir of attendant bees.

Almond trees in blossom, Spain

PA750 Almond trees, Andalusia. Oil on board 25 x 36 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

City in the mountains 1

PA742 City in the mountains 1. Oil on paper 30 x 40 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Sierra Maroma, Andalusia, Spain

PA741 Maroma, Invierno. Oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Painted in rough changeable weather, the easel and canvas blown to the ground on a few occasions by powerful gusts of mountain wind that happen without warning and surprise with their ferocity. This range of mountains are close to my sister's house and form an impressive backdrop to the lower surrounding foothills

Olive trees, Spain

PA739 Olive trees, Spain. Oil on paper 38 x 56 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Painted on location during my recent painting trip to Andalusia, Spain. Olive trees for me are a fascinating and absorbing subject to paint, the foliage presents an enigmatic range of colours in the strong Southern sunlight of Spain; warm blue greens to steely greys contrasting at times with strong shadows. This group of trees are at the end of my sister's garden in rural Andalusia and are tended by farmers who I have seen ploughing the ground beneath the trees using mules to draw the plough- a timeless sight.

Landscape in Andalusia, Spain

PA736  Landscape with Olive trees. Oil on paper 38 x 56 cm Neil Bolton Fine Art Painter

Painted on location in Spain, I am reminded of Soutine's paintings in the French Pyrenees when I paint here, white painted buildings clinging onto hillsides swathed in twisted tree forms. The calligraphic shapes of the Olive trunks here are natural.