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