Just recently I had a painting on display at the annual Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition in London. It was this painting of Gannets over Bass Rock. It worked out well I feel and involved a lot of thinking about the composition before I really got started. There's a lot of energy and movement going on and a lot to convey to the viewer. Putting the handrail in at the end was a scary moment but it really worked.
Just discovered your blog via Penny Clarke's Wryneck post of this week.
ReplyDeleteYour picture is well worthy of the SWLA in my opinion...
your own comments sum it up....
you can almost smell the guano!
As I type, I am surrounded by pictures and sculptures that we've bought at the Mall Galleries SWLA exhibition...
including quite a few by my old friend Bruce Pearson.
Unfortunately, now we live in France...
near the Brenne....
we no longer go!!
It was always difficult getting there from Leeds...
let alone rural France.
Expect more comments...
what I've seen scrolling down thus far is very nice stuff...
I look more when I have some spare time.
Many thanks indeed Tim for your comments! Apologies for taking an eternity to reply! I have just been updating the blog so it seemed a good time. I'm pleased you like the pictures, it is very hard to get recognition and it's easy to be self-critical. One just has to keep going and to do more. As it happens I have just submitted six paintings again this year, but I expect most will get rejected as is usually the case. It is very difficult trying to second guess how they think.
ReplyDeleteYes, Bruce Pearson is a master at creating atmospheric images that combine landscape and bird details, and he is also very fast too, a human dynamo! Hope you can make the galleries again some day? Many thanks again, Richard.