May 27, 2016

thrifty

Some little pinks (and greys)
Each piece 22 x 28cm on board

Posted in cold wax, colour, Donegal, Ireland, multiples / panoramas, nature, painting, photos, studio, wooden panels
Tagged abstract, Abstract art, Liz Doyle, sea, seapinks, thrift
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May 21, 2016

donegal clouds

Last piece of coarse jute off the roll
120cm x 190cm

May sky

Using a brush to block in the shapes

Maybe done

Footnote: I was given a fabulous book on #RichardDiebenkorn for my 60th birthday. I am enthralled by his famous shifts from abstraction to figuration and back again, and am particularly drawn to his paintings with human and animal forms ambiguously appearing within his landscapes.
The curvaceous shapes in these clouds seemed to appear initially by their own volition, but of course I then exaggerated them. Maybe also with Matisse in mind. And someone said maybe a nod to Magritte too! Haha! Good company 🙂

Posted in canvas, cold wax, colour, Donegal, Ireland, methods, nature, painting, studio
Tagged Abstract art, abstract expressionism, Diebenkorn, Liz Doyle, Matisse
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April 28, 2016

Ready to go

Hoping to get these 4 framed locally here in Wales. My fingers are firmly crossed that some or all of them will then be sent to Terre Verte gallery in Cornwall for ‘ Into the West’, the summer group show I have been invited to participate in there

‘Musing’ – 80cm sq

‘Spirited’ 100cm x 80cm

Skylight 1 – 50cm sq

Skylight 2 – 50cm sq

Posted in canvas, cold wax, colour, exhibitions, galleries, methods, multiples / panoramas, nature, painting, residencies, studio, Wales, wooden panels
Tagged Cornwall, Corris, Liz Doyle, Residency, stiwdio maelor, Terre Verte, Wales
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April 25, 2016

journey inward

These are the 4 stages of my most recent largish canvas
It is on coarse unstretched (and creased badly from being in my suitcase) jute canvas about 4′ x 3′

This was actually the second session, I forgot to take a photo of when it was all red and yellow, with a bit of turquoise, stapled to the floor on Saturday morning

Sunday, more sombre with shapes consolidating

Early Monday morning – loads of alizarin crimson overlaid on the lower half and a mess in the middle and a scatty unresolved indecisive upper third

Maybe we’re getting somewhere

Posted in canvas, cold wax, colour, methods, multiples / panoramas, nature, painting, residencies, studio, submissions, Wales
Tagged Corris, Liz Doyle, Residency, stiwdio maelor, Wales
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April 22, 2016

2 weeks to go

I will need the whole of the last week for the works to dry, wrap and arrange couriers or post
So starting my last few pieces now. The attic studio is looking very blue!