Field Studies & Outdoor Plein Air Paintings
Although the majority of my larger oil paintings are painted at home in my art studio, I spent a good deal of time out in the Welsh countryside gathering reference material, making preparatory sketches and trying out ideas as smaller scale paintings or as drawings in my sketchbook, that I then work into finished pieces back home in my studio.
Painting Outdoors in Wales
Below are photographs from some of my recent plein air painting adventures. I enjoy the solitude of painting alone, usually the case when I'm gathering reference material. Sometimes I paint with friends, fellow artists or my students. It's all very casual and just about having fun painting outdoors, if you'd like to come painting with me get in touch.
Painting with friend and fellow artist Diane Mathias in Wales.
Pochade box painting in north Pembrokeshire.
Out with my watercolours, painting the estuary at Gwbert.
Painting from my car, a great way to paint in winter.
Painting with my pochade box in Pembrokeshire.
Painting a bridge over the river Aeron near Aberaeron.
Watercolour sketching at Pentre Ifan, Preseli mountains.
Painting in comfort in Pembrokehire.
Pochade box painting with friends at Cwm yr Eglwys.
Painting using my pochade box in Pembrokeshire national park.
Out painting the rugged Welsh coast with fellow artists.
Painting in the Preseli mountains, Pembrokeshire National Park.
I just use thinners, paint, brushes and liquin.
Hard at work in the summer sunshine.
Watercolour sketch of the rock formations at Ceibwr Bay.
My Winsor and Newton watercolour field set.
A short video taken when painting in the beautiful Preseli mountains of west Wales. I took the video after I'd finished my painting, but it will give you a idea of my set-up and how I go about working in the outdoors. The location is Dinas mountain, which above Newport in Pembrokeshire, and part of Pembrokeshire national park.
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