Darfield Fields
Yorkshire Landscape Acrylic Painting
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Darfield Fields enlarge |
Acrylic on Board 2001
8 x 6 ins
private collection
A moody landscape painting of storm clouds gathering
over the fields close to where I live in Darfield, South Yorkshire.
The scratchy texture is produced by dragging the paint over
a roughly painted white ground using a coarse hog's hair brush.
There is a vaguely delineated path leading from the foreground
up over the hill to an unseen destination - a compositional device
borrowed from the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, one
of my favourite painters.
The sky is painted with Paynes' Grey mixed with white and
the foreground is Olive Green with touches of Burnt Umber and
Raw Sienna. Stands of trees at the top of the hill are merely
hinted at.
A signed card of this painting is available click here
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