The ‘Odd couple‘ was on show at the art@one Autumn exhibition ‘Conversations in colour’ at the Lodge in Hemingford House.
The exhibition was an eclectic mix of artworks in sculpture, wood carving & ceramics, mixed media, watercolour, acrylic & oil paintings on canvas, boards and paper. It’s a beautiful occasional gallery space and the curators Maria & Hilary manage to make it feel special every time, with exhibits spilling out into the gardens around.
I’m happy to say that it was my second time there too!
The ‘Odd couple‘ has been a lot of fun on Instagram and TikTok because I was able to include the music soundtrack from the film – ‘The Odd Couple’ by Neal Hefti.
Picture below shows me and my mum with the ‘Odd couple’ behind us.
The ‘Devour‘ series are faux landscapes (good enough to eat!), expressive pieces that evoke stormy, elemental landscapes, where smoky greys meet intense colours. ‘Fervour‘ is probably my favourite and has proved most popular for prints (followed by ‘Savour’), and did win first prize in the village show!
Immerse your space in emotion and energy with “Fervour” “Savour“, “Candour” and “Ardour’ — the devour series of paintings are now striking fine art giclée prints of my original acrylic paintings (available if you’d prefer the original painting). These expressive pieces evoke a stormy, elemental landscape, where smoky greys meet intense, fiery orange, calm blues, yellow or pink golden hour skies. They’re moody, modern, and alive with layered texture and feeling.
Professionally printed on luxurious Hahnemühle German Etching paper, the rich matte finish enhances the depth and painterly quality of the original. You may even notice hints of canvas weave, echoing the physicality of the brushwork and scratched-in textures beneath the surface. There is also the possibility of the odd hair from me or the dog ;D
️ Details:
- Available in 3 sizes
- Printed to archival standard by The Print Space
- Limited edition: Large size print run of 100 only
- Colours may vary slightly due to the natural absorbency of the heavyweight paper
- These are some of my most personal and favourite works (hence just releasing the Giclees!) — each a bold centrepiece for contemporary interiors.
Horizons acrylic paintings are always about the juxtaposition of colours. How they look together and what happens when they meet, and what happens when the canvas is left bare.
I’ve called them ‘Horizon’ because they are a bit like a landscape – where sky and land or sea meet, they aren’t real landscapes, but they influenced by real skies, especially sunsets and how there are a myriad of colours to be found in them. Skies are an endless fascination to me as they are rarely the same, there are a year of skies in the #treetwoproject.
I work on these at different sizes depending on my mood. And some are a vehicle for specific colour experiments, for instance Horizons 12, 13 and 14 all investigate how a grey made from the signature colour (i.e. orange) plus black and white looks so different when it meets and is laid over the signature colour, as does the black in the bottom section.
Horizons – a series of acrylic paintings on various size canvas boards and paper playing with colour.
Horizons is a theme I keep coming back to.
What does falling feel like – can I create a painting that gives you the sensation of falling. Does falling start to feel like rising? Does colour change the feeling? This was the thinking behind this series of paintings.
I started with a block, oblong, like a brick. In the series they are placed in roughly the same position on the canvas and at about the same size but at slightly different angles and with the paint moved differently around each one.
The first in this series of ‘Falling’ I was also playing with grey on orange and how the grey changed to a lilac hue when skimmed over orange – something that I noticed in Horizon 13. This is the most worked of the series. I continued to use the same structure, oblong mid right at an angle, but now using a single colour palette – each different colour bringing a different mood and urgency.
All the series of acrylic paintings are at first painted in a single session to bring the energy, and then refined further after the paint has dried.
A series of acrylic paintings on 20 x 16 inch canvas board on the theme of falling.
