The Pittenweem Arts Festival 2022 starts on Saturday 6th August and runs until Saturday 13th August. My web site has a page showing some of the paintings I will be exhibiting. See my Pittenweem Arts Festival 2022 page.
Wishing you and your loved ones a lovely Christmas.
This year the winter open studio event is a joint one with all the artists and craft makers at Bowhouse, St. Monans. It takes place on the weekend of 6th and 7th November 2021.
I did this painting on a blue sennelier pastel card using a limited palette which suited the Scottish landscape. I had made a monotone study before hand and used this as refrence for the tones I wanted for the scene.
I am taking part in the East Neuk Open Studios 2021 and will be exhibiting in my Studio at 18 West Shore, Pittenweem.
The studio will be open from 10:30 to 16:30 over the weekend of 26th – 27th June.
The official website has more details: www.eastneukopenstudios.org/artists/gina-wright/
This farm shop punnet of strawberries looked so wonderful I just had to do a ink and watermedia sketch. I have my sketch book which has a nice midtone colour which helps speed up the process. White was done with a pitt artist brush pen. A nice treat to eat them after the sketch was finished.
Eduardo Alessandro Studios are celebrating their gallery reopening on Monday 26th April with a mixed show.
Spring Into Summer runs from 26th April 2021 to 26th June 2021
The farewell sendoff to the Mary Quant exhibition at the V&A in Dundee includes an article about one of my paintings on their website. This was a great exhibition, the next stop after Dundee is Australia.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/articles/making-va-dundee-a-farewell-to-mary-quant
Wishing you and your loved ones a lovely Christmas.
The painting was inspired after a walk in the countryside. The little wren darted in and out of the snow covered grasses. I was cold standing watching the wren and I wondered how it didn’t feel the cold like I did.
I thought I would post yesterdays work in the studio. I like to do a study before considering any larger work. Sometimes that study could be just in monotone however I wanted to test colours out on my favourite orange Mi-Teintes pastel paper. Here is a photo of my sunset study with a tray of pastels I selected for this painting. A swatch of paper I used for testing the pastels. The grey colours you see in the bottom right corner of the tray are so important to the work and desirable to have in any pastel collection. I use either a pastel pencil or charcoal for drawing a loose sketch to begin with as this can easily be corrected without damaging the paper. Now I am inspired and ready to start the larger painting.