August Newsletter

Welcome to the August newsletter. This month we explore the theme of holidays with some beautiful work from selected gallery artists. 

Paula Boardman ‘A Day at Cawsand Bay’ 

Paula Boardman

Full of fun holiday vibes and sunshine Paula’s painting captures the joy of spending time at the beach recording the many activities that tourist’s enjoy.  

Paula works in both oil or acrylic when painting her landscapes.  New work focuses on townscapes in a quirky style painted in watercolour with ink. She seeks to capture the spirit of a place rather than just detail.  She loves the British coastline, the sea and beaches and the ever-changing British weather. 

Belinda Reynell ‘Breathing Space’

Belinda Reynell

‘I am transfixed by this view of trees, looking up through the branches. A semi-abstract painting, this piece evokes the freedom of the forest and pleasure of being there with the splash of pink’. 

Belinda is an award-winning contemporary landscape artist from Devon.  She works in both oils and acrylics to create striking and distinctive artworks full of colour and texture

Martin J Leighton’s ‘Surfers’ Paradise’

Martin J Leighton’s ‘Surfers Paradise’ J Leighton

Martin is passionate about figurative subjects, these are often combined with seascapes.  Martin loves to paint in oil and is entirely self-taught. 

Ma”rtin enjoys living in Dorset, whose south coast that provides brilliant opportunities for studying nature and the changes in light.  

‘’The challenge for me is to create evocative and thought provoking paintings striving to achieve realistic, yet not photographic images.  Achieving skin tones is very challenging but I resultfind myself totally engrossed in my painting until I am satisfied with the end result.

Marian Young ‘A Ripple on the Lake’

Marian Young

Marian’s semi abstract works are breath-taking in their simplicity and balance. Her colour choice is dictated by her intuitive choice for the day. Marian works without preliminary sketches preferring no pre-conceived ideas of the outcome.

Instead she lays ‘down colours of [her] choice that day and allow the flow and direction of paint to intuitively lead…to that ‘Sense of Place’ that I am subconsciously driven to.

I know the work is finished, when I feel I have achieved a sense of unity, balance and cohesion” – Marian Young