Abstract Salar Flats 02 – Boliva
If you ever wondered what it feels like to walk on the clouds then you should visit the Salar de Uyuni. Located in the southwest corner of Bolivia, the Salar is a blindingly white salt flat, which stretches for more than 4,500 square miles. The landscape is bright, endless and surreal and this is my abstract interpretation of it – Abstract Salar Salt Flats 02.
Silver Birch Trees at Night – Sweden
I live next to Västra Järvafältet, a nature reserve located to north of Stockholm. Like many of the forests of Sweden, the forest is a boreal (or taiga) forest and is dominated by species of evergreen conifers spruce, fir and pine, the deciduous conifer larch, and species of birch and aspen.
There are lit paths through the forest so you can walk, jog or cycle when it is dark, whatever the time, whatever the weather. When I take my dog for a walk on the very dark winter mornings and evenings, sometimes I go through the forest. As I look through the thick forest, the dark evergreens blend into the night sky and the Silver Birch trees stand out. I love the contrast between the midnight blue sky and the bright silvery white tree trunks.
Here is my painting of the Silver Birch trees in the forest at night.
Snow Falling Soundlessly – Sweden
One night in late March there was an unexpected fall of snow. It came heavily and suddenly. As the of snow fell late into the night, I walked into the woods next to my house and did some sketches of the snowflakes falling against the dark midnight blue sky. Snow falling soundlessly captures the moment. One night in late March there was an unexpected fall of snow. It came heavily and suddenly. As the of snow fell late into the night, I walked into the woods next to my house and did some sketches of the snowflakes falling against the dark midnight blue sky. Snow falling soundlessly captures the moment.
Endless Abstract Serengeti 01
Serengeti comes from the Maasai Mara word Serengit and means endless plain. This vast area of grassland spans northern Tanzania and southern Kenya and covers approximately 12,000 sq miles. As I travelled through these immense plains, which are covered in swaying grasses and dotted with acacia trees, I experienced an almost hypnotic sensation and my eyes and mind simultaneously lingered and drifted as the landscape blurred before me. This is feeling that I have tried to achieve in this painting.
Abstract Salar Salt Flats 01
If you ever wondered what it feels like to walk on the clouds then you should visit the Salar de Uyuni. Located in the southwest corner of Bolivia, the Salar is a blindingly white salt flat, which stretches for more than 4,500 square miles. The landscape is punctuated by towering dormant volcanoes and is bright, endless and surreal. This is my abstract interpretation of it.
Chromatic Sand Dunes – Morocco
The vastness of deserts has always bewitched me. Deserts are the places on earth which appear to be frozen in time, with only the invisible wind to move the sand. The colours, rock formations and simple patterns are always different, yet the emptiness is the same. This is my depiction of the shifting sand dunes Sahara in Southern Morocco.
A field of rapeseed – Sweden
In late Spring fields of rapeseed cover the landscape in blankets of bright yellow. When I was a child in south-east England, I remember the vividness of the yellow flowers. Now I live in Sweden and on a sunny day when the rapeseed is in bloom, I think the yellow cadmium flowers against the cobalt blue sky look like exactly like the colours of the the Swedish flag.
Pink blossom against blue sky – Sweden
For just a few days every Spring the trees in Kungsträgården, Stockholm, are alive with bright pink cherry blossom. This explosion of pale pink petals is a euphoric sight to behold. Also known as sakura in Japan, the flower represents a time of renewal, and the fleeting nature of life.
Pink Hibiscus Detail
The hibiscus is one of the brightest and most vibrant flowers – and when I moved to Mwanza in Tanzania, I was delighted to find that there were scores of them growing wild in my garden. This is a painting of a pink hibiscus.
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