Painting 'Folkestone Bay'

painting 'Folkestone Bay', Kent, UK  - acrylics on canvas

size 40 x 40 cm

year 2013

     

 

  

Last summer in UK was splendid, well at least in Kent and in the south east coast of England. 

The painting above was the result of spending a day in Folkestone with a fellow friend artist, snapping photos for possible painting. Particularly I was seduced by the sight of fishing boats and seagulls as if they were constantly and gently dancing to the rhythm of the sea breeze. Finally the colors and the scent of the sea and the layers of other discernible marine scents bestowed in me the urge to draw and paint all those impression and the immediate contact with the scene: Folkestone bay.

The painting is now in Poland in Lasocice! It was a birthday gift to a friend Arek and the last photo, bottom right is me at his place; the last time I was holding my finished painting. 

Painting 'White Cliffs'

painting 'White Cliffs'  landscape between Folkestone and Dover in Kent, UK  - acrylics on canvas

size 40 x 40 cm

year 2013

 

"White Cliffs" somewhere between Folkestone to Dover on a trekking day with my partner. Often is very hard and positively unpractical to just stop, set up your easel and paint what is in front of you, just because how can't help himself not to freeze a beautiful and exhilarating landscape. The camera come in, and pocket side sketchbook too, your imagination, how one translate first hand impression on a scene to a vast inward landscape; perhaps the scope is endless and  vision within is the only limitation.
In "White Cliffs" I tried to fulfill all those premises I wanted to convey, in a narrative context, in order to synthesize in one single picture a day in the life of a couple in contact with nature.
I set myself right in the middle of the dividing line between the left bending path and engulfing blue- violet sea waves around my self portrait. My partner is the all too willing trip planner, the organizer and the ideal companion for field nature nature exclusions. In "White Cliffs" she invite the viewer to share our experience and excitement of trekking, exploring and discovery along a  rolling path between Folkestone and Dover.
"White Cliffs" was a gift for Marzena's parents. They now own already three of my painting and a couple of drawings.