Derbyshire Landscapes Show - Starts 16th April

On Saturday 16th April the Derbyshire Landscape Show starts at Gallery top in Rowsley Derbyshire. The exhibition will feature the paintings of six Derbyshire based landscape artists, including me!

Two of the the painters in this group exhibition are Colin Halliday and Kristan Baggaley. I have been a fan of their work since I started painting. Its been a lot of hard work over the past 6 years (when I started) but I am really pleased to have my efforts recognised and to be sharing equal billing with two artists who I admire.

For more details see

http://www.gallerytop.co.uk/contact/contact.htm

A selection, all but one of the paintings I will be showing are below.

Rain storm Derbyshire Moorland (8x88 inch)

Western Edge of kinder - Storm #2 (20x20 inch)

Western Edge of Kinder - Storm #1 (24x24 inch)

Mood Indigo (8x8 inch)

Curbar Early Morning

To see some of the other artists work have a look at the GalleryTop Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/galleryview

January photo and Paintings

Misty Carsington Water January 2011. The effect of some areas being in focus and others not is created by simply blowing on the lens before taking the photo.

Raindrops on car window. Misty day near Carsington, Derbyshire

Indigo Moorland (50x50cm - Acrylic on canvas)

Immortal Nature #2 20x20 cm

Immoertal Nature (2011) (50 x 50 cm Acrylic on Canvas)

Currently reserved for Saatchi Competition

This kind of day,,,,

Can't remember what happened but I had a day like this...

Colourful Moorland

Spontaneous and colourful new landscape

Castle in the Storm - Painting

Castle in the Storm
Available at http://www.minigallery.co.uk/Gareth_Buxton/art51659/

Details below

TITLE:	Castle in the Storm
ARTIST:	Gareth Buxton
MEDIA:	Acrylic
DATE:	November 2010
SIZE:	1220x760 mm / 48.03x29.92 inches
FORMAT:	deep edge box canvas
FRAMING:	framing not necessary
PRICE:	£800.00 GBP
DELIVERY	UK Mainland - Parcelforce 48: 30.00 GBP

Lights on a dashboard

The can be something very beautiful about the "mundane". Even in an urban setting there is more beauty as a picturesque vista, its just a question of finding it. A few weeks back I took these photos as I was getting out of my car. The first is just street light in the rain through windscreen wipers, I love the painterly smearing and distortion of the lights.. The second almost looks like lepoard-skin but is the pattern caused by the light shining through a windscreen covered in raindrops.


Lights through windscreen. The car was parked!


Sodium street light reflected off dashboard of car

Life through the bottle

No I haven't turned to drink just yet. But I was fascinated when I picked up a washing liquid bottle and realised that it might have some strange effects. I'd like to point out that I didn't try and drink it :-) I used the washing liquid in motion as a camera filter, holding my camera up against the body of the bottle. Focussing was thrown out for most of the image but I really enjoyed the effects that it produced. Maybe if you drink enough Absinthe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe) this is what you see?

Derwent Gallery Exhibition - Starts 4th September 2010

I'm really pleased to announce that my next (solo) exhibition starts at Derwent Gallery in Grindleford on Saturday 4th September for 4 weeks. The landscape exhibition will feature all new work produced this year including some very recent paintings - painted in the last week or two!

Derwent Gallery is a great gallery in the Peak District situated near Cubar and Stanages "edges". Full details of the gallery and details on location and opening hours at http://www.derwentgallery.com/

Below is a preview of some of the paintings that are likely to make it to the final exhibition.

Lost on the Moor (20x20cm)

Mid Storm (60x60cm)

Moorland Mist (60x60cm)

Approaching Storm (60x60cm)

Alone on a Hill (60x60cm)

Henry Miller on Artists

I found this wonderful Henry Miller quote on the TV series "Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. I think its particularly relevant to artists;

"My argument with so much as psychoanalysis is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to cure ourselves of it constantly and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call “happiness.” There’s too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It’s part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad."
Henry Miller 1960s

Most of the Adam Curtis documentaries are on youtube and are well worth a look.

Minigallery Portfolio Update

I recently completedly updated my Minigallery portfolio, clearing out over 20 paintings, many of which are now being either reworked or having their canvases primed, ready to become new paintings!

Here is a painting in the gallery called "Kinder Just After Dawn" its available here




To see all of the newly updated online gallery at Minigallery please visit http://www.minigallery.co.uk/Gareth_Buxton/

Moon Moor and Sea: 22nd May 2010

Saturday 22nd May was the opening of my exhibition at the Tarpey Gallery. It was lovely sunny evening but despite the fine weather we had plenty of visitors. I was particularly pleased to see some new faces amongst the crowd.



As you can see the Tarpey Gallery is wonderful light airy space with large walls that really bring out the best in the paintings. I'd like to thank everybody that attended.



Some of the paintings are still available so do let me know if you are still interested in seeing any of the paintings that might be left.

Tywyn by the Sea

Tywyn - late afternoon

I took this picture at a relaxing break last month at Tywyn. Tywyn is in mid wales north of Aberyswyth and south of Barmouth. A pleasant seaside town with enough shops to survive comfortably but not too spoiled with touristy attractions. At the moment the sea front looks like a construction site, as it quite literally is. They are currently reinforcing the sea defenses, they have even created a mini island out at sea as part of this. For some reason this part of the world gets the most astounding sunsets. Sunsets whilst wonderful "live" are a bit "chocolate boxy" for me when it comes to photos and paintings. But I have included a photo any way below.


Tywyn - very late afternoon!

Devening Telegraph feature about me

Last week Derby Evening Telegraph did an article about me and my paintings here http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Crash-turned-Gareth-keyboards-canvas-paintbrushes/article-2127732-detail/article.html .

Descent through rain

I took this picture* (as a passenger not driver ;-) a couple of years ago. We were driving down the hill that leads into the the small town of Aberdovey (Aberdyfi). it was dusk and raining very hard, visibility was poor and its quite a narrow, coastal road. I think this photo captures the motion and darkness of the road.

*Taken with a mobile phone, a mobile phone is better than any high-end camera as you are more likely to have it to hand. What is better a low-resolution photo or none at all?

Moon Moor and Sea: Preview

Kinder Mist


Winter Storm


Height of the Storm


Sun through clouds

Four of the 40 or so paintings featuring in my upcoming solo show at the Tarpey Gallery.

Exhibition Announcement: Moon Moor and Sea

My solo show is coming up Tarpey Gallery Castle Donington. Its a significant exhibition for me as I will be showing over 40 paintings.

Full details at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=268066814481&index=1

Preview photos of some paintings to follow

Icy Lake - Markeaton Park - Derby

Towards the end of february we had a surprise day of snow. We visited the local park to get probably the last chance to enjoy snow, this end of the year. Ice had formed on the boating lake and I captured a number of reflections with my camera. This was the best one.

The pressure as an exhibition approaches

This month I have been hard at work trying to produce some good paintings for the exhibition in May. As an exhibition deadline gets nearer I tend to go into overdrive producing many paintings to select from. For every painting I am happy with there are at least a couple along the way that get painted over or reworked to the extent that there is nothing left of the original.

Work in progress 20x20 cm

Work in progress 20x20cm

The sea will be there long after we are gone.

The cold dark sea at night. I like to watch the sea at night particularly if its stormy. I like to see the sea wrecking the coastline, breaking street-lights with sharp stones. The sea will be there long after we are gone.


Detail

Faces - Doodle

As ever, experimenting with pen and ink. Pleased with the arrangement of the faces on this one.

New Paintings

Moorland (09142) 20x20cm

Moorland (09137) 20x20cm

Moorland (09127) 20x20cm

New Paintings this month. All the following are 20x20cm priced at £95.

Landscape wallpapers for Blackberry Bold

I thought I'd convert a few of my paintings for use as wallpaper on a Blackberry. These are designed to fit 480x360 pixel screens (Blackberry 9700/ Bold 2 in the US). If you want any for different phone types let me know and I will see what i can do. Feel free to redistribute, please mention my name/web-site if you do.

To use them right click and do "Save Image As"


Moonlight Storm Tywyn (2009)


Tywyn (2009)


Storm (2009)


Storm Tywyn (2009)


Tywyn (2009)