January Newletter

Gareth Buxton - Artist's Newsletter
January 2009

What a cold start to the new year! I visited Harpur Hill near Buxton last weekend. Over night there had been freezing fog and everything above a certain height had been covered with the most beautiful white frost. Took a few pictures on a mobile phone camera, so quite grainy, hope it captures the moment, if not the freezing cold temperature :-) For more pictures click on the one below or click this link




Discovering Colour
Most of my output in the past has used a distinctive pallette limited to a narrow range of colours, much of this is deliberate as the colours match those of moorland and surround areas. I have recently been experimenting with some bold colours as the pictures below illustrate. To be honest I was quite taken aback when I had finished them. They seemed so bright, for me at least! I'd be really interested to hear your views, is too much colour too soon, or do you like this more saturated trend?



Moorland Twilight #2: (8x8 inch) - Acrylic on Canvas



Moorland Twilight #1: (8x8 inch) - Acrylic on Canvas

Storm View : (30x30 inch) - Acrylic on Canvas


Forthcoming Exhibitions 2009
The calendar is already filling up with exhibitions for the coming year, here are the ones so far.

17th April - May 24th: "4 seasons in one day" - Masham Gallery, Yorkshire
23 - 25th May 2009: Derbyshire Open Arts - Little Gallery Belper
14 - 28th June: Solo Exhibition - Ingleby Gallery, Ingleby

New Work for 2009
I've been quite busy already this year, to see my latest paintings checkout this gallery
or here http://www.minigallery.co.uk/Gareth_Buxton/newart/

Regards
Gareth

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Frost in the Peak District

Visited Harpur Hill near Buxton last weekend. Over night there had been freezing fog and everything above a certain height had been covered with the most beautiful white frost. Took a few pictures on a mobile phone camera, so quite grainy, hope it captures the moment, if not the freezing cold temperature :-)

From Harpur Hill

From Harpur Hill

From Harpur Hill

From Harpur Hill

Four Score Years and Ten

Four Score Years and Ten is one of my more personal paintings, taking several weeks to develop with multiple layers - it expresses personal beliefs about mortality, religion and being human.  As with other paintings and sculptures in this series its purpose is to remind myself and hopefully others,  to cease the moment and make the most of relatively short time that we experience consciousness as a bi-product of our biological function.

Main View

Detail 

Detail

Moonlight Painting on Saatchi - Please vote!

Please vote for me on the Saatchi web site, click on the link below
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=190249

Paintings with Colour!

Well ok they all have colour in, but these ones are a bit brighter than normal. I find using colour in this saturated quite scary. I'm reading about NLP at the moment and the use of saturated colour or black and white images is a way of intensifying or reducing a mental image and assocaited emotion. What does that say about me eh? Thats enough of the psychology!

Enjoy.

They are available through minigallery as usual sometime on 5th January


Moorland Twilight #2: (8x8 inch) - Acrylic on Canvas


Moorland Twilight #1: (8x8 inch) - Acrylic on Canvas


Derbyshire Moor #4: (8x8 inch) - Acrylic on Canvas