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

Colourful Moorland

Spontaneous and colourful new landscape

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)

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

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

New Paintings

Moorland (09142) 20x20cm

Moorland (09137) 20x20cm

Moorland (09127) 20x20cm

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

Midland Open Exhibition at the Tarpey Gallery - I'm in it

Good news I submitted three paintings to the Tarpey Gallary (in Castle Donington) for the
Midland Open Exhibition and they were all accepted

The exhibition runs 12th December 2009 - 16th January 2010
More details at http://tarpeygallery.com/index.php/art/current/

New Paintings - September 2009

Moorland Mist Over Water (near Kinder) 20x16inches £415 including postage


Tywyn Storm 24x12 inches - £315 inc postage


Mist Near Curbar 20x20 £445 inc postage

After quite a rest over the summer I have started painting in earnest again. Below are two moorland landscapes and a seascape. I will be entering Derby Open again this year with a sculpture, a an abstract painitng and a seascape. I will put them up on the blog later in the week.

New Paintings: Seascape and Moorland

Incoming Storm (18" x 14")(detail)


Incoming Storm (18" x 14")


Mountain Mist (20"x8")

Dramatic paintings for upcoming exhibitions

Aproaching Storm Near Tywyn


Gothic Storm #3


Curbar Summer


Tree Mist

Gareth Buxton - Artist Newsletter - April 2009

Gareth Buxton - Artist Newsletter 
April 2009

Stormy Weather

I really enjoy this time of year.  There is enough light now for some breathtaking cloud patterns but also stormy skies and fast moving winds to keep the landscape constantly changing. Managed to capture this wonderful moment the other day as a storm passed over Allestree/Kedleston area late afternoon.  This pattern of clouds didn't last long and I waited until the sun came through before snapping this one. The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called this the "decisive moment"

Don't forget - Masham Gallery Exhibition - Four Seasons in One Day 
Next exhibition - April 17th - May 24th 2009. 
Masham Gallery website at http://www.mashamgallery.co.uk/index.html . 

Website Update

I have updated my web site at http://garbleart.co.uk/

I decided on a simple clean one page approach which should load up quickly.  The new page has all the essential info and a grid with previews of nine of my paintings, clicking on this leads through to Minigallery for more information

Mad March Painting!

March has been a busy month as I am madly producing many paintings in anticipation of selecting the best for upcoming shows.  Below are a few samples of what I am working on.

Stanage Edge

Moorland Vista #15

Mist Over Carsington #2

Twilight Near Buxton

Mist over Carsington

Doodles

Doodling has always been a compulsive habit for me.  This year I decided to do a doodle a day, here's 3rd March!

Tweets from March

As you know I am a Tweeter and my Twitter my ID is garbleart (http://twitter.com/garbleart)

Here is a selection of tweets from March

• Reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. On page 22 - only another 898 pages go!
  
• Finishing two fleshy sculptures whilst listening to st germain. Not the legendary immortal occult figure but the house/nu jazz musician;-)
  
• Listening to 'Black Celebration', Depeche Mode. Love the sinster noises @ start of title track. Superb album even after all these years.
  
• Today is Ada Lovelace day. She was the world's first programmer. She didn't drink Jolt cola or keep a selection of pens in her top pocket
  
• In the studio painting. Listening to 'telepopmusic - angel milk' . Window open spring air. Lovely.
  
• Trilogy Meter by Dan Meth. Graphical comparison of movies and their sequels. Certainly agree with the Matrix one.http://tinyurl.com/bnn8gy
  
• Joke: 'three fonts go into bar, the barman says sorry we don't serve your type here' ;-)
  
• Chilli. Red wine. Bread and butter pudding. Zombie massacre via house of the dead. Got to stay awake!!
  

Regards

Gareth

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Upcoming Exhibitions Paintings - Preview of Derbyshire Landscapes

I am currently preparing for two upcoming exhibitions, below are some of paintings that will be featured.

23 - 25th May 2009: Derbyshire Open Arts - Little Gallery Belper
14 - 28th June: Solo Exhibition - Ingleby Gallery, Ingleby


Twilight Near Buxton


Mist Over Carsington


Mist Over Carsington #2


Moorland Vista #15


Stanage Edge

Peak District - Landscape Paintings

Thought you might like to see what I'm upto at the moment. I recently completed the the following paintings and they will be available end of May through Derbyshire Open Arts. Painted these in a confident mood with big bold strokes and resisted the temptation to overwork them, always a temptation.