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

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?

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.

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

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)

Sunrise Through Condensation

Sometimes its the little things that catch your eye. Couldn't help noticing the beauty in the drips of condensation running down the window at sunrise the other morning. Perfect.

Masham Gallery Exhibition - Four Seasons in One Day

Four red dots already on my work!

April 17th - May 24th 2009. 
Masham Gallery website at http://www.mashamgallery.co.uk/index.html . 

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.

Derby Open Entries

Its that time of the year already, Derby Open is an annual painting and sculpture competition. I have entered for the past three years, getting entries in the first and third years. Some people get in every year some people try for years without success.

Anyhow here are the two paintings I'm submitting.

Wish me luck :-)


"Into the Woods" 24x24 inch


"Tywyn Dusk" 20x30 inch

Derbyshire Life - Artist of the Year: Vote Buxton!

The finalists exhibition of "Derbyshire Life - Artist of the Year" is now open and you can vote between now and the third week in October in person at the gallery, which is open as follows;

Saturday 10 to 5
Sunday 11 to 4.

Gallery-S, 22 Matlock Green, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3BT, UK Tel: 01629580011

Many thanks to Sal Edwards from the University of Derby for taking such great photos, which will be used for a feature in the University of Derby magazine "Connected"

Vote Buxton!

New Sculpture - "Hot line to the Hereafter"

Thought you might be interested in my new sculpture "Hotline to the Hereafter"

A modified intercom from early 20th century. Visually reinvented with "modern" technological touches to give a hint that this might be an object from an alternative history*. The red light winks rapidly when the device is in standby. On lifting the hand-piece from the cradle the connecting lead base glows orange and the listener is presented with purely random white-noise. An Atheist riposte in an increasingly religious world.

* maybe the Steampunk literary genre

Will be on show at Gallery-s (UK)(http://www.gallery-s.co.uk/) 4th March for 4 weeks.