by Clare Bowen | Jun 30, 2018 | England, Garden, Green, Landscape, Oil Painting, Summer, Teaching, Trees
I did a 1 to 1 plein air day with Elizabeth St John this week. She wanted to paint the view from our garden as we focused on mixing greens. Sheltered by a big pine tree we weren’t too hot and managed to get two paintings done. I suggested she mixed her...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 29, 2018 | England, Flowers, Jug, Oil Painting, Peonies, Pink, Still Life
Peonies by Mary Oliver “This morning the green fists of the peoniesare getting readyto break my heartas the sun rises,as the sun strokes them with his old,buttery fingersand they open -pools of lace,white and pink – and all day the black ants climb...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 26, 2018 | Green, Landscape, South Downs, Summer, The Trundle, Trees, West Sussex
Late summer evenings are wonderful to paint, I tent not to make them very often because I’m too keen to paint first thing and I’m usually tired by the evening, but I geared myself up for this one and went for it! I loved the shadows on the white chalk...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 24, 2018 | Countryside, England, Green, Landscape, Oil Painting, Summer, Surrey, Surrey Hills
I was feeling confident from my previous large scale peonies painting so decided to go large on this one as well. I wouldn’t usually on a new subject but was egged on by Sarah Manolescue who also went big.We struggled a little with noise pollution – young...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 21, 2018 | Artist Life, Flowers, Peonies, Pink, Still Life, Studio
This is a whopper for me – two foot by two foot! I enjoyed it and surprised myself that I could do it and it turned out nicely :-)I did start on a a 11×14″ but it still felt crampt so I routelled around in my cupboard and found this canvas, I...
