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Abstract Artist using narratives derived from nature and emotional wellbeing
Commission painting. Something I am used to having Commission painting. Something I am used to having started my career as a mural painter. I first produce a sketch, this is a broad sketch to give an idea of composition and colour. This is then squared up in thirds. Squaring up is my preferendo way of working as it is easy to scale up the sketch but also gives the work an underlying geometric structure.
Each Sunday I take my sister out drawing and then Each Sunday I take my sister out drawing and then we go back to her care home and paint on her bedroom walls. Makes her feel good
I am working on some smaller panels on the studio I am working on some smaller panels on the studio but with much more concentrated attention to detail and colour. The smaller works now have a more miniature feeling about them. There is some influence from Samual palmer , particularly the Shoreham period panels which were usually painted with tempera and watercolour on a gesso panel. I remember seeing these in 2006 I believe in the British museum and was mesmerised by their jewel like quality an intimacy. Although small they had a huge presence. The small panels I am making reflect the detail in my larger work and hint towards a vastness of space. This panel measures 210 x 150 mm. They will be displayed in a gilded frame. #abstratart #miniaturepainting🖌️ #samuelpalmer #abstractexpressionism #bobaldous
Small panel painting study using tempera under pai Small panel painting study using tempera under painting with oil overpainting. In these panels I am experimenting with line and colour to present compositions that relate to space and movement. I use baroque references to pictorial space and have a particular interest in late 16th and early 17th century painting and drawing. With a particular liking for the compositions of Raphael and Titian. #titian #oldmasters #oldmasterpainting #oldmasterstechnique #abstractart
Diptych displayed at Linley thanks to Renee @bloom Diptych displayed at Linley thanks to Renee @bloomfieldsart
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Just been visiting Marrakesh, beautiful place to g Just been visiting Marrakesh, beautiful place to go for winter sun and escape the London rain. Yesterday I was at Jardiln Marjorelle, and a few days before the waterfalls at Setti Fatma. Great to take the watercolours and just spend hours painting plain air.
Exhibiting curated by Bloomfields Arts @bloomfield Exhibiting curated by Bloomfields Arts @bloomfieldsart @linleylondon
I went to visit the atmospheric Pullens yard in El I went to visit the atmospheric Pullens yard in Elephant and Castle where I had a studio briefly many years ago. Such a wonderful place to work, the artist Frank Bowling had his studio opposite. Yesterday I went back to visit their open Studios and Frank’s studio was there as ever full of his magnificent paintings. Such a rare and beautiful experience. @frankbowlingstudio @pullensyards
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Moon River, wider than a mile, I’m crossing you Moon River, wider than a mile, I’m crossing you inn style, someday, Oh, dream maker, You heartbreaker, Wherever you’re going , I’m going your way. Two drifters off to see the world, There’s such a lot of world to see, We’re after the same rainbow’s end, Waiting round the bend, My huckleberry friend, Moon River and me. Acrylic and watercolour on silk 2 x 150 x 100 cms With @aafineart #moon #moonriver #abstractart #londonart #aafineart
Sometimes there is nothing better than taking my s Sometimes there is nothing better than taking my sketch pad out and drawing in nature. These trees are old friends. I remember them from 20 years ago. I walked through woodland where I used to live in Old Coulsdon. Much of this part of the woodland had been savagely cleared but I was so relieved to find the pair of entwined beech trees still standing. A newly formed sapling in the foreground.
New Diptych. Most of the work is actually done mix New Diptych. Most of the work is actually done mixing colour on the rather chaotic glass tabletop. A combination of pigments, oil paint and various mediums.
Showing with @aafineart . These painting Amanda hu Showing with @aafineart . These painting Amanda hung as a diptych which also works well as they are using the same colour combination. The paintings are on silk with the silk first dyed with Marigold. They measure 100x 80 cms each. Contact @aafineart for details.
Rock and Island 1and 2 Diptych now hanging with Li Rock and Island 1and 2 Diptych now hanging with Linley @linleylondon in Their Belgravia show room. Think they make much more sense as a pair which is how I meant them to be seen. Many thanks to @bloomfieldsart for their curation and support.
Rock and Island 1 Diptych 150 x100cms Acrylic o Rock and Island 1 Diptych 150 x100cms Acrylic on silk Rock and Island       Looking down, from mountain cliff headland, Into the indigo dyed sea.   The sky beyond, shades of cobalt hue, Waves of deja vu dissolve over stone. Or was it from the other shore? That peninsular into blue.   Where the translucent glaze of evening’s past, Lift to reveal an azure glow. Copyright Bob Aldous
Rock and Island 2. 150 x 100 cms Acrylic and ink Rock and Island 2. 150 x 100 cms Acrylic and ink on silk To be exhibited with @bloomfieldsart at @linleylondon . Using indigo, cyan and ultramarine blues. Space and memory. Using ideas of different spaces with water as the metaphor and membrane. Looking through, looking at and looking beyond. The rock in the foreground a mirror image of the island beyond. Rock occupying the poetic present and Island memory and loss.
Looking through some old watercolours inspired by Looking through some old watercolours inspired by Turner and decided to rework them in. Paper is really important but cannot remember what paper this was but it holds those atmospheric washes beautifully.
The song of Birds Exhibiting with @haydengallery The song of Birds Exhibiting with @haydengallery Painted on Silk 150 x 100cms Poetic piece inspired by bird song Just received this from the Poet Myra Schneider Copyright the poet Myra Schneider THE BIRDS 29.5.25 You watch a pack of seagulls high in the sky swoop down to a pool of azure blue sea beneath a crumbling cliff but when they rise again and wheel in a screeching mob you escape inland, find green peacefulness in a wood. A blackbird slips into a leafy bush and you stop to listen to its liquid song until it’s drowned by parakeets squawking in the tree tops overhead. At once some belligerent rooks start cawing and flapping their wings. When the din dies down and silence returns you unclench and move on. It’s only later, at home, when a jaunty magpie hops onto a plum tree in your garden, that it strikes you how stupid humans are. Although we can walk on land we’ve learnt how to make cars to drive across it at speed, we’re constructing larger and larger liners to carry us across seas, building planes so fast they can fly us in a few hours to faraway countries, but we refuse to see we’re stifling plants in the ground with rubbish, polluting rivers and oceans, fouling the air. Unless we stop only birds will survive on our planet. Myra Schneider After The Voices of Birds Robert Aldous
Indigo Shore, exhibiting at the beautiful Hayden G Indigo Shore, exhibiting at the beautiful Hayden Gallery in Marlow @haydengallery . Measuring 150 x 100 cms and painted on silk. #marlow #henleyonthames #henley #abstract #abstractart #interiordesign #interiorinspirations
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