Exhibition for the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival

I'll be exhibiting at The Workstation in Sheffield from the 6th 'til 15th March. This exhibition is timed to be part of the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, which is a renowned, annual, long-weekend event in the city. I'm sharing this exhibition with two other artists, Katherine Rhodes and Tessa Lyons - all three of us have an interest in the Outdoors and make pictures of mountains, crags and moors.
I've been pressing myself to finish a number of new paintings for this exhibition and, with a week to go, still have some last minute work to do. I'll post a full catalogue later in the week but here, to whet your appetite, are two recently finished paintings.

The South Face of the Aiguille du Midi

Batian and Nelion, Mount Kenya at dawn

New work for an exhibition in March 2018

After last year's solo exhibition I felt I needed to re-invent the way I was painting. It's been an evolution rather than a revolution, but I'm nearly ready for this year's exhibition. I've been trying to bring colour into my drawing and have worked seriously with chalk pastels, both on landscape drawings and with my life drawing.

My life drawing has been going well using charcoal, so I was keen to link that approach with my landscape work. I wanted to bring in colour so that drawings would serve as closer studies for paintings. My intention is to use drawings as an intermediate stage, rather than working directly from landscape photographs, to make my large acrylic landscapes. The drawings below all try that approach.

Tre Cime de Lavaredo

Flying Buttress, Stanage Edge

Robin Hood's Buttress, Stanage Edge

The colour is a little experimental - for me they still betray their photographic starting point. Once the spring comes I'll be taking my drawing outside, because working directly from the landscape is a habit I've lost in recent years.