Three Pictures of Cornwall

Stumbled across an old watercolour of St. Michael's Mount and thought it interesting to compare it to a recent pastel a while back a medium I've not tried before. The cliff watercolour is from a walk on the north Cornwall coast in an extraordinary week not that long ago and one I shall, never, ever forget ...

Do take a look at the work of the travelled landscape artist Patrick Lewis at patlewis.co.uk, an equally extraordinary and inspiring talent, by chance, I found working "En Plein Air" captivated by the spell of the north cornish cliffs. The wonderful colour sense of his work and vibrancy of his sketching serve only to echo the heart felt passion pouring off his 'real life' canvasses in situ. Portraying a human connection with the form of our natural landscape and changing light that only a true artist working beneath the elements can be experiencing - something today rare to find in contemporary landscape art, frightened by the quality of its roots like Turner and a world away from photographic, illustrative, representations and studio work the public are so often confronted by. This is intelligent work from a painter with great sensitivity for composition, detail and understanding of expression for the elements surrounding him. And someone I would do well to learn from!