It has been half term last week so we took the children away to Ambleside, Lake District and I combined taking photographs of the landscape, and visiting art galleries with the holiday. It was amazing because the trees had turned various shades of red and orange. I was interested in the light on the landscape, colour and texture and feel that the atmosphere of the outside is captured more by abstract landscape than realistic. By that I mean it captures what you are feeling the beauty and essence of nature. On my return I came across these abstract landscapes by Anne Stahl who lives in San Luis Obispo USA I feel she creates the essence of the landscape. These paintings are views from bogs.
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| Bog by Anne Stahl |
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| Winter Oil on Canvas by Anne Stahl |
During my visit we visited various galleries and came across one selling large fabric panels. This is what I have been thinking of creating myself but I want to work on a large scale representative of the landscape.
I have been working on another type of printing using gum arabic to transfer atmospheric images from photographs.
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| I was pleased with the atmosphere in this print |
I also found the rough sheets I pressed against the images each time had a great abstract texture and collaged these together to create a great background to stitch into.
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