peter rossiter - Local Landscapes.

Acrylics.

A while ago I used to much prefer making landscapes with oil paint on canvas but recently I’ve discovered the delightful subtleties that can be achieved by mixing several brands of acrylic paint and making use of some of the great variety of acrylic painting media that are now available. 

All the landscapes I make are based on memories of here, where I live in Pembrokeshire, also Ceredigion, and other Welsh scenes, from mid and north Wales. My first taste of mountain scenery was as a child staying several summers in the aptly named Croesor valley south of Snowdon. Those early impressions, and my initial determination to depict them some future day, when I was “ grown up”, remains  a lasting resource.

For those interested in the technical aspect of these images: the “support” is actually an old photograph, not a landscape photo but any random coloured image.  I use the transparency and opacity of the acrylic paint to pull and push the colours in the under layers to attain modulations in richness of tone, of texture, and of colour. As I work with the paint I watch what is happening, paying particular attention to tonality. 

The resulting works are the outcome of a kind of dialogue between the media and my imagination.

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