LandEscapes - New Charcoal Drawings 
Mossie Quille
6th-18th December, 11am-6pm
Centrespace Gallery, 6 Leonard Lane, Bristol BS1 1EA

Not long to go now until my first solo exhibition, LandEscapes, opens at Centrespace Gallery, but what can visitors expect to see and what is it all about?

Twilight, a time to work fast

As the clocks go back, the weather worsens, and the dark nights draw in, there is time in this post to reflect on the last few mild sunny evenings that we've enjoyed here in North Somerset and Bristol. I have been spending time on these sunny evenings on a farm track near Long Ashton, drawing the sun setting over a small village nearby called Yanley.

'Oak Tree near Yanley' Somerset   22-9-13   42cm x 59cm   From A Somerset Sketchbook

Introducing A Somerset Sketchbook

A Somerset Sketchbook has been added to my website.

This new sketchbook features drawings created between May 2013 to the present, at locations around North Somerset. Many of the drawings have since been worked on and developed further, some of which are due to appear on the walls of the Centrespace Gallery in December, as part of my charcoal drawing exhibition LandEscapes - New Charcoal Drawings.

Featured in this post are three of the new drawings now uploaded to my website.

'Tree Roots, Colliter's Brook'   Hanging Hill Wood, Somerset   21-5-13   42cm x 59cm   From A Somerset Sketchbook

    Exhibition Announced!




I am very pleased to invite you all to my first solo exhibition this December! Invites for the Private View, which takes place on Saturday 7th December between 6 - 8pm, will be mailed out shortly. 

Watercolours from Europe 2012


I thought I would take a break from the Charcoal work for this post and introduce a little colour to my blog by sharing this short slideshow of Watercolour pieces taken from one of my Europe sketchbooks. These works were created whilst on a long holiday in Europe through the summer of 2012. All the works on the slide are of the Spanish and French Pyrenees except 'Pierre's Roses' which was painted in Limousin.

6 New Drawings uploaded to A Panoramic Sketchbook!

Click here to view the new panoramic sketchbook drawings in Mossie Quille Charcoals. I have recently been exploring the area South of Dundry Hill, a seemingly vast expanse of rolling hills, zig-zagging fields, and tree lined tunnels. 'Northwick Road' is one of the new sketchbook drawings, and is the view due North looking up toward Dundry Hill. This is one area I think I shall be returning to again and again over the coming months, not least to do some oil painting!

'Northwick Road' Norton Hawkfield, Bristol 27-8-13    84cm x 30cm    From A Panoramic Sketchbook

Here's a drawing from earlier this summer. I've used Vine charcoal (as in grapevine). Not so easy to get hold of locally, I had to get it shipped from the States where it appears to be a little more common. It is 'bluer' in colour than willow charcoal, and it has its own handling qualities, which like other charcoals vary quite dramatically depending on what sort of paper is being used. This is drawn on Fabriano Artistico 300gsm HP Watercolour paper. A really beautiful paper to work with. Stay tuned/ subscribe/ sign up for more paper talk!!

'Colliter's Brook, Hanging Hill Wood' Near Long Ashton, Bristol 30-5-13. 56cm x 76cm

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