Chris Edwick - somewhere over the rainbow... 75 x 100 cms. oil on canvas

somewhere, over the rainbow…
oil on canvas 75 x 100 cm

only nature matters now...

I think it’s my duty as an artist to do all I can to draw attention to the beauty of nature in the hope of reminding and inspiring us all to love and cherish it…

Chris Edwick - that I heard of, once in a lullaby…

that I heard of, once in a lullaby…
oil on canvas  75 x 100 cm

I’m not interested in geography…it’s the joy that matters…

I wonder if there’s a language that can be made in colour, paint and gesture that’s good enough to stand in for the ecstasy of nature…

the time of yellow flowers…in pink…
oil on canvas 70 x 113 cm

I’ve walked these hilltops for so many years…but now it’s time to talk with colour and all the boldness I can muster in brushwork, to say what I’ve felt for so long about these places in nature…

Chris Edwick - dreams that you dare to dream come true...90 x 120 oil on canvas s

dreams that you dare to dream come true…
oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm

Moving into the new studio seems to have had a dramatic effect on my work. I think the room to move, the light and the views out to the countryside beyond through the vast studio windows has brought nature firmly into my imaginative awareness…

Studies and colour notations underpin the progress of paintings. The speed of digital painting has always been useful for making rapid sketches…

study for the “over the rainbow…” series
digital painting made using Affinity Publisher software, 2022

…but I love to spend days exploring the possibilities of each idea in small scale, oil paint studies.

It’s a time to explore each individual colour in relation to the whole and play with composition, space and colour mood.

Each idea is so infinitely variable. This is the chance to focus the direction and ambition of the larger scale works that follow.

the studio at Wiltshire 2022, colour studies

it’s a search for paint in its most sensual and voluptuous state… blending and mixing, till it’s the perfect, creamy consistency…

 

Chris Edwick oil palette
Chris Edwick - bluebirds fly over the rainbow... 75 x 100 cms. oil on canvas

bluebirds fly over the rainbow…
oil on canvas 75 x 100 cm

Can I use paint in a way that conveys the ecstasy of nature…?

over the rainbow, skies are blue…
oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm