sea blue sky abstracts

Humid, sometimes sunny, very windy and often wet!  Come on July, we're hoping for better and it's time to settle down. Today, there are three paintings to show you and they're as different in atmosphere and colour as the above mentioned weather. See them within the next few days at   Art Space Gallery, St Ives 'Godrevy and St Ives Bay View' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD   'Stormy Sea, Warm Light' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Weather and Tide Watch' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD Click images to enlarge. Copyright Lesley Ninnes St Ives, Cornwall

Very gradually (life seems to have been so busy) artworks are appearing.  Here are six small oil paintings completed this month.  A process of experiment and discovery - no wonder they're so much fun to do!  'Blustery and Choppy at the Cove' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD 'Onshore, Still Air' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.  SOLD 'Change for the Better 2020' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Seawater Invasion' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Beach, Sunlit Cloud' oil on primed board,13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Kelp Defines the Shore' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD Click images to enlarge.  Copyright Lesley Ninnes St Ives, Cornwall

 Some spring-like sunshine was very welcome today, in St Ives and so warm out of the wind, down on the Wharf. As these paintings are already on display at Art Space Gallery, St Ives   I thought it best to get a move on with this post! 'Shadows and Rocks  oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Sea, Putting on a Show' oil on board, 13.5 x 13/5 cm.  SOLD 'Tidal Take Over' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'A Promise of Good Weather' Oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.  SOLD 'Godrevy Emerges from the Mist' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.  SOLD This last painting is not yet exhibited at Art Space but will be very soon. 'Beach, Best Part of the Day' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD Click images to enlarge.  Copyright Lesley Ninnes St Ives, Cornwall.

Had so much fun painting the first two artworks (shown below) which were prompted by the fear that continual painting in oil on small boards was making my work too tight. Also, the last two very large commissions in oil on canvas completed last year were a struggle and soooo time consuming, which I have attributed to the lack of speedy, loose gestural under painting in acrylic, which were a feature of earlier large compositions. 'Sea Mist Offshore, Porthmeor' acrylic on deep edge canvas, 30 x 80 cm. SOLD Beach, Action and Shadow'  SOLD  acrylic/acrylic gels on chunky deep edge canvas, 50 x 50 cm.  And here are the small....  'Surf Erosion'  SOLD oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   Currently on display at Art Space Gallery, St Ives 'Weather Event on the Horizon'  SOLD oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. 'High Waves and Foam' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Seashore - Colou...

Well on into January and here's my first paintings post of 2015, doesn't time fly! This part of Cornwall was gloriously sunny today and looking beautiful, with barely a cloud in the sky.  I had to pop over to Penzance this afternoon; the hills and moors were sharply etched against the solid blue of the sky, Mounts Bay was gleaming and St Michael's Mount looking particularly imposing.  The whole journey was a continuous visual treat.  Find the square paintings at Art Space Gallery when open again after refurbishment (no later than 29 January 2015).  The rectangular artworks are awaiting mounting and or framing....... 'Beach Elements' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD 'It's Got to be Porthmeor' oil on board, 13.5 x 10 cm 'Rockpool and Distance' mixed media on paper, 28 x 19 cm 'Porthmeor, Weather Wonder'  oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD 'Porthmeor, Surf Impression' ...

Still working on a Winter theme, but with some sun coming through. Sea has continued to be spectacular, with quite a lot of wind, but the weather is so much drier and brighter and the days longer.  Feels like Spring, as colour and flowers return to the garden.  A lovely blue sky as I write, cloudless! The newly completed paintings below will soon be framed and on display at Art Space Gallery . 'Sun on the Surf' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5cm.   SOLD 'Promise of Fine Weather' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD 'Gale Force Swells' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD 'Winter Sun at the Beach' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD 'A Winter Day' oil on primed board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.   SOLD Click to enlarge.  Copyright Lesley Ninnes.