sea blue sky abstracts

St Ives Society of Artists Festival Show  was hung today and a rich, varied and colourful exhibition is the outcome.  Well worth a visit. My submissions are shown below, two framed paintings and five small mounted paintings for the browser 'Last of the Winter Sunlight, Porthminster' oil on deep-edge canvas, 30 x 40 cm.  SOLD 'Sea's Rushing In' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Cold Sea Wave Break' oil on board. SOLD 'Spacious Porthmeor' oil on board. SOLD 'Stormy Sea Surge' oil on board.  SOLD 'Nice Waves for Paddling' oil on board. SOLD 'Surf, Sand Cover' oil on board. SOLD And at Art Space Gallery, St Ives ...... 'Cove and Bright Sky Reflection'  oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Offshore Mist Bank' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Sun, Mist and Surf' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm.

The first two paintings featured can be found  at St Ives Society of Artists  Members Mixed Show 2018 (until 4th September).  Now (15th September, 2018) at Art Space Gallery, St Ives Click the web link to find out more about this and forthcoming exhibitions at the historic Mariners Gallery, in the heart of St Ives.  'Welcome Late Afternoon Shade' oil on board, 16 x 22.5 cm.  SOLD 'Beach Landscape' oil on board, 16 x 22.5 cm. SOLD And here are two recent deliveries to Art Space Gallery, St Ives 'Coast, Surf to Shore' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Breaking Wave, Crashing to Shore' oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD Click images to enlarge.  Copyright Lesley Ninnes St Ives, Cornwall.

Summer whizzes by - and what a summer (temporarily supplanted by wind and much needed rain) the long balmy days and heat have been wonderful.  Hope the good times return soon!  Because life has been so busy, blog posts have been far and few between, so this looks to be another 'bumper crop' of my small paintings in oil on board.  Showing the most recent first. Currently displayed at Art Space Gallery, St Ives 'Beach Weather 2018'  13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'When the Beach is a Calm Place' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD    'Wild Sea Moment' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'North Coast Blue' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'High Clouds Breaking, St Ives Bay' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Seeing for Miles, Coast' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Misty Beach Margin' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Summer Surf and Rock' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. SOLD 'Summer Beach and Surf' 13.5 x 13.5 cm. S

The following paintings - a 'bumper crop' this year! - are already in situ at Thomas Henry Gallery , Nantucket.  They're rendered in oil on primed board and each measures 13.5 x 13.5 cm, before framing. 'Tide Pulling Away from Shore' 'Racing Breeze and Surf' 'Rushing Surf' 'Ocean Freedom' 'Luminous Surf & Cloud' 'Sea Space, Soft Light' 'Broken Cloud, Choppy Sea' 'A Warm Day at the Beach' 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

Three new small, square paintings for Art Space Gallery, St Ives They will be delivered by Friday at the latest. 'Coming In Fast'  SOLD oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. 'Coast, Promise and Ominous'   SOLD oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. 'Distance at the Cove'  SOLD oil on board, 13.5 x 13.5 cm. Unframed original paintings for the browser already delivered to St Ives Society of Artists Mariners Gallery 'A Peaceful Place to Be' SOLD oil on board, 10 x 18 cm. 'Beach, Brightening from the West'  oil on board, 14 x 10 cm. SOLD 'Surf Break, Porthgwidden' SOLD oil on board, 10 x 9.5 cm. 'Edge of the Bay'  oil on board, 11 x 4.5 cm. SOLD Back from the framer's, new work on my wall at Art Space Gallery, St Ives White painted wooden bespoke frames. 'January Surf and Sun' diptych   SOLD 18 x 4.5 cm/ 14 x 4 cm 'Bracing Surf' triptych  SOLD 13