As it is the New Year I made a video about visiting the art studio and taking a look around at all the paintings for sale. It starts at the gate then you walk up the drive to the studio, through the door and take a look around. Its about 14mins long and gives you a real good look at a couple of rooms in the studio and some of the paintings.
“Don’t Worry be happy”, a phrase made famous by Bob Marley. But preceding him, this perfect phrase originated in the great depths of the Indian Spiritual Guru, Meher Baba, who first coined the phrase. He said that worry was a major problem as it gets in the way of spiritual progress. And if you worry you can’t be happy and you certainly can’t get too spiritual if you aren’t happy. Happiness and the spiritual are one of the same and linked in every way. If you distill happiness you get pure joy and from pure joy you get close to God, and close to God you get pure bliss. So follow the train to feel really happy.
This is why I love painting so much because it gives me the space to focus on what is truly wonderful, feeling happy and content all day long. Every day when I am painting I can be immersed in this wonderful task away from the daily travels of life in my beautiful studio. Combining light, form and colours to create a wonderful positive and happy painting is the focus for the day.
Its a funny business, the art world. I engineer my paintings using every technique I can find to stimulate a feeling of happiness, and the entire business is run along lines where we endeavor to make our customers happy. In the art world it seems as if the modern curators put suffering and shock on a pedestal while ridiculing anything which has any hint of happiness about it. It is so easy to worry, so easy to suffer, even easier to be sad or to shock. Its a peace of cake, in fact easier still so why is it so prized by the modern critics. To rid yourself of worry and feel happy is such a precious task, so hard as to be nearly impossible, so disguised it is rarely seen.
In each painting I engage subtle techniques of colour combinations, light, form and association to create the highest sense of happiness I can. Its a continually evolving process as I oscilate from the abstract to the representational to find the correct balance to engage the heart and dodge the ever oppressive mind.
Spiritual Love Poems and Paintings have a lot in common. Art is just coloured oil on a piece of canvas until it is made and then it becomes a piece of love in art. The artist translates his feelings into the painting and when you view the painting it can trigger the same feelings back to the viewer.
My paintings are all about fun, love, beauty and happiness. If you distill the inner feelings which you chase through these sensations, you get Spiritual Love, then end product, the concentrated form of pure pleasure.
The Spiritual love poems in the books are riddles, poems and mind teasers which try to trick the mind out of the way so you can see a part of true spiritual love hidden within the poem, just like Rumi and Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. The paintings in the book and the Spiritual love poems act as the perfect compliments as they work in slightly different ways.
You can see the Spiritual Love Poem books for sale on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com (see below for links for USA and Europe). The books are very beautiful, full of Spiritual Love Poems and colourful paintings. These poems originated from when I was painting and exhibiting my art in India. You can see more on thes Spiritual Love Poems books on another part of this web site
The Mincracker book is based more on Eastern Spiritual Philosophy and riddles. The Spiritual Love Poem book is more based on metaphors linking the great Oceans to the endless infinite expanse of God. Both books are full of colourful paintings and poems and are a great gift to add a splash of interest to the coffee table.
If you live in the UK then buy from Amazon.co.uk. If you live in the USA then buy from Amazon.com. See links below.
See a preview of the book and the Spiritual Love Poems. Please note this is a low resolution version and only a small extract.
Spiritual Love Poems Book on Amazon.co.uk for Europe & UK
Mind Cracker Book on Amazon.co.uk for Europe & UK
Mind Cracker Book on Amazon.com for USA
Spiritual Love Poems Book on Amazon.com for USA
Currently in the pipe line is a hardback large book of special prints of all the best paintings of the last 4 years. This will go on sale towards the end of next year.
Chamonix is the centre of atmosphere with the epic valley views of Mt Blanc and the cable car up to the Aguille du Midi at 3842. This is an incredible place on top of the earth with access to the world famous Vallee Blanche off piste itinerary from the top of the cable car right down to Chamonix valley.
This is a beautiful Chamonix oil painting, 80cm x 80cm x 4.5cm deep on canvas. Full of texture and colour this painting captures the atmosphere beautifully. After leaving the Aiguille Du Midi cable car and ice tunnel you are straight onto the arete en route to the Vallee Blanche with a view all the way down to Chamonix. A rope guide is all that stops you from taking the direct route back to Chamonix.
Heading down the ridge to the start of the Vallee Blanche after leaving the Aiguille Du Midi cable car. This is a great painting mimicking the atmosphere of this special place on Mt Blanc, Chamonix. Mosaic texture and pattern of colours make this an interesting painting. Look out for the skiers making their way to the descent in the bottom left. 70cm x 50cm x 4.5cm deep with the image painted on the edge.
Aiguille Du Midi Glacier & Cable Car, Mt Blanc at Chamonix and the Vallee Blanche Oil painting For Sale.Looking up at the Aiguille Du Midi cable car on Mt Blanc Chamonix. Skiers setting off to the Glacier off piste route left. Colours and patterns on the glacier centre and right. Beautiful mosaic effect of the colours and textures on the canvas help to add atmosphere to the glacier ice. Oil on canvas 70cm x 50cm x 1.8cm deep.
View these paintings for sale and other skiing and snowboard paintings for sale in the shop
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Colourful large London oil paintings centred around the River Thames and near to the centre of London including Westminster Bridge and Soutwark Bridge using colourful oil paints and Gold Leaf. This is a beautiful oil painting of Westminster and Westminster Bridge with Big Ben piercing the skyline. The sky has a real atmosphere and creates a great glint across the Thames river. Lots of colour detail make this a really interesting and exciting painting to have. 100cm x 50cm x 4.5cm oil on block canvas.
A really beautiful painting just down river from Westminster capturing the fantastic winter light which is so prevalent along the River Thames in February. Big Ben, Westminster and Westminster Bridge in the distance. Stunning colours and texture really make this a painting to treasure. 60cm x 60cm x 4.5cm oil on canvas.
You can see in this painting how the white gold captures the glint of the sun shining through the clouds. On the water the variety of golds really capture the feeling of the sun glistening off the Thames. This really is such a beautiful oil painting embellished by real Gold leaf. I have used a mixture of Golds from 12ct up to 24ct to add tone and colour to the light in the large paintings. In places copper and silver have been used to add to the colour spread. I always love to add light to the paintings and that is why I paint for the light and the love of light and colour. For years I added white and used a dark background to increase the effect of light on the canvas, to convey a sense of brightness. The Gold leaf adds many new dimensions to the work. Its a metal instead of soft oil and canvas. It shines and reflects light and it forms different shapes to the brushes and knives I use. It can have soft edges, hard edges or just glistening speckles. There are different colours from white gold to pure 24ct gold. What I love about it above the light is how it draws you in and reflects the light back. When you look at the painting from different angles and at different times of day it changes depending on how the light catches the gold. When the gold is bright the colours sit back a little and when the gold is reflecting less from another angle the colours come to the front more. Blog on Gold Leaf Paintings
Large Gold Oil Paintings, I think I have found the love of my life!
These really are such beautiful oil paintings embellished by real Gold leaf. I have used a mixture of Golds from 12ct up to 24ct to add tone and colour to the light in the large paintings. In places copper and silver have been used to add to the colour spread.
I always love to add light to the paintings and that is why I paint for the light and the love of light and colour. For years I added white and used a dark background to increase the effect of light on the canvas, to convey a sense of brightness.
Then two years ago I was in Courchevel 1850 and Megeve and I visited some of the very expensive art galleries in the french alps frequented by the flamboyant Russian clients. I fell in love in those galleries. They had a hue of gold and monied opulence which just seemed to hang in the air, so thick you could breathe it. It was tacky and it wasn’t over the top, it just glowed in a beautiful and reassuring way. It made you know it was there but it didn’t over power. Subtle beauty, but powerful.
I returned to my studio and invested in some gold leaf which I have looked at for over a year, and it was recently that I began to see how it would work in my paintings and i was inspired to use it to embellish my works.
The Gold leaf adds many new dimensions to the work. Its a metal instead of soft oil and canvas. It shines and reflects light and it forms different shapes to the brushes and knives I use. It can have soft edges, hard edges or just glistening speckles. There are different colours from white gold to pure 24ct gold.
What I love about it above the light is how it draws you in and reflects the light back. When you look at the painting from different angles and at different times of day it changes depending on how the light catches the gold. When the gold is bright the colours sit back a little and when the gold is reflecting less from another angle the colours come to the front more.
These are really special paintings and they do take a lot of time and thought to get them to work right so they are going to be a little more expensive. But compared to my trips around some of the more exclusive galleries of London Paris, South France and the Alps they are tremendously good value.
These new large oil paintings with gold leaf will officially go on sale on the web site towards December this year.
Argentiere ski and snowboard painting for sale. Lightly coloured turquoise and purple on a smaller canvas of part of the Chamonix ski area. I will be revisiting Chamonix again this winter so expect some more ski paintings from The Grands Montets, Brévent / Flégère ski areas.
Courmayeur and Mt Blanc ski and snowboard oil painting for sale. Epic colours and textures make this wonderful semi abstract oil painting float off the wall. On deep canvas 80cm x 80cm this is an amazing painting and I love it. I can only say the jpeg does not do it justice. The glacier sweeps down from Mt Blanc in the centre and Mt Blanc climbs up to the right through the trees. Pistes part of the Courmayeur ski area deep in powder lie off to the left. Probably be in the £800 mark when it is put up for sale later in the year.
Check out the previous Switzerland Blog on the ski and snowboard paintings from Verbier, Siviez and Mt Blanc. If you ski Chamonix don’t forget Verbier is so close by bus over the pass to ski another epic off piste centre. Its only 60km away and on the same pass.
Verbier Skiing paintings will add a real atmosphere to your wall. From 60cm x 60cm deep block canvas up to over 100cm wide framed oil paintings
Skiing and Snowboarding paintings from Verbier and Mt Fort are nearly ready. Here is the collection from last years epic powder season.
This is a beautiful collection of really luscious and colourful oil paintings inspired by the powder above Verbier in Switzerland. You really have to see them in the real life with the fantastic textures and colours.
There are two more smaller paintings to still complete while these bigger paintings up to 1m across are drying.
I have just completed a beautiful pair of paintings of Croyde bay which will be made into a framed limited edition print set of 20 later in the Autumn. These original oil paintings will be for sale later in the year when they have dried. They are about 1.2 metres across and 0.6m high framed with a white block frame. These two paintings are most interesting capturing the feelings and atmosphere of the bay in such stunning colours and textures using palette knife techniques. They are a composition of images from a few similar view points to get the painting to work to its fullest and capture the eye and imagination.
This is the first of the Croyde bay paintings and below is the second one of the pair which was painted at the same time. Both of them are slightly different and have different textures and colours. The price for these paintings 1.2m x 0.6m framed will be about £495 each incl. shipping in the UK.
This is the first of this years ski season of the new ski and snowboard paintings for sale. This season the focus for the paintings is on Verbier and Siviez where I had a fresh powder dream last year in the unbelievable conditions and the incredible lift accessed off piste. These two paintings are bigger around a metre in length and on board using thick oil paints. The colours are deep and mature with purples, magenta, deep reds and hot blues. There are some interesting textures and colour combinations. These skiing and snowboarding oil paintings will be put on the site for sale towards Christmas of you can pre purchase them. They are just about complete and will need about two to three months to dry before they can be shipped.
This ski, snowboard painting is just above Siviez. Looking down into the Siviez valley with chair lift Siviez 61 dropping down into the trees. This is an epic bit of piste in the powder full of jumps and small cliff drops. From Plan Du Fou at the top when you have tried the epic off piste to Tracouet try this lovely run. As you reach the bottom of the drag Plan Du Fou 62 head straight on off piste and so much fun awaits jumps and rocks and trees, magic.
The painting is set on a fresh powder day with the cloud just starting to lift. Just below on the left you can see the bottom of the run on the other side of the valley accessed from Novelli chair lift. To the right you can see the mountains starting to peak out from under the clouds. The trees are to the right and the drop offs are straight under the lift where you head down. Beautiful deep greens and colour combinations make up the trees on the other side of the valley. To get a bit more orientaion, if you were to look just to the right of the painting through the trees and the clouds you would see Mt Fort peaking out. Price to buy this oil painting will be £750 framed and incl. shipping to Northern Europe.
This is a beautiful ski painting of the mountains just above Verbier as you drop down into the town. Tree lined runs and a wide open powder filled piste with new tracks and mounds of snow. Lovely colours and textures in the beautiful oil painting of Verbier. Great focus point and mountains in the distance make this a great painting to have on the wall. Full of colour and texture make this a real interesting painting to look at and bring some real life to your wall. Its about a metre across and will go on sale in a couple of months for £750. Its virtually finished except for putting a few skiers and snowboarders hidden in the woods. The painting is from near the lovely restaurant at the top of Maventzet lift in between Medran ski run and Etierces skiing run, looking down towards Verbier and beyond into the valley.
