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Paintings from Woolacombe and Puttsborough Beach

Putsborough Beach Surf Painting For Sale

Over the hill to Puttsborough and up to Woolacombe.

Paintings from Woolacombe and Puttsborough Beach for sale

Sunset Oil Painting North Devon Coast
Sunset Oil Painting North Devon Coast

When I moved to Croyde I started to get a taste for Woolacombe and Puttsborough beaches. I just loved cycling over the hill from Croyde to Puttsborough and taking a coffee at the café above the beach at Putsborough. Perfectly placed to watch the surfers and beach happenings, to photograph and compose paintings. Such a spot and with the headland stretching into the distance makes the perfect back drop. Beautiful waves and turquoise seas with welcome shelter from the South West sea breeze to clean up those rolling waves of surf magic.

Woolacombe Beach Huts Painting For Sale
Woolacombe Beach Huts Painting For Sale

When this beach really comes alive for a painting is as you walk or cycle along the coastal path behind the dunes, looking over the grasses and you see the amazing curve this beach has as it stretches so far up towards Woolacombe. Through the dunes here and across the beach I have painted some of my favourite sunset paintings.  The colours can be quite amazing especially in the shoulder seasons of Spring and Autumn when the sun is

Puttsborough to Woolacombe beach painting for sale
Puttsborough to Woolacombe beach painting for sale

lower in the sky, the colours seem to be sharper and more intense at this time of year. I paint sunsets all around the world, but it is the sunsets from the North Devon beaches that I paint again and again because no other sunsets have such a range of colours as here. On the beach at Woolacombe as the tide goes out or dare I say it even better after the rain, the beach turns into an enormous crystal clear mirror, reflecting the sky and the beach men and women, giving double the colour. This makes my sunset paintings so full of life and colour because you aren’t just restricted to painting the sunset in the sky, you get to paint it twice, in the beach as well. And not just the beach, the waves twinkle in the low sunlight and the flat sea beyond the breaking surf reflects the warm setting sun, mixing the yellows and pinks from the sun and the blue from the sky beyond to give the most amazing combinations of turquoise effects reflecting on the surface of the ocean.

Surfing at Putsborough large painting for sale
Surfing at Putsborough large painting for sale

Within these amazing sunsets I use a special technique from my Indian energy paintings which I developed during my years as an artist in India. I won’t go into great depth here but you can find it in other areas of the site, and if you look really hard on google you will

Woolacombe and the sand dunes oil painting
Woolacombe and the sand dunes oil painting

find little hidden corners of the site all about these special energy paintings. When I was in India over many years, at the start of my art and photography careers,  I painted a series of energy paintings which were very spiritual and abstract. They were very popular and uplifting creating a feeling of light and love. They sold very well in India. When I returned to England after a few years it was in these sunset paintings of Woolacombe, Croyde  and

Sunset Oil Painting for Sale from Woolacombe Beach or was it Saunton?
Sunset Oil Painting for Sale from Woolacombe Beach

Saunton beaches that I began to use the same techniques to great effect. They work using colours and brush strokes, light and ever lighter tones and work to pull you into the painting to lift your spirits. This is the added dimension which is the main technical basis behind the sunsets series of paintings. It gives them light and joy and it is the way a sunset works that makes them so perfect for using my energy paintings techniques to create layers of feelings within the paintings .

Colourful Oil Painting for Sale of Beach huts at Wolacombe, North Devon
Colourful Oil Painting for Sale of Beach huts at Wolacombe, North Devon

As I move up the beach towards Woolacombe this year along with Croyde beach I will be focussing on the little gems of Down End, Combesgate Beach and Barricane beach for some new paintings of hidden spots.

Ilfracombe harbour painting for sale at Dusk
Ilfracombe harbour painting for sale at Dusk

Take a look at the large and very large paintings for sale on the website and the sunset paintings for sale. For the llast two year I have had fabulous exhibitions at Ilfracombe where I have had paintings for sale at the Landmark Theatre. See more paintings for sale from Woolacombe and Putsborough Beaches.

Ilfracombe Large  Oil Painting For Sale
Ilfracombe Large Oil Painting For Sale
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Paintings For Sale, Style and Brush Strokes.

Paintings Brush Strokes For Sale

Pete Caswell’s Paintings For Sale, Style and Brush Strokes.

 

Colourful Oil Painting For Sale Sailing in Antigua
Colourful Oil Painting For Sale Sailing in Antigua

Pete Caswell’s paintings for sale are big and bold and full of colourful brush strokes. Most of the oil paintings are of a vibrant and bold impressionist style, emerging out of a sea of colourful strokes, dabs and lines. Sometimes only a colourful thin line, others thick and broad, laid as buttery paint onto the canvas or partly obscuring another stroke. This vibrant colourful layering creates a dance of colours on the canvas as they mix together in your eye to form the final image. They add an atmosphere of vibrant colourful light and joy to any room.

Large Paintings For Sale
Large Paintings For Sale

 

 

 

 

“I hope the sense of joy is imbued in the paintings I have created for you to enjoy. They are for sale but you don’t have to buy one. Just enjoy.”

Some paintings are lavishly layered with thick butter like brush stroke of pure colour giving a superb texture. Some paintings have sub layers of texture over which a picture is painted. Other paintings are painted onto a smooth canvas/board allowing one colour to be laid thinly over another and the image etched back out of the painting. This technique works wonderfully with images of water laid over the sand, reflections and complex images of flowers.

 

Colourful Sunset Oil painting For Sale
Colourful Sunset Oil painting For Sale

Look at the bold placing of pure vibrant colour and the interlayering of brush strokes. One colour over another. Quite beautiful, vibrant and colourful. This layering of colour and compilation of colours and brush strokes leads to a more complex image which is more interesting to the eye. It makes for a brighter and more appealing painting which will hold the viewers interest for much longer. In some images it can take a while to see all that is hidden amongst the colours and quite often you can see things that I have yet to see.

 

The paintings are all about joy, pleasure, pure happiness, an expression of joy. There are no miserable bits, no exploring a hidden dark side or repressed childhood.

 

“This is all about pure unadulterated joy in as much depth, concentration and exuberation as I can get to flow off the end of the brush. However I can achieve this, and through whatever medium and technique, this is the absolute and only target of the work. If my work doesn’t make you feel good, I’ll give you your money back.”

Thick Brush Strokes on this Painting For Sale
Thick Brush Strokes on this Painting For Sale

 

All the works are intuitively created into a mesmerizing blend of colour combinations which  fall off the brush and create onto the canvas an uplifting and captivating scene. This combination gives a moving and exciting feast for the eyes which will give you many years of interest and joy. The bigger the painting you can afford the better.

This combination of colours lifts the painting from a flat image to something which is more experiential by creating the image inside of the head instead of on the flat canvas. This gives a deeper and more interesting and stimulating image to look at.

Ski Paintings oil on canvas for sale
Ski Paintings oil on canvas for sale

John Henderson an art expert who lives nearby comments,

“Pete’s work is a wonderful collage of light flicks of paint placed in a beautiful style of complete freedom combined with series of broken lines, all combining to form the full image which can often take several seconds or minutes in some of the deeper paintings. The paintings are centred around a main primary colour backed by a series of balancing secondary complimenting colours. Pete is a colourist pure and simple and in a class of his own in freedom and style. . While he sometimes describes himself as an impressionist his work is beyond the realms of impressionism. I see qualities in his work which evoke feelings an atmospheres of many great artists, especially Kokoschka, but to pin any one name on his work would be missing the point. This work is of a quality an freedom that is rarely seen. My only advice is to buy these paintings while they remain affordable. They can only appreciate in value. Good Luck in your work”.

Large Sailing Oil Painting from Cannes South France
Large Sailing Oil Painting from Cannes South France

 

Pete’s paintings can be found for sale on his Web site      www.petecaswell.co.uk