To celebrate the near end of the ski season I had to do my favourite ski painting as a large version. I love this one of the skiers and snowboarders exiting the funicular at Tignes / Val D’Isere on the way to the cable car to scale the heights of Grande Motte.
Next season’s plans are being laid to visit Verbier, St Moritz and Zermatt on a grande tour by train and skis. Forget summer, lets have another winter.
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.
Large Oil Paintings for sale of London Westmeinster Bridge and Thames
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.
London Oil painting for sale of Westminster Bridge, Big Ben and Houses of Parliament
London Thames gold leaf large oil painting for sale. Southwark Bridge
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!
London Thames gold leaf large oil painting for sale. 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.
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.
Gold Leaf Ocean Sunset Oil Painting For Sale. This painting is still in progress, adding a glint across the top of the waves and shaping up the sun with some rich 24ct gold leaf.
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.
Large Sailing Oil Painting with Gold Leaf For Sale. Perfectly beautiful, beautiful colourful boats and rich warm colours all sparkling as the sun glances across the ocean on leaves of gold.
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.
Large Gold Leaf Sailing Boat Sunset Painting For Sale. Rich deep and a little moody. Subtle colours and low light. Complex forms of light in the gold and deep blues and reds.
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.
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.
Croyde Bay Oil Painting For Sale
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.
What’s in a name? These four beaches and their names conjure up so much magic. West facing flat beaches which lap up the waves into turquoise walls of pure heaven to ride and ride again. Soft Dunes and endless skies with their expansive views make these beaches a treasure.
These four beaches have been a source of inspiration for me ever since I moved to North Devon. My art studio is close to Saunton Sands beach and I live at Croyde so every day I get a taste of two of these stunning beaches.
I cycle around Down End, a unique headland every day, seeing the sun rise and set every day, as I round the headland from Croyde to Saunton and back again. In the evening, riding from Saunton Sands Hotel out to Down End point is a unique experience, with the coastline running all along the route, the waves and epic views running down the beach and the road appearing to melt into the setting sun in the distance.
Reflections at Saunton Sands Beach Large Oil Painting For Sale
On my way back to the studio in the morning, the view across Croyde beach is enlightening in the morning, getting the first glimpse of how the waves are shaping up. Then I climb up Down End above Saunton beach to see the tiny dots walking back and forth to the waves across the beach, and if I am early enough the sun and mist rising above the Braunton Burrows Dunes.
Even though I see this view every day I have to pull over in one of the lay bys just to admire the view once again. Even though you can see this stunning view as you drive ¼ mile along this stunning vista the lay-bys just invite a second look, even in the rain. Pick just the right spot and look out down the line along the curling waves and watch a few rollers with a few lucky surfers dancing. Then I cycle on past Saunton Sands Hotel and its all downhill to the studio just on the edge of Braunton.
Even after all those amazing views there is something about the studio that lifts my spirits. The studio is set in 7 acres of hay meadows just back from the sand dunes running down to Saunton beach. I bring back trees from around the world to plant out in the fields and there are a couple of new orchards I have planted. In my mind it is a modern version of a mini Victorian estate. It’s a kind of art project in its own right. When I bought the land it was 7 acres of flat fields to which I added the studio and began an extensive planting project which I add to very year. Open the window and if the surfs up you can hear the sound of the waves crashing and the sound bouncing off the dunes. So as I enter the gates to the studio I feel like I have walked into my own 3d canvas, a long term huge painting and sculpture which I have been working on over the last 6 years.
Woolacombe Beach huts Large Painting For Sale
Each of the beaches I treasure in this area have become projects in their own right and each year brings a focus onto a different beach. This year with the intense heat and still crystal clear turquoise waters I have found a real fondness for Down end and Barricane beaches which I have begun to photograph and no doubt will be painting later in the year.
Croyde Bay Oil Painting For Sale
Saunton Sands was the first beach I started to work on with its sharp reflections and expansive views. It is huge. When the tide goes out it leaves this thin film of water on the beach which gives a perfect mirror reflecting all those who stand above it. It is so sharp and clear that you appear to be floating on your own reflection. Take a photo on a good day and you can flip it upside down, so sharp you cannot tell which is you and which is your reflection. Interesting stuff to paint, not just visually, but from a philosophical and spiritual point of view. Working with reflections has its own deep and meaningful ways. This beach is vast and the waves can peel off beautifully down the line, a long borders heaven. Look straight down the waves as the waves and surfers line up right across to Appledore and Westward Ho! Then there are the beach huts, the headland, the Dunes and the sky, the list goes on.
Surf Painting at Saunton Beach for sale
Two years ago I was mad into Croyde beach. Totally different to Saunton. Slightly lighter sand a curvy bay and fast powerful waves. On a big break I still head to Saunton or Woolacombe, but if its smaller then Croyde can just pop some little miracles out. Waves and the shape of the bay are my big focus here. The waves here are a really neat shape, real curvy and punchy and were a basis for my big blue and turquoise wave paintings. I love Croyde because it is a perfect little bay and small village with some great view points and swimming holes. All this fun and atmosphere really helps me to paint all that fun and excitement into the paintings.
Last year and even more this year I have been painting Woolacombe. It’s got a lot of similar characteristics to Saunton with its vast length and sharp reflections. There are some fun beach huts at the top end which I have really loved painting. I did a really lovely large oil painting for sale of the huts 1.5m long which looks really amazing, sweeping views and it really sucks you into the painting.
Puttsborough to Woolacombe beach painting for sale
Woolacome beach is really growing on me at the moment. I love walking over to Putsborugh beach to have breakfast in the café, and cycling on up to Woolacombe from behind the dunes. If you surf then you get great waves here shaped somewhere inbetween Saunton and Croyde, with a bit more power but not enough to bury your head in the sand bar like at Croyde. Up and down the beach you can pick up a nice variety of waves to suite the conditions so for surfing this really gets the five star rating, especially when you add in Barricane beach and Combesgate beach .
Sunset Oil Painting for Sale from Woolacombe Beach or was it Saunton?Sunset Painting For Sale of Down End inbetween Saunton and Croyde Beaches
These four beaches are a real source of inspiration for my paintings. I have painted scenes from all of them from various angles and view points. What’s really important about this whole scene for me is the culmination of all of this influence, the surf cultures, the holiday feel, the freedom of the ocean and those expansive beaches, skies and views. Each beach is etched in my mind, the views, the colours, the sounds and smells, the atmosphere, reflections, waves. Then there are the sunsets, the soft dunes, the swaying grasses, the pounding noise of the surf and the salt spray. All of this is what I hold uppermost in my mind and this is what I hope is conveyed onto the canvas. There is really too much to put into words, the beach huts, and the stunning sunsets of yellow, pink and red. This corner of the world really is a painter’s paradise with so much colour and vibrant atmosphere to choose from.
My paintings are all about the ultimate joy in life which we can feel. They work to try to capture the joy and feelings of upliftment which we al seek to find through whatever we are doing.
oil painting on canvas for sale, inspired by the starting line up for Caribbean RORC 600 race from last year in Antigua
We all love to have fun, enjoy life, smile and be happy. Behind these emotions is a beauty which we can access at these special and rare times of pure pleasure, in whatever place or activity it may be.
I have spent much of my life chasing this illusive and special beauty which we feel in our times of joy and happiness; from the Himalayas, to the Pacific islands, from hedonistic skiing in the alps to sailing and surfing in the Caribbean, from spiritual gurus to beautiful women, from sunning in the Indian Ocean to blissful meditating in the depths of Asia’s spiritual heritage.
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I have chased this nugget of gold all round the world and it has been a lot of fun, it’s a really great job to have to do, but someone has to!
I always have my camera or paint brush to hand to capture these moments of pure happiness. When I hit on a particularly rich seam of pleasure, happiness, joy and fun I rush in to capture its essence. In these images and especially the paintings I have strived to distil this illusive path to joy and pleasure into a concentrated form. In my paintings I have used special techniques of light and dark, sparkling colours, inspirational brush strokes, gold and silver leaf and everything else which can stimulate these feelings of upliftment and pleasure. I try to produce a link from beyond the physical to make images which replicate these feelings in the paintings, once I have returned home. Fun, joy, happiness and pleasure rule the waves and oceans, so take a look at the painting to see if it works for you. It does for me. I love my paintings, do you?
Large Skiing Paintings For sale
Check out the paintings for sale on the web site from colourful tropical sunset oil paintings to skiing in the frozen mountain tops. This year I am moving towards painting larger paintings for sale as they give me so much fun. You really feel like you are sucked into the paintings when you stand in front of them, especially the sunsets. This winter will see my first large skiing and snowboarding paintings released for sale. Most of the ski paintings for sale over the last few years have been small and make great collections for the wall. This year I will take on the challenge to make a very big ski painting for the wall. Check out the facebook page or the blog this winter for more paintings for sale as they are released.
Pete Caswell’s Paintings For Sale, Style and Brush Strokes.
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.
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“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
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
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
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
As One Paintings gets shipped out so another is just about ready. The large sunset painting on the wall of the studio is all complete and framed up ready for everyone to have a look at it. It is 1.5m wide by 1.0m high and framed with a high quality just off white block frame. Its about the same size as the one in the box ready to ship which you can see in the photo. The price of £750 includes shipping in the UK and parts of Europe and the frame. If you are interested in commissioning a large painting email Pete. This painting has been specially created to give you a bright and happy feeling with the sun and light drawing you into the centre of the painting, using a combination of colour and light to give you an uplifting effect.
This sunset painting is based on a West coast sunset from North Devon UK near the studio. The studio is very near to the ocean which lends a big influence to the paintings. Every day I cycle into the rising sun in the morning and the setting sun on the headland on the way to the studio to paint. This constant exposure to the sunsets and sun rises over the ocean lends itself beautifully to these large sunset oil paintings.
I use bold colour to its utmost to fill the paintings with a sense of joy and light. Combinations of bright colours in their pure form create vibrant memorable images. Pinks turquoises, blues and yellows work to construct an impression of the scene which captures not just the visual but much of the joy, energy and feelings to captivate the viewer. These large paintings are becoming a popular choice for collectors of art and paintings around the world.
Spring meadows at the art studio not far from saunton Beach
This new paintings for sale blog is where you will find all of the new paintings for sale as they are released and information about all of the paintings you can buy on the web site. Check out all the large and colourful oil paintings for sale as they are painted. The blog is split into 4 catagories;
New Painting For Sale – where you can find the new paintngs for sale as they are released and stories about ehir creation.
About the Paintings – information and stories about Pete’s art work, style and paintings
Skiing and Snowboard Paintings – During the Ski Snowboard season Pete focusses on painting the ski resorts and slope of Europe and here you can see the new ski / snowboard paintings, trips and resorts Pete will be painting during the season
Press Releases and Stores. If you want an article to feature Pete Caswell in the press, web site or blogg, these are copy free and you can obtain jpgs of his paintings by email request.
Every painting has a story and achieves an effect. Read all about your favourite oil paintings on the blog and find out what makes them work and what makes them happy. Built into each painting are subtle techniques to make your day happier and more uplifting. They raise you spirits and make you feel good.
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Painting in the sun again. Can’t wait for summer again.
