The summer is drawing to an end and the crowds are heading home and North Devon takes a relaxing deep breath as quieter times lie ahead. You can take a beautiful relaxing autumn break in our Gallery Lodges and admire some of the paintings in the Flesh. We have some dates still available in October and November.
Sunset Paintings For Sale at the Gallery Lodges
Check out the Lodges and some of the amazing food on offer in North Devon. My tip is to bring a bike and take in some of the amazing bike rides in the area. Mountain bikes are ideal as you can include some beach rides (with a swim at the end), but there are also some great road circuits. www.thegallerylodges.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/thegallerylodges/
It’s a real treat to see the paintings in front of you in the Lodges and in the Art studio and take in all that amazing vibrant colour.
Sailing Sunset Paintings For Sale at the Gallery Lodges
My attention is now starting to turn to the ski season which is now within sight. But before then I will be treating you to some of this seasons favourite Sunsets, Surfing and Sailing paintings.
We have had a super summer with lots of surfing and lazing. Cycle rides through the dunes to take a swim at the near deserted end of Saunton beach have been a real favourite. Its not too late for a swim, with the water staying beautiful and warm for another couple of Months.
Sailing Sunset Paintings For Sale at the Gallery Lodges
The main Art Studio will start changing the display to the Ski Art in October while the Lodges will keep hold of the summer sunsets until the end of October.
Large Colourful Paintings For Sale of Sunsets and Skiing
New Large Sunset paintings for sale. Part of the new collection for this summer of sunset paintings from Croyde, Saunton and Woolacombe. Warm colours and vibrant texture.
Now the summer sunset paintings collection is finished its back to winter working on Meribel, Courchevel, Zermatt, Verbier, Tignes and Val D’Isere skiing and snowboarding paintings ready for the autumn exhibition here at the new Gallery Lodges.
Got a few spaces left in August for short breaks at the Gallery Lodges if you want to see the new paintings before the crowds. www.facebook.com/thegallerylodges
New luxury gallery lodges at Braunton near to Saunton. Modeled on a luxury Hotel Suite in a garden setting these lodges are beautiful and modern with a crisp architectural design.
Paintings on display at The Gallery Lodges
All this space to display all the paintings from this season. Colourful sunsets and yacht paintings. The third lodge will be the ski lodge displaying the seasons ski paintings. Where else can you go in the middle of summer and feel like you are skiing?
Not complete yet, but nearly Lodge no 1 ready in April
A new development at Pete Caswell’s Art Gallery in Braunton are three new luxury Art Gallery Lodges located in the fields surrounding the art studio. Brand new for the 2015 season. Completion May 2015. Photos of unit one completed interior due end March.
These Lodges have been beautifully designed and custom built specifically to house some of Pete Caswell’s colection of art work. Enjoy staying in the beautiful location in these luxury lodges whilst enjoying Pete’s art.
Full of life and colour. Sea breezes and sea light fill the air. Each lodge is modern and contemporary, adorned with some of Pete Caswell’s famous art work, paintings and sculpture. With cedar cladding, zinc roofs and floor to ceiling aluminium windows these custom made lodges look modern and striking. Inside there are timber floors, marble bathrooms, underfloor heating and original art by Pete Caswell.
Pete Caswell’s art studio is set in 7 acres of grass land which becomes wild flower meadows and horse paddocks in the summer . If you are lucky you will catch a glimpse through the trees of the adjoining nature reserve and SSSI ancient woodland beyond. Past the nature reserves and fields is the UNESCO Braunton Biosphere about half a mile away, a picturesque area of the Braunton Marshes and largest sand dune complex in Europe. When the surf is up the air is filled with the sound of the waves as the rumble rolls over the dunes towards the fields.
Ready in time for May half term, lodges 2 and 3
The units are for adults only over 21 years of age including guests. We do not allow group bookings or more than two persons per lodge. This is a quiet place to enjoy the beauty of the surrounding countryside. It is not suitable for noisy guests, parties, excessive drinking or family gatherings. We like is this way so please help us to maintain the peaceful atmosphere of the site. If you wish to have guests visit please be considerate of others. All guests must leave the property by 10pm and must park in the guest area provided, not outside the lodge. Each lodge has parking for one car only. No pets what so ever. The gallery lodges are in the countryside and we do recomend you bring a tourch for your walk back from the pub.
If you are a family wishing to visit you can stay at our holiday house at Croyde www.croydeholidayhouse.co.uk
quality hard wood decking area
Each unit is set in a spacious plot with views over the fields. Facing directly South with large french doors and windows you can make the most of the lovely sea light. Highly insulated with wood floors and underfloor heating they make for a cosy stay out of main season. The bedrooms feature a king size bed with a view through floor to ceiling windows across the fields. There is a lounge next to the bedroom with a small kitchen area with electric twin hob, small sink and fridge. The contemporary bathrooms are lovely and spacious with ceramic timber on the floor and marble on the walls with underfloor heating and walk in shower.
Outside is a spacious hardwood deck area with partial shade sail cover. Parking is outside each unit for one normal size car. For oversize vehicles there is a parking area 30m away.
One of the units has been designed as particularly helpful for the older or more infirm guest with ramp access and support rails in the bathroom. This unit is also suitable for wheel chair / disabled access, but please see the notes on this to check it is fully suitable before you book. All the units have level floor access inside but only one has ramp access to the decks. The other two units have 2 shallow steps to the deck area which accesses the building. Access into Braunton is 3/4 mile via a level footpath. You have 100m of lane access without footpath directly from the site before you reach the main road. There is a regular bus service across the main road from the units.
Cedar clad, lovely big floor to cieling windows. Zinc roof.
The area is very well suited to cycles with some great routes from the accommodation, along the coastal cycle path and to the beaches of the area. Braunton is easy to access, only a 3/4 mile level walk and has a great selection of cafes, pubs and restaurants. adjoining the land is a regular bus stop which will take you to Saunton beach, Croyde beach, Barnstaple, Bideford and with connections at Braunton to Ilfracombe, or from Barnstaple to many other areas.
The Gallery Lodges are inbetween Saunton and Braunton, near to both the village of Braunton and the beaches of Saunton and Croyde. The site is just off the Saunton Road on the outskirts of Braunton on the way to Saunton andCroyde.
Note while we are near the the coast and dunes access to the sea is by car/ bike or bus. Saunton Beach is1.5 miles. The best beach to walk to is a lovely walk down the lanes and accross the dunes to a deserted stretch of Saunton Sands Beach 1.5 miles along the lanes, about 30 min walk and then about 30 mins throught the Unesco Dunes to the Beach. You can make a loop out of this walk .
Take a look at the video from last summmer of Pete’s art studio and the surroundings to get a feel for whats in store.
The site is near to the ocean and has a wonderful ocean light and in summer the fields are brimming with wild flowers. The nearest beaches are close by at Saunton (1.5 miles) and Croyde. You can also access the beach over the sand dunes by parking in the Sandy Lane car park (1miles) which is nearby or the car park at Saunton Sands Beach 1.5 miles along the road. There is a very efficient bus service 200m from the site which will take you to all the nearby beaches & places of interest. While the beach is about 1.5 miles away, it is not advisable to walk there from the site. The site is near to the art studio of popular local artist and author Pete Caswell. View Pete Caswell’s paintings for sale
DIRECTION TIP – DO NOT RELY ON THE SAT NAV it can misdirect you. Print the map out.
Contact Pete
At Braunton traffic lights turn left (if coming from Barnstaple) onto B3231 to Saunton & Croyde. After 3/4mile turn left down Moor Lane at sign post (on other side of road) Moor Lane Nursery, then only 100m, 1st entrance on right with gravel drive.
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I love Tignes and Val d’Isere ski area. It is awesome and unforgettable. My very first skiing and snowboard paintings were based on this huge ski area and I have been returning to this area as my main motif ever since. This painting is a real beauty setting off from the top of the Grande Motte cable car with wind blown snow whistling around your ankles.
Grande Motte, top of Glacier piste setting off to ski the gacier skiing snowboard painting
The cable car terminal is a photographers delight and I have recently made a short film about this special destination which will be released soon. The Glacier itself is a perfect gradient and the snow conditions are often perfect with the peak acting as a bit of a powder magnet.
The Grande Motte glacier is one of my favourite places in the world. Arriving at the top of the funicular for the first coffee of the morning is unforgettable and the place I always start on Christmas morning skiing. Then onto the top of the glacier via the Grande Motte cable car. The top of this cable car is very special to me. I find it an extreme and exciting place, right next to the peak of Grand Motte towering above with views spanning out in every direction.
Top of Funicular Grande Motte Tignes. Snowboarding skiing paintings for sale
This is one of the most classic ski paintings I have done. sat at the cafe at the top of the Funicular at Tignes with my morning coffee painting the skiers and snowboarders as they race towards the first run of the day or catch the first cable car. The line of skiers racing past with the cool ski instructor in red just chilling having seen this over eager race for season after season.
Top of Henri piste at Tignes & Val d’Isere ski painting
Top of the Henri piste at Tignes and Val d’isere has been quite a subject for me with the Tufs chair lift overhead and the piste seeming to disappear into the sky in the ever expanding distance. It always raises the thought in me as I stop at the edge of the piste to check out the off piste drop to paranoid piste. So wonderful and fun with the steep descent opening into a beautiful powder field and then opening to a full speed blast across the lower slopes. But watch out for the unexpected lips of powder dropping into shallow bowls.
Check out the video below of some skiing and snowboarding in Tignes and Val d’Isere and some of the paintings of these famous pistes and lifts. And see why you have to be careful on the off piste descent from top of Henri piste.
Large Gold Leaf Ocean Sunset Oil Painting For Sale
“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.
Croyde Sunset painting for sale
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.
Aiguille du midi Chamonix ski snowboard large painting for sale
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.
London Thames gold leaf large oil painting for sale. Southwark Bridge
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.
Sunset in the waves at Saunton Sands beach painting for sale
Chamonix Mt Blanc the Aiguille Du Midi and Vallee Blanche 3842m
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.
Aiguille du Midi Chamonix ski snowboard large painting for sale
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.
Aiguille Du Midi descent on Mt Blanc at Chamonix and the Vallee Blanche Oil painting For Sale
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 Chamonix and Vallee Blanche ski snowboard large painting for sale
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.
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.
