New Sunset paintings for this season are looking really stunning.
All the colours and warmth of those amazing West Coast Sunsets
Add some colour to your room with these stunning semi abstract sunset paintings by Pete Caswell from all around the globe.
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.
Sunset paintings for sale
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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.
Skiing Snowboarding paintings for sale.
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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.
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The new collection of gold leaf paintings are now complete. They are a really beautiful set of oil paintings. The sunsets are based round a really rich colour scheme of ultramarine blue, Prussian blue deep red and cadmium yellow. The central feature of these paintings is the light in the centre which draws you into the paintings. The gold and silver adds another dimension to the paintings by reflecting the light down the middle of the canvas. As you walk past the painting or view it from different angles the reflection changes and it alters the depths of colours creating a moving and changing scene from every angle. I have released some of the paintings for sale and the remaining 3 will be released over the coming weeks.
Most of the paintings are on block canvas 80cm x 80cm with one large on e at 120cm x 120cm and the London one 120cm x 60cm framed on board.
You can buy these paintings at Gold Leaf Paintings For Sale
If you’ve got a touch of the winter blues check out this short video of a summer visit to the art studio and grounds including the stunning nearby coast. Beautiful sunsets and memories or summer. It cheered me up no end, try it out. Nice music too!
Stunning video includes some great shots of saunton and Croyde beaches, sunsets and glistening light. It shows a few areas of the studio where I love to paint, the fields, meadows and horses on the land around the studio. Full of the inspiration of a sunny day.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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 .
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.
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.
