oils on linen
Framed: 113 x 103 x 4cm
"Ceunant" in Welsh. Slate mining has left vast chasms inside the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia). From the 19th century, miners used to blast out huge slabs of slate inside the mountains. All of the awesome fire and danger of that industry now abandoned to the underworld, stilled now to drips of water and echoes.
Original oil SOLD.
(Available as giclée print or greeting card)
Bardo
Oils on linen.
125cm x 115 cm. Unframed.
2020
My despairing response to Covid 19 which was raging in 2020 when this was painted.
No longer available.
Tintinnabuli
Oils on Canvas
100cm x 90cm unframed
2019
Inspired by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's sublime "Tabula Rasa".
No longer available
Breathing
oils on linen
100cm x 90cm unframed
2020
Meditation on trying to breathe, trying to survive Covid 19
No longer available
Hawthorn White
oils on linen
Framed: 113 x 103 x 4cm
2022
A poem by Charles Causley. Causley a solitary man and lifelong resident of Launceston, Cornwall wrote this poem musing as an older man on his lot.
After visiting his humble house "Cypress Well" one rainy dark winters afternoon. I sat on the floor beside his desk, typewriter, books, chair, and piano and I was overwhelmed by a sense of sadness but also the beauty in his eye as he dwelt on the passing of time.
Original oil SOLD
(Available as giclée print or greeting card)
Rhapsody ( Song for Ukraine )
Oils on linen
103 x 113 x 4cm framed
2022.
I felt compelled to register, in my own way, the eruption of mad violence upon this vast country and its proud folk. Amidst war and gunshot fracturing this land's every fibre, I have discovered its beauty and strength. A blue and gold flag morphs into a juice-green rhapsody which soars out above the guns and I suddenly hear the sound of a simple lyre, like a blackbird's early morning song.
Original oil SOLD
( Available as giclée print or greeting card)
Estuary
oils on linen
2019
103cm x 113cm signed and framed.
Travelling from Machynlleth to Aberdyfi the road twists and turns, clinging to the very edges of cliffs which reveal sudden breath-taking elevations beside the Dyfi. Eventually you emerge into a scrambled together stretched seaside village that blinks out over a sandbank strewn estuary and the searing white light of the Celtic Sea, full of small bobbing fishing boats and crying gulls.
Original framed oil painting.
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(Also available as giclée print or greeting card )
Ffwrnais ( translation: Furnace )
oils on linen
2019
103 x 113 x 4 cm framed
A small bend in the road of a village near to the ancient town of Machynlleth. A massive 18th century waterwheel still attached to its crumbling building, which drips with fluorescent lichens and bleeding ores, orange and gold on grey stone. An adjacent waterfall thunders over huge boulders beside the structure.
Original oil SOLD
(Also available as giclée print or greeting card)
Inundation
oils on linen
2019
103 x113 x 4 cm
As flooding increases and the sheer uncertainty of living weighs heavy as an anchor on us all in Britain today - especially since Brexit - I felt compelled to convey my feelings of isolation, despair and inundation, while also maintaining the hope of sailing into calmer waters eventually. Life still thriving in the depths!
Original oil SOLD
( Available as giclée print and greeting card)
Mallwyd ( Rhiannon)
oils on linen
70cm x 70cm x 4cm (framed)
2019
In reality, a curious little hamlet in mid Wales nestling in the Dyfi Valley, where until very recently I lived and worked. Mallwyd translates as "The Grey Place". Here shown with the nearby River Dyfi roaring in terrifying spate, and Rhiannon, a wild spirit of Welsh mythology caught up in its violence and beauty.
Original oil painting now in the collection of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England.
( Available as giclée print or greeting card)
Braich Goch
oils on linen
113cm x 103cm x 4cm signed and framed
2019
The title Braich Goch can literally be translated as Red Arm. It is the name of an old slate mine seam/complex in mid and north Wales, particularly the around the area of Corris. It has left a beautiful devastation on the landscape. You feel at once inside and outside the mountains. They are now carpeted in rich green lichens and gleaming turquoise slabs lying in the Welsh drizzle and moss, with the constant noise of thundering water somewhere...
Original oil painting (framed) available to view and purchase from: Dyfi Antiques, 14, Pentrerhedyn Street,Machynlleth, Powys, Cymru SY20 8DN (t: 01654 703209/07852 266227, email: angelahustings@live.co.uk
(Also available as giclée print and greeting card)
The Mind's Eye
oils on linen
90cm x 100cm x 4cm
2023
Original oil painting SOLD.
( Available as giclée print and greeting card)
Desciption: Purely a meditation on loving kindness.
Pump V
oils on linen
90cm x 100cm x 4cm
2019
Original framed oil painting.
( Available as giclée print and greeting card)
Description: Memories and atmospheric residues from my time as Artist in Residence to the magnificent Coventry Cathedral. When the sun shines through the stained glass, it fractures into shimmering kaleidoscope colours across the vast dark smooth floor, an elevating spiritual experience in itself.
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Roughtor
500mm x 600mm (unframed)
oils on linen
2024
POA
Afon Dyfi at Mallwyd
oil on linen
90cm x 100cm x 4cm
2018
SOLD.
( available as giclée print and greeting card )
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I am known to specialise in portraiture. I really enjoy meeting the subject and discussing their requirements and wishes. It is quite an intimate acquaintance as an oil painting must reflect the personality and history of the subject, so I will ask quite a lot about you and take heaps of photographs of you from all angles. I work from photographs but I like to build up a good acquaintance with the sitter. A portrait is after all a permanent remembrance of you! Painted in oils on Italian linen it will actually last for centuries ...to pass down the generations unchanged.
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Portrait depicted:
Horticulturist Lisa Cunningham - Allsop
oils on linen. 2018.
Approx 70cm x 70cm.
Portrait of a horticulturist friend.
The background blooms are abstracted blue hydrangea, Lisa's favourite flowers.
In the sitter's private collection.
Boom & Bust
oils on linen
100 cm x 110 cm (approx)
2008
Luthier and musician Michael Burnham
Musician and songwriter Dave Swarbrick
Coventry Cathedrals ( Jubilee 2012)
Framed original oil on canvas 30" x 40" ( + 3.5 cm frame depth ) was painted as part of the Artist in Residence to Coventry Cathedral appointment in 2012 ( actually completed in 2014). I was very moved by the procession of dignitaries on the 50th anniversary, when the Cathedral hosted Anne, Princess Royal, and the Archbishop of Canterbury ( at that time) Dr. Rowan Williams plus he Dean and Canons of Coventry. The old and the new cathedrals are woven into each other and the midday light was almost fluorescent inside the packed congregation on rows and rows of seats. The procession was like a moving train through my half closed eyes and the pounding organ music added mightily to awesome effect.
Original Oil £1200
( available as giclée print and greeting card )
Blodauwedd
oils on linen.
2018
(Available as giclée print and greeting card)
Original painting no longer available
Blodauwedd from Welsh Myth associated with oak flowers, broom and meadowsweet.
The Consultation
oils on linen
2010
Mr William S. Lund ENT surgeon. M.S. FRCS.
Dave Swarbrick musician ( Violin, Viola, Mandolin), songwriter.
member of Fairport Convention 1969 - 1999
'Gentle Jane'
Oils on linen
60cm x 70cm x 4cm
Private commission
Roughtor
oils on linen
500mm x 600mm
2024
Jazzbirds
oils on canvas.
Available as giclée print and greeting card
Or printed to order on tshirts, pens, tote bags etc.
Original painting SOLD