Autumn Storms and Sunshine

I had a lovely walk yesterday walking in the fields, between the rain storms and high wind flying. The colour of the clouds on either side were in stark contrast to each other, with rain pouring out of the sky, as well as rainbows lifting up from the ground.

 

the orange of the reflected light is really beautiful, and reflecting off the trees brings out so much of the contrasting colours.

its a part of the country I really enjoy and its calm and quietness are what I look forward to getting back home to

 Graffitti

As you know, I like nice graffiti that I see when Im walking about new places, and I was in Cambridge recently and say this on a wall

its not spectacularly beautiful, or intricate or anything. It's just nice to see on my walk and so I took the photo.  It's nice it hasn't been tagged by anyone else as yet, but sure that won't take too long before it is.

there are others Ill add at another time, but this is nice

 Website

Just launched a first cut website at

https://www.ianhammondart.co.uk

Have a look and if you like, they're for sale via the Etsy site

 New Listings on Etsy and on Instagram

If you get the chance, have a look at my new postings on Instagram, which are also for sale on Etsy

  

My Instagram site is :  https://www.instagram.com/ian_hammond_artist 

My Etsy site is: https://www.etsy.com/shop/IanHammondArt

 Inspiration

I went walking in the fields yesterday and loved the feeling of the wind hitting my face, feeling the earlier night closing in, whilst the birds made their calls interspersed with the sounds of owls hunting, swooshing across the fields in a blur of brown and white

These photos don't do it justice. They don't quite show how big the sky is, how wide the horizon is

I loved it and I hope you do too.

Such a lovely country

 Swirls

So yesterday i decided to try something abstract but different to the sort of thing I’ve been doing for a while.

I had in my mind something like flowing streams of light coming up from below and towards the top of the canvas.

So this is how it started

I didn't like it so started playing with colours

which ended like this

I quite like it. ill leave it for a while and see if I like it in a week or so.

 Current Work

It’s been nice doing some new work, in a very abstract type of painting.  There’s been lots going on in the last few years and this sort of depicts some of that, not explicitly but there are some bits to it

The inspiration was this picture I took

 and it changed from day to day in the following way as I played with colour and especially texture of layers and layers of paint.

I was trying to bring out things from the last 5-10 years in the painting and I think I did