Plein Air painting still alive – Ray Atkins
As a fan of George Rowlett I found my way to the website of the London Artspace Gallery some years ago. I want to point out to a marvelous online catalogue the gallery put up to feature the painter Ray Atkins. Plein air painting is alive still! Here is the link to Ray Atkins, The long view, have fun with looking and reading. Mr. Atkins is in his early seventies now. Anyone who has ever tried seriously his/her hands on painting plein air in oil colours knows what that means.
The urban landscape below, one of my oil paintings, was not painted on site, but from a photograph taken in the suburbs of the city of Dresden. The format is ca. 70X100 cm. In order to loosen up I turned the photograph by 180° and painted while seeing the subject upside down.
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on 16. July 2011
Thankyou so much for this wonderful, unusual link. I’d never heard of Ray Atkins – but am very much a fan now. I’m amazed at all the equipment he takes outside. Does he have a van parked nearby I wonder?
I also like your work – its such a good idea to use a photo this way – I’d never thought of it.
on 18. July 2011
Hello Bridget
I suppose he must have a vehicle for transportation near by. I find it motivating to see such genuine and powerful approaches to landscape painting.