Bristol Boat Yard
The boat yard looms above the quays where narrow boats, leisure craft and other vessels are moored. Just poking above the yard are the masts of the SS Great Britain.
The composition has three contrasting but connected layers. What caught my eye first was the huge shed and masts protruding into the sky, punctuating the space.
Below that there are the boats up on dry land surrounded by all the detritus of a busy boat yard. Then as a space of visual quietness are the quaysides with the moored boats reflected in the glassy water.
The masts and crane particularly attracted me as symbols of past and present marine activity.
The angles that the canal boats made, with their windows and rails, made a strong geometric grounding for the painting.
Pete Newell talks about his paintings discussing his methodology, composition and process.
Pete's paintings are all made using good quality acrylics on professional standard linen or cotton canvases such as those by Winsor and Newton. They have warp resistant kiln-dried, bevelled solid pine stretcher bars. The canvases are archival and acid free. Each painting is varnished with appropriate acrylic varnish and simply framed by Pete. The frames are easily removed if a purchaser wishes to re-frame a painting.
The paintings on this website are all nautical or maritime in their subject matter. Pete does have paintings embracing other subjects and he can show you these using either Google Meet, Zoom or WhatsApp.
His paintings are all for sale. Selling is an interesting point for artists. Pete's belief is that "painting is communication and that to complete the creative circle one's art needs to have an audience to communicate to." The act of selling is to complete that creative circle.
Bristol Boat Yard - 2020
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