Bristol Harbour
I have called this Bristol Harbour; the initial drawings being made along Museum Street and Wapping Wharf.
I was particularly caught by the relationship between these three boats, their different and individual components. Played off against these foreground elements was the backdrop of Hanover Quay, its commercial buildings, blocks of flats and moored canal boats. The foreground and the backdrop being linked by the water, slightly riffled by a gentle north westerly wind.
There were people working on the rigging of one of the boats, and I did draw them but chose to exclude them as I feel that if I include people, they become the focus for the viewer, not the whole composition.
One of my influences was the 2018 exhibition America’s Cool Modernists held at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. The precision I tried to get in this painting is an homage to that exhibition.
I loved the crispness of the lines of these boats played off against the fluidity of the water.
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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.
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Bristol Harbour - 2020
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| Medium: Acrylic on canvas | ||
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