Underfalls Yard Bristol
Underfalls Yard is at the western end of Bristol’s Dock basin. An area of quays, Jetties, boats in all forms of repair, some chocked up on land.
This painting was made from drawings that I did looking into one of the large sheds where several boats were under repair. I was fascinated by the challenge of perspective and textures provided by the myriad of equipment and materials. From the drawings I moved objects around in the composition to present a tighter series of relationships.
There were people working in the shed, I excluded them as I feel that if my paintings include people, they become the focus for the viewer, not the whole composition. I do not avoid people for technical reasons, I worked as a figurative sculptor for twenty years.
This view is the far end of the boat workshop, all the tins, timber, ladders, shelving form a busy backdrop to the main components of the painting.
This ladder was much further inside the shed when I made my initial drawings. I tried it out in several locations until finally settling for the position seen in the painting, I think it makes for an interesting break to the surface of the ferry.
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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.
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.
Underfalls Yard Bristol - 2021
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