Abstract Landscape Painting - Over Hill and Dale

Over Hill and Dale

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting reminds me of my time in Ireland.  I had never seen such hilly country before.  And the roads through those hills were so windy and narrow that you really had to pay attention to where you were going.  Stops were frequently made to take photographs and allow livestock, mostly sheep, to cross the road.

It was late fall when we took a drive through the north country and over to Gallway in the west.  The bracken that covered the hills was a dark rusty red against a multitude of greens.  What a beautiful place, wild and windswept.  It was important for me to live for a time in the land of my ancestors, to walk the land they farmed and breathe the same sea air.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - The Dream

The Dream

20x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

I believe there is a landscape in all of us, a place we go when we go inward to reflect.  It could be the landscape of your childhood home, or a grandparents farm.  Mine is a field.  

I grew up with this field, so it has many incarnations, many moods and changes through many years and seasons of weather.  Sometimes I dream of fields where I can see for vast distances.  And sometimes I paint fields from memory, from dreams.  This is one of those paintings. 

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Abstract Landscape Painting - After the Rain

After the Rain

8x8 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is the second mini abstract landscape painting to arrive in my shop.  I don't always know what they're going to be when I start, but there are guidelines.  

Lately I've been obsessed with water, any kind of water, lake, sea, or ocean, and horizon lines involving water.  So there's always some kind of sky, some kind of foreground, and you guessed it, a water line creating a horizon.

Then I play with it, thinking of all the watery places I've been.

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Huge Abstract Painting - Night and Day

Night and Day

30x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This huge abstract painting is a little more abstract than usual for me.  I've been painting every day for the past week and a half and have been thoroughly enjoying it.  It seems whenever I have time to squeeze a lot of work into a small period of time, I become more free with the process, and experiment more.

Seeing that I am self-taught, every painting is a learning ground, and that's what keeps me interested.  Last night I fell asleep thinking about all the different colour combinations I wanted to try.  Oddly enough, this wasn't one of them.  Abstracts, more so than traditional landscape paintings, seem to have a life of their own.  And it's my job as an artist to help it find its way.

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Huge Abstract Painting - Earth Song

Earth Song

30x30 inches, acrylic on canvas

Earth Song seemed like an appropriate name for this huge abstract painting because of all the warm earth tones.  To me this seems like a pre-dawn landscape.  There's a glimmer of sun on the horizon giving everything a golden glow, yet the sun has not yet made an appearance.  It seems to me so quiet and peaceful.  I can almost feel the cool air on my skin.

Along with my love of landscape, comes a love of weather, of changing seasons, and times of day.  To capture the mood of a place is something I always strive for; it's what makes painting worthwhile.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Telegraph

Telegraph

12x12 inches, acrylic on canvas

Now you might be thinking Telegraph is an unusual name of this abstract landscape painting.  And you might be right.  However, when I was painting it, the colour combination somehow reminded me of old photographs of the Canadian prairies, which led to the thought of the vastness of the prairies and how once upon a time communication across vast distances were sent via telegraph.  A bit of a stretch, I know.  But that's how things sometimes work out.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Interferance

Interferance

12x16 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting is based on a similar colour palette to Car Ride.  I really enjoyed working with those colours and the sense of distance I think I achieved in both paintings.  

The name for this one came to me while working on the 'sky' section of the piece.  For some reason the colours and the patterns of the strokes reminded me of storms that cause great interferance with electrical devices.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Car Ride

Car Ride

16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas

In keeping with yesterday's post about naming paintings, the name for this particular abstract landscape painting came to me mid-stream.  A bit of an unusual name, that somehow seems to work.  

Growing up, my family often went on long car trips for summer vacation.  I remember sitting in the backseat with my head against the window, watching the landscape whizz by in a blur as we pulled our camper trailer all over Canada.  This painting, and it's blurred lines, somehow reminds me of these trips.  Perhaps this is where my love of abstracting the landscape began... 

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Brush Fire

Brush Fire

16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas

Something new from the studio!  It's been a while since I painted.  Sometimes life has other plans for me.  However, I'm happy to announce that I have three new paintings to share with you that I will be posting over the next few days.  Today, I will start with this new abstract landscape painting 'Brush Fire'.

I rarely have a plan when I start to paint, mostly I just want to put colour to canvas, and I choose colours based on how I'm feeling at the moment.  So what comes as a result of layers and layers of colour and texture is always a surprise to me.  Sometimes a title will come mid-stream, sometimes it takes hours, even days, before a painting is named.  Today, however, the title was immediate upon completion.  With such a burning orange swath running through the middle, Brush Fire seemed an appropriate choice.

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Abstract Landscape Painting: Lake Weather

Lake Weather

16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is an abstract landscape painting of a stormy sky over a lake that I painted on my birthday this week.  I always seem to paint something interesting on my birthday, or on the day before or after.  It's as if a certain, more creative or free energy, is available to me at that period of time.  So I love to experiment with that energy to see what emerges.

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