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Landscape Paintings and Drawings:  Vivien Blackburn   plein air  paintings  of Leicestershire and elsewhere in oil, watercolour, charcoal, pencil and mixed media and in the studio  on large oil paintings on canvas that becomed more abstract or pastel on paper; the play of light on the landscape and the changes with time of day and season are an endless fascination.  The 'bones' of the land beneath the covering of plants and soil interest me, rolling hills or dunes, sharp rocks and scree, the colours and light changing with the seasons and the underlying form and sweep of the land.

 

'The images are exciting and unpretentious, deliberately avoiding the picturesque'  

Leslie Goodwin, Leicester Mercury Art Critic

 

please note that all work is protected by copyright

fields and birches pastel 10 in square
oil on canvas 4ft 6in square
allotments
sunset oil on canvs 12 in square
trees, rocks, snow   40 inch square mixed media on canvas
oil on canvas 12 in sq
pastel. 10 in sq
birches approx 48in tall
pastel 10 in sq