Paintings of Old Hunstanton to Wells next the Sea: Vivien Blackburn
Paintings of Norfolk: I work plein air a great deal, usually in oil paints though sometimes in watercolour / mixed media, charcoal or pen and wash. These sketches often become finished pieces in their own right but their primary concern is to get to know a place, to observe the particular colours and light of a day, time or season.
Light and colour change rapidly and the tide ebbs and flows leavng glistening pools. Sometimes the colours are muted and subtle, particularly in the winter - lavenders, greys, slate blues - another time the sky and the sea will be intensely blue and the sand looking almost apricot.
I then work in the studio, developing larger canvasses, paintings or prints and often abstracting and playing with colours to enhance the sense of time and place. I really enjoy working on large canvasses with room to develop a painting.
Where images are small they have frequently been done plein air, larger pieces are studio based.
copyright Vivien Blackburn
