A new oil painting “Over the Bridge to Parkmill” “This is another form the Ilston Cwn series of expressionist, “refractionist” paintings. This bridge has featured before in the best selling “Bridge series” from 2014. This time I have painted the bridge from a different perspective rather than “head…
This is an oil painting of the Table Mountain in Mid Wales. I painted this because I loved the colours of blues, turquoise and purple which blend pleasingly with the blue-greens and terracottas of the trees and land. Nature unearths such lovely rich colours and casts them wide in…
A selection of some other limited edition Giclee prints which will be for sale (mounted and wrapped) at Brynmill Park – at the Kiosk stall from now on with postcards and greeting cards also available soon – A4 size prints are £35, A3 are £49
I have just sold this mounted Giclee print to a lovely couple who run the excellent kiosk in Brynmill Park, Swansea which also is the subject of this painting/print – they also kindly asked me to join them tomorrow on their stall by the kiosk, which is very…
Delighted to have been Chosen as a Top Ten Artist For August on Artfinder!!
Delighted to say I have just SOLD “Ilston Brook” directly via my Art Gallery, the “Back Lane Gallery” here in Brynmill Swansea (the lane is the opposite the Rhyddings Pub.) This oil painting was SOLD to a lovely art collector who visited from Cardiff and had a private…
Delighted to say I have just this original oil painting “Wind Bunched Daisies” via Artfinder – https://www.artfinder.com/product/wind-buched-daisies/ This is one of ten flower paintings in my “In Bloom” 30% off sale on Artfinder ! Sale runs for another 11 days! https://www.artfinder.com/artist/emma-cownie/sale/
Transforming an art studio into an art gallery – I have recently put some curtains for privacy and a few picture hanging rails onto the white walls of my art studio and it has really transformed it from a studio into somewhere where one can view art, serving…
“Peter Pug” has left home to go and live with the newly weds Tasha and Adam Neil over in Coleraine, Northern Ireland – I am sure he will be very happy in his new home and family! 🙂 Here he is in Northern Ireland checking the place out,…
Here is my latest oil painting – “Tree by the Brook” – 60 x 80cm – £395. Email if interested in buying. This is the latest in a series of oil paintings, based loosely on my refractionist style, of a wood in an area of the Gower Peninsula…
David Fry
Why do the details matter? I have always had a fascination for the ordinary details that are easily overlooked. I want to convey what a scene looked like at that moment. Here I explain the inspiration behind my recent painting, “Near Dunmore Strand”.
I love old Donegal houses. I enjoy the old-style aesthetic. In Donegal, houses were whitewashed and woodwork was painted red. You still see a few houses like this. Sometimes you might see one with a thatched roof. Usually, their thatch has been replaced with tiled roofs.
Gola is a Donegal island I painted and thought about long before I set foot on its shores. I have written about it before here. Last month I was fortunate to visit it.
The journey to Arranmore is always a treat. The ferry is speedy. It takes not much more than 15 minutes to complete the three-mile journey. It provides a feast of inspiration for my work.
