Great feature in Walesonline and the Western Mail today on how art therapy is helping me to recover from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how painting still helps me therapeutically today. I do not know where I would be if it was not for art and painting. Also I…
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…
This oil painting has fittingly gone to live in this Parish Chapel, St Davids Priory, Swansea, with Canon Flook.
Just donated this painting “Up Llandeilo Way” to the annual Shelter Cymru Art Auctions, this painting will be auctioned Friday 25th September 2015 – Pier Pavilion, Penarth. A great cause to support as always. http://sheltercymru.org.uk/…/fundra…/take-part/art-auctions/
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.
