ArtEImage - Landscapes

Landscape Pictures by Richard Young

Rome

Roman ruins are fascinating, imagining people 2000 years or so ago enjoying the sunshine just as I did when I stood next to the ruins in Rome. In the late summer evenings, the traffic noise calms down and the flood lights that the city place provide interesting shadows and colours on the columns of the ruins.

2000
23x31cm HP Arches
Mixed media
(watercolour, gouache, wax crayon)

Sanctus

In 1995, I visited South Australia where I grew up. North of Clare, traveling towards the Flinders Ranges, I came over the hill and entered a large valley with a wheat field on the plain at the bottom. This image is the reoccurring memory of this day, hot and windless.

23x31cm Rough Arches
Watercolour

The vinyards of Cognac

Traveling to Cognac is a wonderful sight, repeating patterns of vines reaching into the distance. This is late evening following a fairly heavy thunderstorm that left the evening air clean and the sunset very yellow.

1998
46x33cm Canvas board Acrylic

Bouches des Rhône

The colour of the Med is so profoundly blue in the southern light. I had been in Marseille where there was an exhibition of artists that regularly used to holiday in the area in the 20's and 30's (Matisse, Picasso etc). We took the boat out to the island in the bay and this is the view towards Hyeres.

1994
23x31cm HP Arches
Mixed media
(watercolour, conte)

North West Wiltshire

I love the division between the inactivity above the horizon and the activity below the horizon especially near the end of the day when the clouds disappear and the heat of summer is still present.

c20x15cm HP Arches
Watercolour

Bath, The Royal Crescent

The historic Royal Crescent at Bath is painted and photographed by tourists at all times of the year. A small group of artists who studied at Queen's Road in Bristol met at the end of the academic season on Thursday evenings and did landscapes. This image is one of three executed. It has the quality of an oil and a lovely textured surface.

1997
10x12" Acrylic on canvas

Cornwall Coast

Richard Parkes Bonington had been central in my mind when I was painting this image. Often Bonington places a hard horizon and paints using Paynes Grey and a mauve violet. The rough paper and the absorbency of the paper sort of excited me. In the end, the painting has many opens where no paint is used.

23x31cm Rough Arches
Watercolour

Tetbury

Tetbury is a lovely Cotswold market town. Artists have portrayed the town as tourists see it. Could I challenge the traditional view? I recalled Piper's images of historic churches and cathedrals that eventually must derive from the colour beginnings of JMW Turner.
1996

23x31cm HP Arches
Watercolour