Continually changing weather conditions this week at Hardy’s Bay. A working study in preparation for a larger painting. #landscapepainting #hardysbay #killcare #bayarea #bayside #winter #centralcoast #apaintedlandscape #trees #lookingbeyond #across the water #acrylic #workonpaper #abstract #abstraction #abstractart #mikestaniford
Track through to Box Head. Late afternoon light where the shadows unfold and the trees start to dance. #landscape #landscapeartist #apaintedlandscape #australianlandscape #lightshow #lateafternoon #shadowplay #shadows #shadowpaintings #landscapelover #reductive #shapes #composition #mikestaniford
Hardy’s Bay seen from the deck with a couple of initial sketches. Yes I decided to leave foreground trees out of the final picture and shifted my vantage point. #hardysbay #killcare #acrylic #onboard #bayarea #bayside #centralcoastnsw #abstracted #abstractart #abstractpainting #draw #drawings #jetties #boats #lightpatterns #onthewater #reductiveart #reductiveabstraction #mikestaniford
Editing to a few key components which I think in turn makes it an entity independent of an accurately portrayed view of the Hawke Head peninsula. #hawkehead #refigure #autonomous #independent #edited #reductive #perceived #acrylic #workonpaper #landscape #apaintedlandscape #landscapeart #mikestaniford
Palm tree variations. From charcoal to conte to sharpie. Simplification is the key. Go left hand, focus on the spaces in between, analyze the detail then reduce its complexity. #simplify #simplification #detail #shapes #abstracting #palmtrees #reductive #mixedmedia #steppingstone #observation #draw #drawing #drawdrawdraw #trunks #trees #mikestaniford
From the stockroom. Evening Promontary catches that time when one hill blazes with the last of the sun whilst the other plunges into shadow. Acrylic on board. 60 x 70cms. DM me if you are interested. #endofday #shadows #lighting #sunset #abstractart #abstractpainting #abstractartist #artbuyers #artcollectors #landscape #mikestaniford
Getting very reductive and selecting where and how the light falls. Transforming the landscape into a picture full of space and reverie. #landscape #landscapepainting #apaintedlandscape #space #reverie #poetry #reductive #process #acrylic #colourist #mikestaniford
Armchair Travelling and remembering afternoons making lemoncillo whilst staying in the Greek island of Kefalonia. I can smell those lemons now. Would love to be heading back to that magical island. #armchairtraveller #memories #kefalonia #fiskardo #lemoncillo #greekislands #watercolour #homemade #travellingartist #art #draw #drawing #draweachday #keepdrawing #staycurious #neverstoplooking #mikestaniford
North Sydney Ferry Wharf. Left handed sketches with a Sharpie pen. #fishermen #northsydney #ferrywharf #ferries #reflections #bollards #sunday #sundayvibes #sundayfunday☀️ #recreation #weekendvibes #weekendmood #draw #drawing #drawingsketch #drawingoftheday #blackandwhite #sharpiedrawing #mikestaniford
A work in progress from field studies (swipe through). In the bush, the spaces in between are just as important as the physical landscape elements themselves and the process of editing to the required few components becomes significant. #landscape #landscapepainting #tracks #bushland #apaintedlandscape #artistsoninstagram #artist #artcollections #landscapeart #painters #landscapelovers #abstract_art #abstraction #spirit #narrative #editing #autonomous #spiritofplace #simplification #reductivepainting #amplification #mikestaniford
Boats and jetty. #maritime #maritimeart #boats #boatsofinstagram #draw #drawing #drawdaily #drawingboats #atanchor #moorings #hardysbay #abstraction #abstractart #shapes #forms #composition #charcoal #charcoaldrawing #boatinglifestyle #jetty #jettyfishing #artistsoninstagram #mikestaniford
Abstraction allowing a free play of the elements of landscape. #abstraction #landscape #landscapepainting #spacesinbetween #colour #form #naturalelements balance #mikestaniford
Thrilled to be a finalist in the 2020 Pro Hart Outback Prize with DANCING SHADOWS. @brokenhillregionalartgallery www.bhartgallery.com.au opens on Friday 4 September. #ndhalagorge #outback #outbackaustralia #landscape #prohartoutbackartprize #brokenhill #finalist #gratitude
Reviewing some of my reference sources. A4 sketchbooks with all works in gouache. Painted quickly with the aim of capturing some spiritual element of the landscape for future use. From mangroves to coastal paths, from the lakes of NZ to rock pools. Stay curious. #sketchbooks #draw #drawing #referencematerial #observation #gouache #gouachepainting #sketching #spiritual #light #shadow #artist #artistsoninstagram #artistinaction #artistic #art #mikestaniford
Thought I had this one finished until I reviewed it again this morning. Part of my Hawke Head series, swipe for some of the details. Acrylic on board. 92 x 123cms. #landscape #landscapepainting #hawkehead #artisticworld #artoftheday #artsy #artistic #fineart #arts #artgallery #artcollector #artstudio #artlovers #artlife #traditionalartworks #landscapeartist #abstract #abstractart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #artworld #mikestaniford
The Road to the Farm, winging its way to a collector in the UK. Always good to know my work is going to a new home. #landscape #artists #artoftheday #artlivers #artcollectors #artcollective #artbuyer #artgallery #fineart #mikestaniford
Reviewing sketchbooks is always fun. These just a sample of lockdown drawings. #sketchbook #lockdown #draw #drawing #landscapes #draweachday #discipline #consciouseffort #observation #mikestaniford
Topographic elements jigsawed into a puzzle of organized colour, shape and form. Swipe to see my field study drawn from life. As Kandinsky once said: ‘Depiction of the appearance of the real world somehow obstructs access to the spiritual domain.’ I think it’s about engaging in a dialogue with the elements, a reductive process of animating trees and rocks and playing with the compositional structure as they lead the eye into the distance. And just for a physical shift, I’ve chosen to use watercolour. #watercolourpainting #composition #components #landscape #individualpieces #reductive #dialogue #jigsaw #colour #landscape #fieldstudy #spiritual #mikestaniford
Referencing the abstract shapes, structure and forms as opposed to reality. But keeping the distant range as a figurative cue that provides access to the non-figurative aspects of the painting. Swipe for initial field study. #landscape #landscapepainting #composition #structure #verisimilitude #figurative #abstraction #forms #nature #distantranges #reductiveart #reductive #reductiveabstraction #character #narrative #emotionalspirit #mikestaniford
Rediscovering the familiar. How possible it is to change our relationship with familiar things and places when you draw with consciousness and intention. Firstly the mangroves, sculptures emerging out of the swampy water, then twisting every which way and the jetty stretching out to the hundred or so boats at anchor in Hardy’s Bay. Drawing is like laying down another memory, a special moment in time. #memory #draw #drawing #drawingoftheday #drawwithdebbie #hardysbay #mangroves #capturingtime #perception #relatingtolife #landscape #landscapedrawing #rediscovering #charcoaldrawing #softpastels #mikestaniford
The studio today...all a bit chaotic! #studiolife #studioviews_daily #finishedartwork #workinprogress @meartspace #landscapepainting #busyenvironment #artists #artiststudio #mikestaniford
Quick watercolour sketches of the ocean and sky. Trying to capture spiritual likeness as opposed to the material likeness but you can push this idea much further into abstraction. Working fast helps keep my encounter intuitive and fresh. Trying to match the energy of my interpretation with a sense of the subject. #energy #oceans #fieldstudies #watercolour #coastline #killcare #workfast #intuitive #landscape #seascapepainting #mikestaniford
Hidden depths. Referencing the dark and ominous shadows deep within the crevasses and rocks from a particularly good vantage point at Hawke Head. The more you look into it the more you discover. #shadows #hiddendepths #hiddencolors #hiddenplaces #whitetrees #abstractpainting #abstraction #landscape #interpretation #contemporaryart #experimenting #acrylic #mikestaniford
From the hills and valleys of Umbria (gouache on paper) to the coastal headland of Cape Cornwall ( acrylic on paper) I shouldn’t have favorites but I do and largely for the memories they bring back. Yes, I’m armchair travelling and mentally planning my next trip. Both works fulfill some of my favorite techniques- loose fluid brushwork and painted on location. Both have angles and lines that take the eye across the page and both make a bold statement with colour. I like to develop paintings with as much energy as I can in the hope the viewer will respond. You’re never sure how things will turn out when you work en plein air but that really is the fun of it. #landscape #landscapepainting #italytrip #umbria #cornwall #cornwallcoast #enpleinair #travel #travellingartist #mixedmedia #mikestaniford
Trekking up Hawke Head Drive. #observation #simplification #drawing #actoflooking #abstracting #makingsense #draw #draweachday #drawwithdebbie #landscape #outdooradventures #mikestaniford
Puddles. They caught my eye...well something’s got to. Swipe to see the initial pastel work made before the acrylic painting. Both works on paper and both available. DM me for details. #puddles #farmlife #tracks #countrylife #landscape #landscapepainting #welltroddenpaths #differentmediums #mikestaniford
Zig zagging coastlines wherever they are. How they meet the ocean and push back on the sky. Never fails to inspire me. #coastlines #headlands #oceanview #skyline #skies #landscape #landscapepainting #zigzag #leadtheye #dramatic #mikestaniford
Plein air scribbling. It feels like the landscape of the Hawke Head landscape, high up on the ridge above the Tasman Sea is more about geometry, texture and the relationship of shapes and forms. #landscape #landscapeartist #drawinglandscape #draw #drawing #abstracting #amplifying #reducing #relationship #spatial #hawkehead #geometry #monochrome #mikestaniford
Winter sun. It dips below the horizon at the moment around 5pm and the hour before it turns the eucalyptus flame orange and yellow, the colours ridiculously intense. Acrylic on board. 32 x 42cms. Box framed in Tasmanian Oak. #hardysbay #endofday #lateafternoon #lowsun #sunsetting #eucalyptus #acryliconboard #acrylicpainting #framed #mikestaniford DM me if you would like more details.
Changes in the landscape. Trees and rocks dancing with energy. It never looks the same. #light #shadows #colour #landscape #landscapepainting #geography #nature #natures_moods #apaintedlandscspe #abstraction #abstractart #forms #shapes #statues #graphic #graphic #organicforms #shapes #richcolours #dance #energy #mikestaniford
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