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Welcome to my art website. This is where you can see a small selection of my work made over the past 40 years or so, mostly paintings and drawings but also installations and environmental sculpture.
Much of my work is a response to landscape, my abiding passion in art, but you can also see portraiture and other less easily categorised work such as those in the 'Other Paintings' gallery.
In the Drawings gallery there are works on paper made outdoors in the landscape and elsewhere on journeys or in indoor environments. Other galleries, such Landscapes and Coasts And The Sea, contain imaginative journeys in the studio based on my outdoor experiences and memories. Some are pure fantasy based on an idea evolving over time (sometimes a very long time) or spontaneously emerging on the canvas and completed in days or weeks.
As an artist I often work through themes. It helps me to explore certain ideas in more depth and the constraint is often creative. For example there are paintings exploring skies with jet aeroplane contrails (vapour trails) which began in the mid-1990s and still interests me today. Contrails can be very beautiful but they also signify our strange human presence in the sky and our thirst for global travel, a phenomenon which has its upsides and its serious down sides.
My paintings and other artworks aren't moral messages but they do sometimes ask questions and different people will see different things in them such as the in the floating paper clouds installed in the Bridgewater Hall concert venue in Manchester in the Installation and Sculpture gallery. Sometimes they will open my eyes to things I hadn't seen which I like because it's a moment of discovery for me as well as the viewer. So, if there is something you see in an image here or it provokes an idea that you want to share with me then please do get in touch via the comment form at the bottom of each gallery page.
If my works are any good they just create a feeling and if that strikes a chord with the viewer then I've perhaps made a small difference for someone and that's a worthwhile outcome for me. Sometimes these feelings and thoughts grow into projects even major projects such as the commission from the Alfred Wegener Institute for the Blue House Museum, Helgoland, Germany in 2017, the design and creation of which is shown in the Commissions gallery.
In addition to galleries for Landscape, Coastal and Seascape, Portraits, Figurative Art and Drawings there are galleries for different themes or projects such as the English Nature woodland residency of 1992 or the more recent art-science research collaboration with climate change scientists.
Many works are for sale, some framed. Unframed pieces include canvases with painted sides, works on paper and paper sculptures. For enquiries about purchasing work, commissioning art, discussing a project, or anything else please contact me via the comments form at the bottom of the page.
Hello Lionel and Alex.
I love the colours, perspective and depth of your landscapes Lionel.
My favourite is Hartside 21 Abstract because of its infinity, the eye goes round and round passing many horizons.
One day I might participate in one of your sketch courses.
For now I hope you don’t mind, I use this link to get in touch with you and Alex, who is friend with Fiona, my sister in law. My husband is Fiona’s brother Rory. You had Carys and Georgia visiting last year. (They loved it very much).
Rory and I are travelling to Dunoon next week, for Wednesday 26th March, with our camper (Giralda). We decided to break up the journey and thought it might be nice to meet you both over coffee or lunch, if you have time.
We do not wish to cause you any trouble and like to stay independently for one or two nights in some B&B or hotel, may be near where you are and you might in the position to recommend a nice place.
It is likely that this email takes you by surprise and also because of the short notice it is likely you are busy and have no time. If this is the case we might meet another time, so please don’t hesitate to say no. It would be nice if it happens, but please don’t feel in any way obliged!
Best wishes from us both
Friederike and Rory