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Nice Works are these watercolor or acrylic. Surfing, the Light and Ocean Color sure is different than Hawaii :>)
Brilliant the light is the key, spectacular!
Amazing Melanie you rock.
Wow fantastic work I love it Melanie, John
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- Where do you live and work
- I am a contemporary British artist originally from Newquay, Cornwall U.K. Today I am based in Brittany, France.
I have lived in Newquay, Penzance and Falmouth in Cornwall and had my own art gallery for several years in Truro, Cornwall. Over the last few years I have travelled frequently across the Channel from Cornwall to Brittany and eventually fulfilled my ambition to move here in Dec 07.
- Do you have your own website?
- http://www.melaniemcdonald.co.uk/
- What is your artistic style
- I gain much of my inspiration from the Cornish landscape - in particular beaches and the sea in Cornwall. I especially love North Cornwall; my paintings often focus on Padstow, Polzeath Beach and Rock. Each time I visit Cornwall, I’m always drawn to the north coast for ideas for more paintings. The Camel Estuary and Daymer Bay near Padstow in Cornwall are also continuing reference points.
I used to live next to Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall, and walked my dog there everyday. I began to get very interested in the surfers and the shapes of their surfboards against the background of sea and sky. Over the last 2 years, I have painted a series of surfer paintings and they are a continuing passion of mine.
- What is your artistic medium
- I hope my paintings have the power to suggest the experience of walking on the beach, surfing, or spending time with family. I would like you to feel almost as if you can enter the painting and be transported to that place. I use an evocative, delicate balance of colours with surprising textures. I'm often attracted to shimmering light, silhouetted figures and distinctive shapes such as surfboards. There is often an expanded sense of space in the paintings, particularly the beach paintings, reflecting the infinite horizon and endless sky of Cornwall and Scotland. I use the paint in a fluid, watery flow to depict water.
I love walking on the beach and watching the colours of the sea and sky change. I take hundreds of photographs of Cornish beachscapes and seascapes. Then I translate the images I've seen through my camera lens; these are a starting point but instinct soon takes over and I am painting from memory. I try to capture the texture, colour and form of the beach scene using layers of colour and varied brushwork. I think many of the paintings have a haunting, ambiguous quality. I often feel that my paintings hover between representational landscape paintings and abstract paintings.
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View my blog - Gauguin's Loft - for a glimpse of my life and see paintings by Melanie McDonald.
View my blog - Gauguin's Loft - for a glimpse of my life and see paintings by Melanie McDonald.
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- At 9:55pm on November 7, 2009,
Roger W Povey said…
- Hi Melanie Welcome aboard Roger W Povey - Network Creator
- At 1:01pm on November 7, 2009,
Melanie McDonald said…
- http://www.facebook.com/Melanie.McDonald.Artist.Cornwall?ref=profile
You can say hi on FACEBOOK!
- At 12:59pm on November 7, 2009,
Melanie McDonald said…
- http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=55568959&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
You can link with me on LINKEDIN.
- At 12:58pm on November 7, 2009,
Melanie McDonald said…
- http://twitter.com/MelMcDonaldArt
You can follow me on TWITTER.
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