My wife, Sue, and I took a ferry from Stavanger in Norway to a place called Tau, which we didn't think had much going for it although it was a pleasant enough walk. However, it did provide the inspiration for my painting "Tao" and also this painting. I just loved the...

You might want to roll a painted canvas either to store it safely or to send it through mail. Rolling a painted canvas can sometimes be tricky and if sufficient care is not taken the painting can get damaged. While rolling a canvas, you should keep in mind the following tips: Tip 1: Ensure...

  This is the last of the five miniature paintings (8 x 4.5ins, 20 x 13 cm) all acrylic on MDF or Masonite panel. Again, I just love the reflections here - it is almost surreal - which is the sky and which the reflection - only the minute ripples that are 'tearing' the reflections of...

  This is the fourth in a series of five miniature (8 x 4.5ins, 20 x 13 cm) paintings. It depicts the lakeside above the town of Olden in Norway - a wonderful spot to lose yourself in the Peace and Tranquility of Nature. The lower part of the picture is similar to a painting called...

  The third in a series of five miniatures (8 x 4.5ins, 20 x 13cm). This represents the end of the fjord at Flam, a regular destination for cruise ship passengers. It is phenomenally beautiful! The contrast of the high almost vertical cliffs and the tiny boat gives the picture an...

  This is the second of the five miniatures depicting the river bank at Olden, Norway. I love painting pebbles, stones and boulders and I also like to paint vertical format paintings because if you have a high horizon you automatically end up with massive detail in the foreground - and...

  Some years ago, my four grandchildren gave me four tiny canvasses, each one measuring no more than two inches by one inch (5 x 2.5cm) and each one on its own easel. So after painting "Alone" and "Solitude in Svalbard", I decided to paint a miniature painting for...

   My wife and I were on a cruise and were able to go ashore at Magdalenafjord in Spitzbergen, Norway - as desolate and majestic a place as you will find anywhere on earth, I think. I just adored the sense of solitude and personal  insignificance in this incredible setting. A...

    I think this is possibly my best painting so far - I managed particularly to get the water just right. Again, the scene is from Magdalenafjord in Spitzbergen. What I am so pleased about with this painting is that I have really settled into my new style now. I had a few initial...

  I actually painted this picture before concentrating on Nature and vignettes of Nature, but I include it here because it 'belongs' in a sense - with Nature threatened as it is by climate change. The polar ice is melting at a phenomenal rate and polar bears are finding it increasingly...

  Just after I came back from a Swedish holiday, I went on a cruise to Norway, the Lofoten Islands and the Svalbard archipelago (Spitzbergen). This is a place called Ballstad in Lofoten - one of the most stunningly beautiful places I have seen and I just couldn't resist painting it....

    This was a scene - a Vignette of Nature, as I like to call it - at the Chinese Garden in Sydney, Australia. I sat on a rock in a fairly meditative state when suddenly I noticed a large and very colourful lizard sitting next to me - and so I was inspired to write this Haiku....

  The Boathouse   Again, this painting of Marholmen, just south of Norrtalje in Sweden, shows how a Haiku poem can added another dimension to a picture. Here we hear the trees in the breeze as well as the joyful shouts of children playing somewhere in the woodland. I just love...

  On a blustery day in the Roslagen archipelago, just north of Stockholm in Sweden, I suddenly hit on an idea that could add an extra dimension to a painting - a Haiku poem in the traditional metre of 5-7-5 syllables. The verse above tells us more than we see in the painting itself -...

  Pebbles at Magdalena Bay   How could I not paint this? I immediately saw the potential of having a high skyline which automatically means more and more detail in the lower foreground ( see detail below). There is a wonderful sense of solitude at Magdalena Fjord, as in most...

• Blog Home
• Archives
• Subscribe To This Blog

Search This Blog:

«	May 2012					»
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

• "Bushbury Farm, Brockham" - Moving eastwards along the panel
• Bushbury Farm, Brockham - The sky repainted.
• The Tree Groweth - Latest post on Muggeridge's Farm - now renamed!
• Muggeridge's Farm, Brockham - Brightening it up!
• A New Painting Underway - "Muggeridge's Farm, Brockham"
• "Punchbowl Lane, Dorking" - the finished painting
• Main trees completed - "Punchbowl Lane, Dorking"
• "Punchbowl Lane, Dorking" - The tree finished and more slow progress!
• "Punchbowl Lane, Dorking" -=- The Tree Groweth!
• Slow but Sure Progress on "Punchbowl Lane, Dorking"

• WORK IN PROGRESS [46]
• LATEST NEWS [5]
• ARTICLES, THOUGHTS ON ARTS ETC. [12]
• HOW AND WHY I PAINTED THESE PAINTINGS [16]
• SAM HALLART VIDEOS [2]