ARTISTS GALLERY
Mike Ainscough, The Henfield Hall, Sat & Sun
Mike Ainscough, The Henfield Hall, Sat & Sun
I've been drawing and painting on and off for most of my life, though without any formal training other than 'A' level Art back in the early 60s. I have been a keen photographer since my teens. In my 'plein air' days I used to carry all the artist's gear - small folding chair, sketchbook, pens, pencils, watercolour block, brushes, water, colours, etc. After a break from it all for some years, I started to experiment with graphic work - initially on a laptop with a tablet & stylus - and then on an iPad Pro with the 'Procreate' app.
Creating digitally and using some of the features common to paintings apps invites the artist to think in different ways and with different approaches. I have no 'style' - I paint whatever looks good and interesting to me. I often use my own photographs as ideas for a painting - the creation of which might be a few hours or a few months. The ones I use for high quality giclée prints are on Hahnemuhle paper of various types and are limited to editions of 6.
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Wild Duck Hall
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Devil's Dyke
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Rose & Gladiolus
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Tobias Harrison Lustreware
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Juno
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Early Morning, Ward 8E
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