Spring fields of Leicestershire, 25th April 2011

Paintings from Bank Holiday Monday..more cycling around yellow fields of Leicestershire and a puncture or two later..

Gate at Wistow, Leicestershire. 25th April 2011 £40.00 Size: 24cm x 10.5cm in white single mount.

Gate at Wistow, Leicestershire. 25th April 2011

£40.00 Size: 24cm x 10.5cm in white single mount.

Along the canal from Wistow, Leicestershire. 25th April 2011. Size: 25cm x 11.5cm. £40.00 Unframed, unmounted.

Along the canal from Wistow, Leicestershire. 25th April 2011. Size: 25cm x 11.5cm.
£40.00 Unframed, unmounted.

Canalside travelling towards Felton Locks, Leicestershire. 25th April 2011. Size:35.5cm x 13cm. £70.00  Unframed, unmounted.

Canalside view towards Felton Locks, Leicestershire. 25th April 2011. Size: 50cm x 40cm. £155.00 Framed in white wood frame and white double mount.

Leicestershire spring countryside 22 April 2011

Here are some more plein air watercolours whilst out on cycle rides in Leicestershire.
Getting back in the swing of things! First, I rode to Wistow and painted the first three from within the same field. Later I rode out to Foston with huge expanses of yellow fields rolling into the distance, this was a successful place to paint, quiet and seemingly miles from anyone. The last two are views around Countesthorpe and Great Glen

Wistow oak and yellow field, Leics. 22nd April 2011. Size: 25cm x 19cm. SOLD

Wistow rape seed fields, Leicestershire.

Under the oak tree.
22nd April 2011.

Foston yellow haze, Leicestershire. 22nd April 2011. Size: 39.5cm x 32.5cm. £140.00 Framed.

Farm at Foston, Leicestershire.
22nd April 2011.

On the road to Countesthorpe, Leicestershire.
22nd April 2011.
Mounted.

Top of  Great Glen travelling towards Burton Overy, Leicestershire.
22nd April 2011.

Leicestershire spring fields - 16 April 2011

Great yellow fields of oil seed rape are coming out at the moment. Here are a few watercolours from a walk around them today.

All todays paintings are 14.5" x 5.75" (37cm x 14.5cm)
Watercolour& watercolour pencil.

Landscapes in JONES' Coffee Shop Whitchurch, North Shropshire

1st Feb 2011 - 1st March  2011  @  JONES' Coffee Shop

I have just put up an exhibition of watercolour landscapes at Jones' Coffee Shop on the Whitchurch High Street, North Shropshire.

This exhibition is on until the 1st March 2011, when it then moves to Market Drayton. Please come and see!

Pembrokeshire coast - Oct 2010

A quickie high up on the Pembrokeshire coastal footpath. I love quickies.. with a clear sky. I think we walked up from St David's, a lovely part of Wales and great walking country. 

Pembrokeshire Coastpath. Watercolour, black watercolour pencil £40.00 Unframed. Oct 2010. Size: 23cm x 12cm

Purchased Monoprints and Watercolours are sent in a clear cellophane sleeve, 

either in a board backed envelope or a postal tube. All payments are made via PAYPAL.

Landscapes in Theatre Severn restaurant, Shrewsbury

Up on the second floor of Theatre Severn, in the restaurant, I've put up a set of watercolour landscapes, so if you're in Shrewsbury, please take five minutes to have a look!

Kurt Jackson talks about plein air painting on Midweek

Here is a nice little radio clip about Kurt Jackson's working process. I love his work and total approach to painting. Listen from about 23 minutes in.
BBC - Midweek 28/07/2010

Kurt Jackson's new exhibition 'The Dart' (4 Sept – 6 October 2010) is on at Lemon Street Gallery, 13 Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2LS.

www.lemonstreetgallery.co.uk

Caer Caradoc from Ragleth Hill, Shropshire

Some sunshine at last this week, so up the hill (heading east) from Church Stretton I went up onto Ragleth Hill. Some great views all around of Wenlock Edge, the Mynd, and Caer Caradoc painted here. It was a job to hang onto my paper!

View of Caer Caradoc from Ragleth Hill Watercolour, watercolour pencil 23cm x 12cm 18 August 2010 SOLD Here are some interesting photos of the hills I took, the shadows were particularly interesting for me as they looked like mirror images distorted on the hill. View of the Mynd, heather colour just showing through the dark shadows.

Norton Camp

A walk around the woods of Norton Camp from Craven Arms, Shropshire was a lovely ramble. This painting was one of the few distant views of hills available on the walk, since mostly I was in the woods! During this painting one of those low flying jets came from overhead, flew to the hill in the distance (I think it was Clee Hill), banked and headed off again. Overall it took a mere one or two minutes at most. Crushed hazelnuts still green, A beech limb fallen across the path, up a steep banked lane. Squares of corn and dots of oak, A wandering line of a hedge. An arm wet with sparkling water, A damp grass seat, Fading foxgloves, Strong swirling breeze. Unripe blackberries, Mature cheddar crisps, A Tunnock teacake, A chest full of fresh air, Time to walk on.

View towards Clee from Norton Camp, Craven Arms
Watercolour, watercolour pencil. 37cm x 15cm.
Painted 16 August 2010
£80.00

Purchase this painting unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated.
Paintings are sent sealed in a cellophane envelope, rolled in postal tube.

Far away fields - original plein air watercolour by Elizabeth Cadd

A plein air painting of Leicestershire fields.. painted during summer 2010, but I lost track of the date on this one.  I like the floating abstract shapes of the trees here..

Down to Earth, Whitchurch, Shropshire in July & August

Landscape work has just gone up at the Down to Earth Gallery in Whitchurch, North Shropshire. Currently on display are some Italian landscapes, The Down to Earth Gallery is in the courtyard at the back of Whitchurch High Street, and at the side of the Heritage & Information Centre.

The gallery is stuffed full of excellent craft work by local artists. Visit www.downtoearthgallery.co.uk

 4 The Craft Centre, St. Mary's Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1QY.

SPACE - Ellesmere Exhibition photos 20th June - 3rd July

Photos of my exhibition at SPACE, Ellesmere, Shropshire. Which was on from 20th June - 3rd July 2010. Showing life drawings, landscapes and a greenwood bench.

I spent the first Sunday which coincided with the Ellesmere Food & Drink Festival at the exhibition talking to people about my work with sketchbooks and other unframed work on show.
A fair bit of interest in the bench too which was nice to have on show.

Cooling walk at British Camp, Malverns

These last few days have been so hot and muggy working in the woodland workshop where I've been bowl turning, I took a break and went up to British Camp to go and cool down.
A beautiful refreshing breeze with a slight haze in the distance threatening rain, gave me chance to sketch a few scenes. I remember coming up here last summer quite a few times and my style has progressed a bit since then. Compare this same scene  in the top picture with last years painting british camp 2009 .

Shows up and down Shropshire

This is a picture of my pitch at the Hit and Run Art Show, Ellesmere, June 13th 2010. Footfall was a little low compared to last year apparently and the rain didn't help I think. I wasn't even sure what hanging system would be available when we turned up - or if we had to bring our own easels, but the organizers were extremely helpful and supportive. I met some very nice artists who also exhibit at SPACE in Ellesmere and even traded some beautiful cutout artwork with a fellow exhibitor.

Happy day on Strawberry Hill

A landscape of memories and feelings, of people and places.

Journeys

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."

Diane Arbus

Journeys open the heart, the soul and the eyes and with open eyes one sees clearly, sees a new world, a world that, for those who have lived in it forever, is no longer visible.

A week on the Isle of Wight

Oswestry exhibition photos

I haven't been doing much painting or rambling lately as I've started another season of volunteering in the woods (greenwood working) again. Why I wonder where all my time goes, I don't know...it goes on doing all this 'stuff' doesn't it. Anyway, here are some photos of me putting up my exhibition in Oswestry at the end of March.

We got their late due to motorway traffic and then I had to do the photographs for the local paper...it was a big exhibition to put up, but my lovely mum helped me out and we got it up in record time. Life drawing and figurative work went mostly in the upstairs room. Landscapes are round the cafe, you can see here downstairs.

Art Exhibition

My exhibition of Italian landscapes and life studies goes up today in Oswestry.

Also my new website to preview the exhibitions now live at www.elizabethcadd.co.uk

Hope you can pop along or just take a look!
Enjoy!