Pastel Art Commissions – Hampshire England Coastal Artist Jennifer Thorpe

Pastel Art Commissions – Hampshire England Coastal Artist Jennifer Thorpe

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Hampshire Artists

Artist: Jennifer Thorpe

Artist: Jennifer Thorpe

Pastel Art Commissions - Hampshire Artist Jennifer Thorpe - Ray of Hope

Ray of Hope

Hampshire Coast, England

Image Size: Fits standard 50cm x 40cm frame from B and Q or The Range
Art Medium: Pastels
Original Painting: Sold
Availability: Fine Art Prints – £42. Please contact the Artist

Commissions Invited

Contact The Artist

Jennifer Thorpe

 

Award-Winning Pastel Artist

Abstracts in Acrylic and Ink

Phone: 07962 176546

Please mention the Hampshire Artists website

Email: jenniferthorpeart@gmail.com

Website: jenniferthorpeart.com

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About The Artist

"I only found my love for painting five years ago, I’ve always been creative in one way or another but never in my wildest dreams thought I was capable of producing a painting that others would appreciate, let alone win an award in a pastel exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in my first year.

Free from the rigours of any formal training I’ve spent many hours perfecting my skills with soft pastels and love painting on large pieces of paper, the bigger the better. You get a real sense of being immersed in the moment if a painting is big and commands your attention. I love painting water; its multifaceted properties keep me curious and addicted to exploring my ability to capture it.

My inspiration is fuelled by nature and its cycles, from day to day, month to month, it never fails to disappoint. I am very lucky to live by the beach in Hill Head on the South Coast of England. I walk every day come rain or shine and each time I’m filled with excitement and anticipation; camera in hand, I take hundreds of photos every week. I already have a lifetime of material, but I just can’t stop collecting moments.

I’m always looking up or looking intently at the colours emerging through the crest of a wave, or at a sunset reflecting in wet sand. There’s always something wonderful to see and this, I think, is why I love to replicate what I see realistically. I feel like I’m cheating nature if I don’t get the exact exquisite colours. I harness my ability to see the subtle changes in colour and pick them out in my paintings. This is not to say I don’t go mad with colour and produce some crazy abstracts from deep within occasionally."

Abstract - Hampshire Art Gallery Acrylic and Ink - Jennifer Thorpe
Hampshire Pastel Artist Jennifer Thorpe - Golden Path
Hampshire Abstract Art Gallery - Jennifer Thorpe - Tendrils

As a child, Jennifer spent a lot of time with her family at the beach, not in the water with the others, but hunting for treasures in the rocks and sand. Her fascination with nature then was in the detail of a shell or the pattern on a feather. Now, her passion for the natural world runs much deeper and she wants to share what she sees with everyone. Art touches and reaches people more than we realise and Jennifer hopes that she can give pleasure whilst stirring a deep passion in people to cherish, be grateful and thankful for the amazing planet on which we live.

Living by the beach on the south coast of England, Jennifer has a fascination and an insatiable desire to paint water in all its forms (clouds, water and ice). Light provides the ever-changing ingredient to enhance and display water in all its glory, so whether it's the sea providing the biggest mirror to reflect and flaunt the magnificent colours in a sunset, or light illuminating the neon blue in icebergs, or the sun shining through the crest of a wave, Jennifer loves to capture all these beautiful images with her unique way with soft pastels.

Technique

"When I prepare for one of my pastel paintings, I take a long time blending colours together on test paper to get the right tones and won’t begin the painting until I’ve at least got the colours for half the painting ready. I then take a mid-tone pastel on my white paper and begin drawing and mapping out the painting, filling in the respective darker and lighter areas carefully so I don’t lose the light of the white paper in the areas where I want maximum light. This very first thin layer is rubbed in well and creates the base layer to build on. I then go in with a second layer of pastel and build up the depth and colour, finishing with the final layer which picks out the detail and highlights. There’s not much room for error, once the tooth is full, its full and you can’t apply any more colour.

For the very detailed parts of my work I break the pastels into tiny shards and use the edges for the fiddly bits. Pastel pencils at this stage just slide over the top and don’t make an impression. To seal the finished painting I use a supermarket own brand hairspray. Because it’s a cheap version, it doesn’t have any additives and is basically a spray glue. In my experience some expensive fixatives tend to darken the painting.

I think I’m drawn to soft pastels because it’s an immediate medium, there is no mixing on a palette, no brushes to find, you just pick them up and off you go. I get stuck in with my hands, I use my palms for the larger areas that need blending and my fingers to rub, dab and manipulate the pastels on the paper. You have to be careful with soft pastels not to mix the light and dark colours if you want vibrancy, it’s a delicate process which takes patience, some days I have loads and other days I get distracted easily. I tend to have a podcast or an audio book playing in the background."

Art Groups / Exhibitions

Royal Society of British Artists, The Pastel Society and Bursledon Art Society.

Jennifer exhibits her work in a number of locations.

Past Exhibitions

Harbour Lights, Solo Exhibition 31st January - 26th February 2020
Hampshire Open Studios 17th - 26th August 2019
The Accessible Art Show - Day of Art - Southampton 23rd March 2019 - The Spark (Solent University Conference Centre) Live Auction and Art Exhibition.
Hampshire Open Studios August 2018
The Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition, Mall Galleries 2018 presented by Philip Mould
Oxmarket Gallery Chichester 2018
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018 Mall Galleries London presented by Rupert Maas
Oxmarket Gallery - Open Art Exhibition, October 2017
New Forest Centre- Open Art Exhibition, October 2017
Hampshire Open Studios - August 2017
The Pastel Society 118th Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, Award winner, presented by Michael Portillo (Unison Colour Award) London - March 2017

Beach Huts at Hill Head – Bursledon Art Society Hampshire Artist Jennifer Thorpe

Beach Huts at Hill Head – Bursledon Art Society Hampshire Artist Jennifer Thorpe

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Hampshire Artists

Artist: Jennifer Thorpe

Artist: Jennifer Thorpe

Beach Huts at Hill Head - Sunset - Bursledon Art Society Hampshire Artist Jennifer Thorpe

Beach Huts at Hill Head

Hampshire Sunset

Image Size: 71cm x 63cm in white wooden frame
Art Medium: Pastel
Painting Price: £550

Commissions Invited

Contact The Artist

Jennifer Thorpe

 

Award-Winning Pastel Artist

Abstracts in Acrylic and Ink

Phone: 07962 176546

Please mention the Hampshire Artists website

Email: jenniferthorpeart@gmail.com

Website: jenniferthorpeart.com

Gallery Of Art

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About The Artist

"I only found my love for painting five years ago, I’ve always been creative in one way or another but never in my wildest dreams thought I was capable of producing a painting that others would appreciate, let alone win an award in a pastel exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in my first year.

Free from the rigours of any formal training I’ve spent many hours perfecting my skills with soft pastels and love painting on large pieces of paper, the bigger the better. You get a real sense of being immersed in the moment if a painting is big and commands your attention. I love painting water; its multifaceted properties keep me curious and addicted to exploring my ability to capture it.

My inspiration is fuelled by nature and its cycles, from day to day, month to month, it never fails to disappoint. I am very lucky to live by the beach in Hill Head on the South Coast of England. I walk every day come rain or shine and each time I’m filled with excitement and anticipation; camera in hand, I take hundreds of photos every week. I already have a lifetime of material, but I just can’t stop collecting moments.

I’m always looking up or looking intently at the colours emerging through the crest of a wave, or at a sunset reflecting in wet sand. There’s always something wonderful to see and this, I think, is why I love to replicate what I see realistically. I feel like I’m cheating nature if I don’t get the exact exquisite colours. I harness my ability to see the subtle changes in colour and pick them out in my paintings. This is not to say I don’t go mad with colour and produce some crazy abstracts from deep within occasionally."

Abstract - Hampshire Art Gallery Acrylic and Ink - Jennifer Thorpe
Hampshire Pastel Artist Jennifer Thorpe - Golden Path
Hampshire Abstract Art Gallery - Jennifer Thorpe - Tendrils

As a child, Jennifer spent a lot of time with her family at the beach, not in the water with the others, but hunting for treasures in the rocks and sand. Her fascination with nature then was in the detail of a shell or the pattern on a feather. Now, her passion for the natural world runs much deeper and she wants to share what she sees with everyone. Art touches and reaches people more than we realise and Jennifer hopes that she can give pleasure whilst stirring a deep passion in people to cherish, be grateful and thankful for the amazing planet on which we live.

Living by the beach on the south coast of England, Jennifer has a fascination and an insatiable desire to paint water in all its forms (clouds, water and ice). Light provides the ever-changing ingredient to enhance and display water in all its glory, so whether it's the sea providing the biggest mirror to reflect and flaunt the magnificent colours in a sunset, or light illuminating the neon blue in icebergs, or the sun shining through the crest of a wave, Jennifer loves to capture all these beautiful images with her unique way with soft pastels.

Technique

"When I prepare for one of my pastel paintings, I take a long time blending colours together on test paper to get the right tones and won’t begin the painting until I’ve at least got the colours for half the painting ready. I then take a mid-tone pastel on my white paper and begin drawing and mapping out the painting, filling in the respective darker and lighter areas carefully so I don’t lose the light of the white paper in the areas where I want maximum light. This very first thin layer is rubbed in well and creates the base layer to build on. I then go in with a second layer of pastel and build up the depth and colour, finishing with the final layer which picks out the detail and highlights. There’s not much room for error, once the tooth is full, its full and you can’t apply any more colour.

For the very detailed parts of my work I break the pastels into tiny shards and use the edges for the fiddly bits. Pastel pencils at this stage just slide over the top and don’t make an impression. To seal the finished painting I use a supermarket own brand hairspray. Because it’s a cheap version, it doesn’t have any additives and is basically a spray glue. In my experience some expensive fixatives tend to darken the painting.

I think I’m drawn to soft pastels because it’s an immediate medium, there is no mixing on a palette, no brushes to find, you just pick them up and off you go. I get stuck in with my hands, I use my palms for the larger areas that need blending and my fingers to rub, dab and manipulate the pastels on the paper. You have to be careful with soft pastels not to mix the light and dark colours if you want vibrancy, it’s a delicate process which takes patience, some days I have loads and other days I get distracted easily. I tend to have a podcast or an audio book playing in the background."

Art Groups / Exhibitions

Royal Society of British Artists, The Pastel Society and Bursledon Art Society.

Jennifer exhibits her work in a number of locations.

Past Exhibitions

Harbour Lights, Solo Exhibition 31st January - 26th February 2020
Hampshire Open Studios 17th - 26th August 2019
The Accessible Art Show - Day of Art - Southampton 23rd March 2019 - The Spark (Solent University Conference Centre) Live Auction and Art Exhibition.
Hampshire Open Studios August 2018
The Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition, Mall Galleries 2018 presented by Philip Mould
Oxmarket Gallery Chichester 2018
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018 Mall Galleries London presented by Rupert Maas
Oxmarket Gallery - Open Art Exhibition, October 2017
New Forest Centre- Open Art Exhibition, October 2017
Hampshire Open Studios - August 2017
The Pastel Society 118th Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, Award winner, presented by Michael Portillo (Unison Colour Award) London - March 2017

Tree – West Sussex Sunrise Sunset – Mahmood Roostaei Art Gallery

Tree – West Sussex Sunrise Sunset – Mahmood Roostaei Art Gallery

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Hampshire Artists

Artist: Mahmood Roostaei

Artist: Mahmood Roostaei

Tree - Sunrise - Cissbury Ring West Sussex - Mahmood Roostaei

Cissbury Ring, West Sussex

Image Size: 100cm x 100cm
Art Medium: Acrylic
Painting Price: £280

Commissions Invited

Contact The Artist

Mahmood Roostaei

Oil and Acrylic Landscape and Abstract Artist

Phone: 07511 280423

Please mention the Hampshire Artists website

Email: info@mahmoodart.com

Website: mahmoodart.com

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About The Artist

Mahmood is an artist living in Portsmouth by the sea in Hampshire.

Originally from Iran, he paints scenes from across the south coast of England, with unique and original interpretation, using both oil and acrylic with a variety of subjects he loves.

He puts his passion and inspiration into his art to give you delicate, fine, bright, happy, warm paintings, to cheer you up any time you look at them!

Now, he works in his studio in Petersfield, Hampshire, which is the perfect place to paint and enjoy the scenery.

Mahmood Roostaei, Petersfield Artist at work

Mahmood Roostaei, Petersfield Artist at work

Art Group / Exhibitions

Petersfield Arts and Crafts Society

Petersfield Arts and Crafts Society Exhibitions and Art Exhibitions at the Flora Twort Gallery, Petersfield Museum.

In 2018, one of the paintings I exhibited in Petersfield was Highly Commended by the judges.

I also won the Petersfield Visitors Choice Award 2 years in row, in 2015 and 2016.

Mahmood Roostaei - Petersfield - Peoples Award Winner 2 years in a row

Art Group / Exhibitions

Petersfield Arts and Crafts Society

Petersfield Arts and Crafts Society Exhibitions and Art Exhibitions at the Flora Twort Gallery, Petersfield Museum.

In 2018, one of the paintings I exhibited in Petersfield was Highly Commended by the judges.

I also won the Petersfield Visitors Choice Award 2 years in row, in 2015 and 2016.

Alresford Sunset, Hampshire – Art Gallery – Ted Hepenstal

Alresford Sunset, Hampshire – Art Gallery – Ted Hepenstal

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Hampshire Artists

Artist: Ted Hepenstal

Artist: Ted Hepenstal

Sunset over East Street, Alresford, Hampshire - Ted Hepenstal Gallery

Sunset over East Street, Alresford

Hampshire

Image Size: 53cm x 43cm
Art Medium: Acylic on Paper
Original Painting: £400
Fine Art Limited Edition Prints available

Commissions Invited

Contact The Artist

Ted Hepenstal

Contemporary Artist

Acrylic, Gouache, Oil Pastel, Ink, Collage and Pencil

Phone: 07756 563123

Please mention the Hampshire Artists website

Email: tedhepen@gmail.com

Website: tedhepenstal.com

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About The Artist

As an artist, I want to develop paintings that speak both to me and to others about the beauty that I see in the world. I love to paint landscapes and townscapes, particularly scenes in my home county of Hampshire.

I am influenced greatly by artists such as Van Gogh, Kandinsky and Cezanne and use bold colours in my paintings, in the hope of capturing moods and emotions and also creating a sense of connection to a location.

I paint for the pure enjoyment of it and desire to share this joy with others.

My paintings are made by using a variety of mediums including acrylic, gouache, oil pastel, ink, collage and pencil.

Ted in the Studio - Bluebells, Rookwood

Ted in the Studio, painting Bluebells - Rookwood

Art Group / Exhibitions

I have exhibited paintings at Winchester Cathedral and also at the Business Design Centre, Islington, as winner of the Abstract and Experimental category for the Society for all Artists.