Lyme Cobb, Dorset – Coastal Artist – Reading Guild of Artists member Linda Saul ARWS

Lyme Cobb, Dorset – Coastal Artist – Reading Guild of Artists member Linda Saul ARWS

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Artist: Linda Saul ARWS

Artist: Linda Saul ARWS

Lyme Cobb, Dorset - Coastal Artist - Reading Guild of Artists member Linda Saul ARWS
Image Size: 39cm x 58cm
Art Medium: Watercolour Collage
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Linda Saul ARWS

Reading, Berkshire

Contemporary Watercolour and Mixed Media Artist. focusing on the built environment - both urban and coastal

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Email: linda@lindasaul.co.uk

Website: lindasaul.co.uk

Facebook:@lindamsaul

Instagram: linda.m.saul

Twitter: @lindamsaul

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About The Artist

Linda works in water-based mixed media with an innovative, non-traditional approach focusing on texture. She exploits the physical properties of different water-based media and papers and often uses collage to enable her to mix paper surfaces to achieve different textural effects. She enjoys painting coastal subjects and urban scenes including construction sites.

Living near Reading in Berkshire, in 2019 she instigated and co-curated an exhibition inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Further inspired by the campaign to Save Reading Gaol to create an Arts and Culture Centre, she organised the Reading Gaol Hug which saw the Gaol surrounded by 1000 people linking hands. In 2020, she co-authored the book 'Reading’s Influential Women' published by Two Rivers Press.

Pendeen, Cornwall - Mixed Media Painting by Linda Saul 320x320
Needles - Isle of Wight - Painting by Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolourist Linda Saul
Tater Du Lighthouse - Painting by Reading Berkshire Royal Watercolour Society Artist Linda Saul 320x320

Art Groups / Exhibitions

Linda is an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society and vice-chair of the Reading Guild of Artists. She exhibits regularly in the Reading area and at the Bankside Gallery in London. She has also exhibited with the Royal Institute, the Discerning Eye and The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

The Mermaid in Dock – Harwich – Watercolour Painting by Royal Society of Marine Artists member Richard Cave

The Mermaid in Dock – Harwich – Watercolour Painting by Royal Society of Marine Artists member Richard Cave

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists

Artist: Richard Cave

Artist: Richard Cave

The Mermaid in Dock - Harwich - Watercolour Painting by Royal Society of Marine Artists member Richard Cave

TH Mermaid in Dock – Harwich

‘Mermaid’ is one of two Trinity House boats based at Harwich, which at the time, were retrieving buoys from around the UK coast to change the power source to solar cells, one of whichcan be seen suspended from the ship’s crane.

Although the ‘Mermaid’ is the main subject of the painting, the activity in the foreground is introduced to provide context, by framing the subject and giving a sense of distance and scale – a necessary element in scenes with water, in which distances can be difficult to define.

Image Size: 67cm x 48cm framed
Art Medium: Watercolour
Painting Price: £400

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Richard Cave

Watercolour Artist

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Email: richardccave@btinternet.com

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About The Artist

I have been painting watercolours seriously for over 30 years, initially as a facility to illustrate my own work as an Architect which developed into providing that service for others. An interest in the built environment, landscape and setting focussed interest of early paintings on buildings in landscape and townscape, inevitably leading me to a traditional taste in subject matter. Although such subjects from real life are still an inspiration, my work over the last ten years has been orientated toward effects of light and the development of a technique which captures this.

Subject matter is often the depiction of life ‘en plein aire’, instigated by the quality of light and form. To capture the moment, watercolour is the ideal medium and my approach has been traditional, even to the extent of not using white body colour (this is a personal preference, because of the ‘alien’ effect of body colour in a transparent medium rather than a criticism of those who use it). I also try to avoid the use of masque but this is mainly because the essence of ‘plein aire’ is usually a fleeting quality of light which does not allow the time necessary for the use of masking mediums.

Studio paintings are different, but even in in these circumstances I prefer to preserve white surfaces while painting or to lift colour in the process. I also tend to use natural earth colours as much as possible; this is partly because they best suit my normal subject matter but also because, unlike a staining colour, they can be lifted when dry to create ‘whites’. I also tend to use a heavy, rough watercolour paper as my support, which lends itself to techniques for manipulating colour including scratching to produce highlights.

One cannot practise watercolour painting and be unaware of the many great practitioners of the art, both alive and dead. One can admire some, such as John Yardley whilst recognising his approach would be impossible for me, whereas examples from John Blockley, Trevor Chamberlain, Lucy Willis and even Russel Flint and Rowland Hilder have all contributed to my own technique.

Richard Cave, Berkshire Artist

Art Groups / Exhibitions

I have occasionally submitted works to national exhibitions and have had works accepted on several occasions by the Royal Society of Marine Artists. This is valuable as a means of getting work seen by a wider audience, but the high percentage of sale taken by the gallery does not make this financially advantageous. I therefore prefer to exhibit where my work can be presented for what I consider to be a fair price, without the need to overprice to meet the gallery commission. I also provide watercolour tuition to local groups and occasional commissions.