Sea Holly and Tulips Bouquet  – Acrylic Impasto Floral Painting by Artist Rachel Goffredo

Sea Holly and Tulips Bouquet – Acrylic Impasto Floral Painting by Artist Rachel Goffredo

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Artist: Rachel Goffredo

Artist: Rachel Goffredo

Sea Holly, Tulips Bouquet - Acrylic Impasto Floral Painting by Artist Rachel Goffredo
Image Size: 30cm x 40cm
Art Medium: Acrylic Impasto on Acrylic 300g Paper
Original Painting Price: £115
Limited Edition Giclée Prints available
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Rachel Goffredo

Botanicals, Seascapes and predominantly Italian Landscapes

Inspired by Nature

Impasto Oils and Acrylics

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Email: rachelsartenquiries@gmail.com

Website: rachelsart.uk

Facebook: Rachel's Art

Instagram: @rachelsartworks1

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About The Artist

Rachel Goffredo is a self-taught artist specialising in botanicals, seascapes and predominantly Italian landscapes. She draws her inspiration from nature and in particular trips to Italy, where the intricate beauty of the hibiscus flowers in Sicily first caught her imagination.

Rachel especially enjoys the dramatic effects created with palette knives and thick impasto oils and acrylics, which convey movement, texture and vibrancy in her paintings.

Dwarf Irises - Floral Art by Rachel Goffredo

Her work has been exhibited at the Holy Art Metamorphosis Exhibition in London in December 2020.

House Portraits and Commissions - Artist Rachel Goffredo

House Portraits and Commissions

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Rose Balloons - Contemporary Acrylic Artwork by Rachel Goffredo
Venetian Gondoliers by Venice Canal - Artist Rachel Goffredo
Mount Fuji Japan - Landscape Art by Rachel Goffredo

Exhibitions / Art Group

Rachel is an avid member of her local art group which meets weekly.

Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland – Oil Painting by Cookham Arts Club Artist Maria Meerstadt

Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland – Oil Painting by Cookham Arts Club Artist Maria Meerstadt

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Artist: Maria Meerstadt

Artist: Maria Meerstadt

Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland - Oil Painting by Cookham Arts Club Artist Maria Meerstadt

Beautiful Sligachan

Isle of Skye, Scotland

Image Size: 60cm x 80cm
Art Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Maria Meerstadt


Landscape, Floral and Animal Artist

Painting in Oil

Art Tutor - All Art Mediums

Classes in Maidenhead

Phone: 07525 160306

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Email: mariameerstadt@yahoo.co.uk

Website: mariameerstadt.com

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About The Artist

Maria has always loved to paint and feels immensely privileged to be a full-time artist.

The ideas for her work are influenced by colour. She never sees a blue sky – only shades of blue, with hints of pink, apricot, maybe grey! Trees are colours created on the trunks and leaves by sunlight, or times of the day.

Maria comes from the beautiful Channel Islands and has been lucky to have traveled extensively, always absorbing different cultures and scenery. Thirty years ago, she discovered Scotland and her main joy is capturing the beauty of the Highlands and Islands.

Art Groups / Exhibitions

Maria is a member of Artists at Goring, Cookham Arts Club and is a Henley Arts Trail Artist. She exhibits regularly.

Maria Meerstadt Art Classes in Maidenhead

Maria is also an Art Tutor and runs regular classes in Maidenhead.

She teaches all the main mediums to adults, regardless of what stage they are at in their learning. Details are available on the website www.artalivemaidenhead.com

Thistles Evening Sunlight – Watercolour Painting by Reading Guild of Artists member Richard Cave

Thistles Evening Sunlight – Watercolour Painting by Reading Guild of Artists member Richard Cave

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Artist: Richard Cave

Artist: Richard Cave

Thistles Evening Sunlight - Watercolour Painting by Reading Guild of Artists member Richard Cave

Thistles – Evening Sunlight

This painting captures the evening sunlight late in the year in Sicily, shining through the heads of thistles. The low angle of the strong sunlight created powerful contrasts with a limited palette, which reflected the natural vegetation on an uncultivated hillside.

Image Size: 22cm x 29cm
Art Medium: Watercolour – unframed
Painting Price: £300

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Richard Cave

Watercolour Artist

Art Tutor

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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.