Emerging Artist Award 2021
Almost There
Almost There
40x50cms
Oil on canvas board
Oil painting of the sun setting with the silhouette of a tree in the foreground, in a snowy day in December. I captured the image on a late afternoon dog walk on the Malverns, looking towards Wales, and painted it using palette knives and riggers in the warmth of my studio.
Anna Cumming
I am a Scottish oil painter, happiest when yielding a palette knife throwing paint on to a canvas thick and fast. I paint expressively, and intuitively, and love to create interesting marks. Many I couldn’t repeat if I tried, but there is joy for me in a random mark or colour, where by rights it shouldn’t be, but it just works.
I’m interested in light and colour, and try to create mood, movement and energy in a landscape or seascape, since that is the reality that is often lost in an image.