Sweeping Skies

“Sweeping Skies” is a small, atmospheric acrylic painting that captures the feeling of vast sky and shifting weather through loose, expressive brushwork. Soft blues and pale creams form the open sky, while sweeping strokes of olive green and light yellow curve around the edges like drifting cloud banks or wind currents moving across the horizon.

A broad, warm band of coral and peach rises through the centre of the composition, suggesting a distant landscape or a glowing cloud formation catching the last light of day. Beneath it, deeper mauves and earthy tones anchor the scene, hinting at distant hills or shadowed ground.

The painting’s simplicity and fluid movement give it a sense of openness and calm. With just a few confident gestures, the work evokes the expansive Australian sky, where colour, light, and atmosphere seem to move endlessly across the landscape.

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Have been painting in Oils for 20 years, starting off in a traditional landscape/still life style, but gradually evolving to wherever inspiration, and the paint and colour take me. I have Illustrated Children's books, working in Acrylic, however the flow, movement and deep depth of colour of Oil's are truly addictive.

My art is wide and varied, and provides me with endless joy, with the odd moment of frustration along the way. The joy of my art is that I don't put any restrictions on it. It flows, it comes from ideas, visions and sometimes just from playing with paint. The whole point of being a creative person, is to be creative, so I can't lock into a particular style and paint that style over and over. The closest I come to that are my fish paintings, but I love my fish paintings, they are so relaxing, therapeutic and never quite the same as I chase the swimming fish around the canvas.
Sometimes I will start a painting with a particular idea, or style in mind, but as soon as I apply paint to the canvas I see something happening that I simply can't resist. So the original idea is taken over by the intriguing possibilities of the unknown creation that lies ahead. Sometimes that creation is nothing special, or lost in the overworked searches for that magic painting that came from nowhere. Sometimes, that magic painting does come from nowhere, and I stand back amazed and wonder how it happened. My years of experience have taught me to trust my artistic instincts, so more often than not, I am pleased with the results.
I have no doubt that my unrestricted "style" probably works against my marketable profile, but I love the way I can paint with freedom and I cannot wait to see what I come up with next.