Category Archives: Astronomy paintings

New Painting

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine and Venus – A Temperature Inversion at Sunset Breghyek Ynysek Syllan Oil on canvas 90×180 cm 2026 £3400

Back on the easel today for the last time. The painting was dry enough for a protective varnish. The image shows the painting secured to the two uprights of the easle.

Earth shine – sometimes referred to as the Da Vinci Glow, the phenomenon has been observed for centuries ….. probably millennia. But Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to correctly interpret why this phenomenon happens. That it is sunlight reflecting of the Earth and onto the Moon and back to Earth giving off a pale glow.

This painting is from observations and drawings from the 5th October 2024 and has taken a year to complete using artist quality professional materials including Michael Harding and Old Holland oil paintings and finished with a protective beeswax based double rectified Portuguese genuine turpentine matt varnish. This is a wonderful varnish which gives the painting an even matt finish that is almost like the visial equivalent of velvet, making large areas of colour seem infinitely deep.

message me if interested the painting is finished and ready to hang

 

 

 

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine and Venus. New Painting

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine and Venus – A Temperature Inversion at Sunset Breghyek Ynysek Syllan Oil on canvas 90×180 cm 2026 £3400
was back on the easel today for some more work.
contact me  if interested the painting is now finished and ready to hang

New painting

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine, Venus – A Temperature Inversion at Sunset Ynysek Syllan Oil on canvas 90×180 cm 2026 £4495

A favorite subject. The Moon is a wonderful subject and contemplating it’s formation and serene movement across the sky. Seeing Earth shine and a bright crescent is a stunning experience and combined with the changing weather makes for a fascinating subject.

 

 

Crescent Moon with Earth Shine, Venus – A Temperature Inversion at Sunset Ynysek Syllan Oil on canvas 90×180 cm April 2026

New drawing

Over the next few days I’ll be posting a series of new drawings inspired from my love of drawing out doors, and inspired from my interest in astronomy. They are also titled in the original language of Kernow (Cornwal) with a translation into English. The drawings are done using various graphite and charcoal pencils in various grades from 9b to 16b and some become paintings through the use of graphite wash.

 

 

Loor Gernek. Ynysek Syllan. (Crescent Moon Isles of Scilly)

Graphite on prepared card 67×48 cm 2024. Framed £575

 

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Loor Gernek. Ynysek Syllan. (Crescent Moon Isles of Scilly) Graphite on prepared card 67×48 cm 2024. £775

 

 

 

New drawing

Over the next few days I’ll be posting a series of new drawings inspired from my love of drawing out doors, and inspired from my interest in astronomy. They are also titled in the original language of Kernow (Cornwal) with a translation into English. The drawings are done using various graphite and charcoal pencils in various grades from 9b to 16b and some become paintings through the use of graphite wash.

 

An loor yn hy hwarter diwettha. Ynysek Syllan (Gibbous Moon). Isles of Scilly.

Graphite on prepared card 67×48 cm 2024. Framed. £575

To purchase direct from me either contact me via the contact form on the  contact page of this website  HERE  or visit my etsy shop HERE

 

An loor yn hy hwarter diwettha. Ynysek Syllan (Gibbous Moon). Isles of Scilly. Graphite on prepared card 67×48 cm 2024 £775.

 

 

Drawing the Aurora Borealis

‘Radically Limited Access to Reality – Enhanced’

Graphite on Card 25×48.5 cm 2024

 

I Observed the Aurora Borealis on the 10th and 11th May from just after 11 pm to 3 am. It was extraordinary even to my unaided eye’s I could see hints of colour. The crescent Moon was also visible sinking slowly into the West, and is in the lower left of the drawing. This is the first of several artworks about this experience. The drawing is composed of three panels joined together and angled somewhat.

New gallery and exhibition of my artworks in London

My second exhibition for 2024 and a new gallery promoting my artwork.

This painting is one of the artworks on show. The exhibition starts on the 19th April and is ongoing.

To view the gallery click here

Magnetic Reconnection - view from Porth Mellion Cairn Tresco February 2023

Magnetic Reconnection – view from Porth Mellion Cairn Tresco February 2023. £2500

Magnetic Reconnection – view from Porth Mellion Cairn Tresco February 2023

Magnetic Reconnection – view from Porth Mellin Cairn Tresco February 2023

 

After seeing the Aurora in Iceland in 2023 the artist saw them again on Tresco Ynysek Syllan (Isles of Scilly) February 2023 and again in March 2024 and again on Brechiek Ynysek Syllan in March and again on September 13th 2023. All different all amazing experiences

The artwork is a response to nature, painted outside and finished in the studio. The painting explores our connection with nature, more than that, it explores landscape and seascape in the broader context of how weather systems develop that the sun drives the climate, It is about interconnection, philosophically it is an attempt to impress upon the viewer that we are not a separate creation from nature. That our consiousness, our self awareness evolved out of the same laws of nature that govern the evolution of the universe. From this philosophical point of view arises the paradigm that consciousness is the universe becoming self aware, holding a metaphorical mirror up to itself and asking the question what am I ….. Then the choice of how we treat nature arises. As we are nature it is in reality about how we treat ourselves, each other and nature.

On a clear night away from light poluted skies the human eye can see between 1.600 and 5000 stars, estimates differ according to different sources, however the darker the sky and the less light polution the more you can see. In this painting I have placed 3800 individual stars including various constellations and the galaxy was very prominent. Everything is painted from observation using averted vision and memory …..

 

Magnetic Reconnection - view from Porth Mellin Cairn Tresco February 2023

Magnetic Reconnection – view from Porth Mellin Cairn Tresco February 2023

 

New painting ‘Magnetic Reconnection’ oil on canvas 152.5 x 152.5 cm 2023

This is my first painting in a series of the Aurora Borealis. In 2023 my son and I cycle toured Iceland for 3 months. We saw the Aurora in several places each time different, they were all amazing experiences. This is from one of the places we camped – Hveravellir as we cycled across Iceland for the second time of this tour. The artwork also includes several constellations placed as accurately as possible including the crescent Moon So this artwork is in two paintings, a diptych of sorts, being much larger and not hinged. The paintings are hung together with a small gap between
‘Magnetic Reconnection’ oil on canvas 152.5 x 152.5 cm 2023, íslenska hjólaferð 

Magnetic Reconnection. Oil on canvas 2023 £5280