Category Archives: Cycle tour

New painting …. Storm at sunset Brechiek Ynysek Syllan.

Storm at sunset Brechiek Ynysek Syllan. Oil on canvas 76×153 cm 2023

 

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 nature, each other and ourselves. It teachers us about our fundamental responsibility to nature.

 

 

 

 

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 – Storm Eroded Basalt Columns Reynisfjara Beach Island.

Storm Eroded Basalt Columns Reynisfjara Beach Island. 76×152.5 cm 2023, íslenska hjólaferð

 

In 2022 with my son we cycle toured Island for three months cycling the ring road and crossing the center of Island twice. This is the third in a series of paintings inspired from this journey.
The artwork is a response to nature, exporing our connection with nature, more than that, it explores landscape and seascape in the broader context of how weather systems develop, how we as a species affect the world, 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 life and the universe. From this philosophical point of view consciousness is the universe becoming self aware, holding a metaphorical mirror up to itself and asking the question what am I. Then a choice of how we treat nature arises, as we are nature it is in reality about how we treat nature, each other and ourselves.
The choice is yours
Storm Eroded Basalt Columns Reynisfjara Beach Island. 77×153 cm 2023, íslenska hjólaferð

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

New painting ….

 

Eira’n cwympo ar Glyder Fawr. Oil on canvas 96×170 cm 2023

 

New painting – first in a new series about my cycle tour of Iceland

Reynisfjara black sand beach Iceland Oil on canvas 90×180 cm 2023, íslenska hjólaferð

 

 

Reynisfjara black sand beach Island was an amazing place. We camped close by and went to have a look at the basalt column cliffs, The sand was as fine as any sand but eroded from the basalt cliffs, the stricking contracts at all time of the day was just wonderful. This painting concentrates on looking into the storm from the shore, there will be many more which will feature the basalt columns and the basalt sea stacks ……. Oh and this first painting ….. is the small one

 

 

 

Reynisfjara black sand beach Iceland. Oil on canvas 90×180 cm

 

 

 

New painting …….

The sun converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into 596 million tons of helium every second, releasing energy at the mass energy conversion rate of 4.26 million metric tons per second. Oil on canvas 76×152 cm. 2020.

 

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 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.
…. The choice is yours ….

 

The sun converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into 596 million tons of helium every second, releasing energy at the mass energy conversion rate of 4.26 million metric tons per second. Oil on canvas 76×152 cm. 2020.

 

New painting – Sol Winter Storm No.2 February 2023 Oil on canvas 96×195 cm £3500

Sol Winter Storm No.2 February 2023 Oil on canvas 96×195 cm £3500
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 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.
…. The choice is yours ….

 

Sol Winter Storm No.2 February 2020 Oil on canvas 38×77 inches £3400

New painting – Storm Brechiek Ynysek Syllan. Oil on canvas 77 x 153 cm 2023.

Storm Brechiek Ynysek Syllan. Oil on canvas 77 x 153 cm 2023.
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 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.
….The choice is yours ….
Storm Brechiek Ynysek Syllan. Oil on canvas 77 x 153 cm 2023. 32500

New drawings

…. A whole bunch of new drawings and more to come …. having great fun with these, dipping in  and around lot’s of memories from the cycle tour ….

 

These first two are from our cycle tour of Eire – Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai The drawing is made of several pages from the same sketchbook attached and the drawing folds up into the sketchbook. This was a Moon lite walk along the beach close to where we were wild camping and the wreck is of the schooner ‘The Sunbeam’ built in 1860 and wrecked in a storm in 1903

 

Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai Graphite and graphite wash ink and pencil on paper 27 x 104 cm 2023

 

Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai Graphite and graphite wash ink and pencil on paper 27 x 52 cm 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…. Here is a link to my youtube channel for a short video of one of my many drawing books ….