Category Archives: Cycle tour

New drawing from my three month cycle tour of Iceland

This drawing began as a simple idea – to draw my bike in Iceland, even before I finished that thought the idea had grown into some a bit more challenging.

The drawing is composed of 10 A2 panels fixed together. This was such a fun project and is the first of many.
Panel 4 shows my son cycling away to our next wild camp. Panel six by inference has me looking at the landscape with my bike
The title is …….
‘Welcome – To The Desert – Ódáðahraun desert – Vatnajökull National Park Ísland’. Graphite and oil on card height 71 cm x Width 402 cm.
This is a low resolution image and was a challenge to image. I did so by imaging each panel separately and joining each image together, being extremely careful to match up tones and edges as best I could.
….. The drawing is not for sale ….

New drawings from mine and my son’s cycle tour of Eire

New drawing inspired from mine and Aaron’s cycle tour of Eire. This is a view of the Glacio Karst landscapes on the Atlantic coast of the Aran Islands …….

Glacio Karst – Oileáin Árann agus aigéan atlantach No.1 graphite on card 43×61 cm 2024

This is a low resolution image, High resolution images are available and the artwork is available to buy, Ltd. edition prints are also available, contact me if interested.

 

 

 

New drawing inspired from mine and Aaron’s cycle tour of Eire. This is a view of the Glacio Karst landscapes on the Atlantic coast of the Aran Islands …….

Glacio Karst – Oileáin Árann agus aigéan atlantach No.2 graphite on card 43×61 cm 2024

This is a low resolution image, High resolution images are available and the artwork is available to buy, Ltd. edition prints are also available, contact me if interested.

 

 

 

 

More drawings from Iceland

From mine and Aaron’s 3 month cycle tour of Ísland. One of our many wild camps. This is almost in the centre of Island. There are no shops, no convenience stores any where near. We took ten days of food with us. We did not need to take any water as all the rivers have pure drinking water and so we could refill our water bottles along the way. It was the best cycle tour we have ever done.
‘Self Portrait with bikes and Tents. Ísland’ Graphite on card. 61×43 cm 2024.
From mine and Aaron’s 3 month cycle tour of Ísland. One of our many wild camps. This is almost in the centre of Island. There are no shops, no convenience stores any where near. We took ten days of food with us. We did not need to take any water as all the rivers have pure drinking water and so we could refill our water bottles along the way. It was the best cycle tour we have ever done.
‘Self Portrait with bikes and Tents. Ísland’ Graphite on card. 61×43 cm 2024.
Do you have any memories of adventures you would like to see as an artwork ….. I do commissions ….. so get in contact for more info.
A new drawing of mine and Aaron’s cycle tour of Ísland . This is close to another wild camp and one of the many volcano’s we cycled past. This one is called Herðubreið This type of volcano is a tuya which is a flat topped volcano situated in the northern part of Vatnajökull National Park, in the Highlands at the east side of the Ódáðahraun desert and close to Askja volcano,. The desert is a large lava field originating from eruptions of Trölladyngja and other shield volcanoes in the area. Cycling here is extraordinary. To cycle through ash fields and lava plains littered with ancient …. and not so ancient debris thrown out from volcanic eruptions ….. here and there evidence of life in the form of small brillantly coloured wild flowers …… surrounded sometimes in silence except for the sound of the tyres on the ground was amazing ……
‘Herðubreið – Ódáðahraun desert – Vatnajökull National Park Ísland’. Graphite and oil on card 61×43 cm 2024.
Two Portraits – Between Herðubreið.and Askja. Graphite and oil on card. 64×164 cm. 2024
Comprised of 4 individual panels attached and reinforced on the back. From mine and Aaron’s three month cycle tour of Island.
The shadows of myself and Aaron are important referencing the transient nature of our journey and our philosophy to leave a place as if we had never been there …… leaving nature as we find it ….. with no traces …. absolutely no rubbish or equipment left behind.

First artworks about Skógafoss Ísland

Cycle touring Ísland was immense, the best cycling experience of my life and I can’t wait to go back. For now It is time to play catch up. I was cycle touring Ísland with my son for 3 months a Skógafoss Íslandnd we cycled the ring road and crossed the centre from East to North and North to South. And of course cycling the ring road it is impossible to miss Skógafoss. But that is just the first waterfall in a series of 30 waterfalls all spectacular. Here are my first small artworks about Skógafoss

 

 Skógafoss Ísland No.1 Oil on prepared paper 40.5 x 50.5 cm 2024 £125

 

 

 

Skógafoss Ísland No.2 Oil on prepared paper. 40.5×50.5 cm 2024  £125

 

 

 

Skógafoss Ísland No.2 Oil on prepared paper. 40.5×50.5 cm 2024  £125

 

 

 

New drawings from my 3 month cycle touring artist in residence in Iceland

New drawings from my 3 month cycle touring artist in residence in Iceland

 

I will be adding drawings to this blog post over the next days and posting larger art works as they are finished to future blog post’s . These are from Askja in the Vatnajokull national park. We cycled across Iceland twice, and if you are not aware then know that there are no shops …. no convenience stores ….. no fuel stations …. no bus stops ….. no trains …. we took with us enough food supplies to last us 10 day’s and we got it just about right …. on our eleventh day as we rejoined the ring road we had a couple of cupa soups to keep us going until we reached a campsite. Water was no problem though. You can drink from almost any stream or river in Iceland

 

Cycle tour – Ísland No.1 – Father and Son – Two Portraits. Askja Ísland . Mix media graphite and Oil paint on board 2024 No.1 (not for sale)

 

 

Cycle tour – Ísland No.2 Father and Son – Two Portraits. Askja Ísland . Mix media graphite and Oil paint on board 2024 No.2 (not for sale)

 

Cycle tour –  Ísland No.3 Volcanic Landscape Near Askja mixed media graphite and oil paint on board 2024 £250.00

 

 Cycle tour – Ísland No.4 Volcanic landscape  Near Askja Ísland . mixed media graphite and oil on board 43×61 cm 2024 £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland   No.5  cycling across island on our way to hveravellir 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024 £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland   No.6 Cycling Across Island on our way to Askja 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024 £250.00

Cycle tour – Ísland No.7 Near Hveravellir 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024  £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland No.12 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024. £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland No.11 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024. £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland   No.10 Vatnajökull Glacial Lagoon. 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024. £250.00

Cycle tour – Ísland No.9 Vatnajökull Glacial Lagoon 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024. £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland   No.8 Vatnajökull Glacial Lagoon 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024. £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland   No.13 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024 £250.00

 

Cycle tour – Ísland   No.14 43×61 cm mixed media graphite and oil on board 2024 £250.00

 

 

Cycle tour Wild Flowers in a volcanic Landscape – Ísland No.17 2024 £195.00

 

 

Cycle tour Wild Flowers in a volcanic Landscape – Ísland 2024 £195.00

 

 

 

 

 

New painting – Hveravallir Geothermal Area, Island. Oil on canvas 76×152 cm 2024

Hveravallir Geothermal Area, Island. Oil on canvas 76×152 cm 2024 £2500

 

 

Inspired from a three month cycle touring artist in residence in Iceland. This is Hveravellir geothermal area about half way across Iceland. During the tour we cycled the ring road and crossed the centre twice. It was the most extraordinary cycling of my life. This painting is available direct from me and you can e mail me at doms598@aol.com

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