My new painting is here ! Well two actually . My first is this panorama called "Light show and sausages" Acrylic on canvas . 100x30x2cm.

The story behind this , You have probably heard before . I was at the end of the Lauterbrunnen valley late one evening after a stormy day . They were playing folk music and selling Bratwurst ( sausage) and the smell was amazing . To my right there was a huge waterfall crashing down thousands of feet . In front of me the sun suddenly lit up patches of the mountain for a second or two at a time and to me it seemed like musical notes being played .I spent a magical ten minutes with the camera chasing it and then it was gone .

This is the second , "Tension" acrylic on canvas 91x61x2cm .

I hope you like them :-)

I now have twitter , I would love it if you followed me and dropped me a hi !

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I should probably blog more right ?

I forget I have a blog !
I have lots to update .
I am a terrible internet user !

So . News . I have updated my studio and I have a canvas store big enough to fit my large mountain paintings in . I have had my artwork printed on Christmas cards for Tiger Time and the David Shepherd wildlife foundation and plenty of those sold last year to raise money for endangered wildlife . I also had the great honour of being invited to be guest artist at this years David Shepherd Wildlife artist of the year awards at the Mall Galleried London . My paintings hung next to David's and that was a very proud moment for me . I also was invited to attend the awards evening and corporate event and it was all great fun .
All the artists this year were invited to paint a postcard size original to raise funds for the foundation and mine was one of the first sold which makes me really happy .

I have had the summer off from painting to just hang out with my family and we had a great time visiting museums , playing in the sea and losing an awful lot of 2p's in the amusements :-D
Now it is Autumn and time to get back to work .
There is a brand new canvas in the studio and I have some brand new ideas I want to play with surrounding the colours grey , yellow , and neon yellow . I think I want to explore abstract and painterly juxtaposed with traditional alpine painting .
It should be fun !

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Part one of my new paint storage in my studio . All my acrylic paints where I can easily reach them and see quickly what I have run out of .

Well , its been a while since my last post . without going into things too much , its been a sad difficult and delightful time and I am much stronger than I ever knew . Since I last bogged I have won the David Shepherd Wildlife artist of the year "Wild Places " award  twice more . Three years running is a rather good record I think . :-) I have also been featured in Kent today  , leisure painter and David shepherd wildlife matters magazine . The Competition has even been covered by the wall street journal . Its a great thing to be part of .
Next thing for me ? a studio revamp . The old design isn't working for me and over the years I have changed the way I paint .
This is an exciting time . I have been developing my printmaking skills and can now carve both linocut and woodcuts and I have a new range of greetings cards and postcards out with more to follow . I plan to list everything on my etsy shop in the new year . Links will follow .
 Hope you all had a great christmas and I wish you a happy new year .

My new years resolution ? to get organised and get art done :-)

Painting update

Its coming along . I added some thin white drippy paint and its beggining to gain mass . I can see shapes i can use and its exciting at this point .

This is the latest progress on my new large canvas , SIlberhorn . It wont stay so drippy , im using acrylic in wet washes at the moment for transluscency . 150x100cm .

Leasure painter article

I am in Leasure Painter magazine . There is an interview with the winners of the Wildlife artist of the year award in which I won the wild places category . Out today :-)

Swiss trip 2011

Back from two  weeks in the Swiss Alps It was amazing , thankyou to my hosts Peter and Annaros  Muhlemann for making it special .

Whist I was there I took thousands of images which im still editing and filing  and I managed some plein air watercolour and graphite sketches .

Snow leopard

Next painting up on the wall ( I hang the canvas there to paint ) is a snow leopard . I wont share it yet because the background is at the uncoordinated messy stage and it hasnt got its fur on , I will update with a progress report when it looks a touch more presentable . :-)

Work in progress . new painting . new website !

My new official website is http://www.sevinayates.com/ . come and visit  , leave tracks in the guestbook please ! I love your feedback .

New painting , oil on canvas 150x100cm . The Alp is the Monch in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland , Its part of  a new UNESCO world heritage site . Im letting it sit and dry for a bit whilst I decide wether to add a flock of Alpine Choughs . I see these birds all the time at altitude and it feels a bit naked without them .

Comments ..

To everybody that commented on this blog , thankyou ! for some reason (techincal ineptitude?)  i cant answer your comments , blogger keeps signing me out aagh ! so i just wanted to say thankyou  ,  you are appreciated . as soon as i can figure it out i will answer , promise ! .

Category win

I forgot to update , ive been so busy . My painting Melting Jungfrau was shortlisted for the David Shepherd wildlife artist of the year award in the Mall galleries London this june . It not only sold on the night but also won the wild places category :-)

Exhibition info

Hi all , i will be having an Alpine art exhibition in Sheerness Library in Kent during march this year . exact dates will follow soon . Please drop in to see it of you are passing and sign my visitors book ! :-)

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

Missing mountains

This is a pastel quickie sketch of a photo taken by Jessica V burnett .

beach sketches

Some quick soft pastel sketches done on the beach today whilst searching for crystals and fossilised sharks
teeth .

En plein air switzerland sketchbook

My sketchbook is erratic , what goes into it pleases me personally and is never for sale because the images in it are not finished pieces , but rather an ecclectic collection of images that inspire me in some ways . it may be shape or colour or it may be simply the only thing i can see in front of me at the time .  I learn by doing and i do it in my sketchbook . These are in soft pastel  , pastel pencil or acrylic .

vulture

Title "Chaos Range Master "
24"x24"  acrylic on canvas 
This one was a lot of fun to paint :-)

She is getting there

SHE

She has the wild in her eyes ....

But she has no tail and no background and she needs some fur adjustment and some tweaking but its coming good now im starting to see what it can be .