Northern Exposure

This was my version of the Northern Lights. I will do this again as there are so many different combinations of colour that are found in the Northern Sky when the lights can be seen and I want to capture as much as possible. This is one of my favourites. I adore the use of shadow and light in both paintings and photographs. Sometimes a simplistic colour scheme brings about the most dramatic results.

Stormy Sea

I was commissioned to do this painting for a friend of mine. We grew up in the same small town and she wanted a painting of the shore where we used to spend a lot of our childhood days. There is something incredibly nostalgic about looking at this. The lightning was her idea after the painting was already finished. I thought I might ruin the sky by adding it (and nearly did), but in all, I think it enhances the emotion of the picture. I love painting water. It has so much motion and variation of colour.