Framed Print - Rockpooling On Shaldon Beach - Gary Hesketh

"Rockpooling on Shaldon Beach"

Limited Edition Famed Signed Print number 11 of 195

Image Size - 55cm x 45cm

Framed Size - 82cm x 74cm (in white mount with "distressed" cream painted frame)

Gary is a Torquay based artist who studied fine art during the early 1970’s in Liverpool. He then spent many summers in France and Spain sketching portraits.

His influences in the early years were Renoir, Degas and the Impressionists and since then Gary has been studying the works of Turner, plus some contemporary artists such as Richard Schmidt and David Curtis. He now paints coastal images focussing on group compositions of people enjoying family life on beaches, which attract colour, light and animation. His colours are warm and gentle, yet have a contemporary edge.

He exhibited regularly at the Artline Galleries in London in the late 1980’s which led to a one man exhibition of figurative work, entitled ‘London Café Life’. This featured his studies of café interiors in black and white  soft conte pencil. Many are now in private collections. During the 1990’s Gary has been focussing on oil paintings of Malta, Devon and Cornwall. The almost architectural compositions of old Malta with its honey coloured stone reflecting in the blue of the Mediterranean create a warm palette and always with aspects of life going on so as not to make them impersonal. Most recently, Gary has been exploring new work based on light and the light handling of oil paint, reminiscent of the Artist Francesco Gaurdi who used thin oil paint with dramatic effect. Gary’s work is available as originals and limited edition prints.