No adventure seems quite as romantic as voyaging around the British Isles on board a vintage sailing boat. From the wild sand dunes and windswept marshes of Suffolk to the towering sea stacks and wildlife-rich waters of the Shetlands to the hidden coves, precipitous clifftops and sparkling beaches of Cornwall, the UK’s varied shores are a ceaseless source of inspiration for a landscape painter.
Perhaps the only way to trump this vision for many artists would be to have a loved one at the helm and a sketchbook to hand. And for printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding this fantasy is very much a reality, as she spends most of her summers at sea with her husband, Mark, capturing the wonders of the country’s charming coastline. “I live about as far from the sea as you can be,” explains the Rutland-based artist, “but we have a little wooden boat we keep on the Suffolk coast, and we spend quite a bit of the summer on that. That’s the watery element that inspires my work.”
“You always see nature very closely when you’re on the water with it,” she adds. “It gives you time as well. When I’m on the boat I can really concentrate on drawing and thinking about the images that I want to create.”
Yet with a studio overlooking a field of grazing sheep at the bottom of her garden, slap bang in the middle of the East Midlands countryside, Angela’s more permanent surrounds still feed into her art – and it is these scenes that have remained at the heart of her output.
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Still life IN 3 HOURS
Former BP Portrait Award runner-up FELICIA FORTE guides you through a simple, structured approach to painting alla prima that tackles dark, average and light colours in turn
Movement in composition
Through an analysis of three masterworks, landscape painter and noted author MITCHELL ALBALA shows how you can animate landscape composition with movement
Shane Berkery
The Irish-Japanese artist talks to REBECCA BRADBURY about the innovative concepts and original colour combinations he brings to his figurative oil paintings from his Dublin garden studio
The Working Artist
Something old, something new... Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL has expert advice for balancing fresh ideas with completing half-finished work
Washes AND GLAZES
Art Academy’s ROB PEPPER introduces an in-depth guide to incorporating various techniques into your next masterpiece. Artwork by STAN MILLER, CHRIS ROBINSON and MICHELE ILLING
Hands
LAURA SMITH continues her new four-part series, which encourages you to draw elements of old master paintings, and this month’s focus is on capturing hands
Vincent van Gogh
To celebrate The Courtauld’s forthcoming landmark display of the troubled Dutch master’s self-portraits, STEVE PILL looks at the stories behind 10 of the most dramatic works on display
BRING THE drama
Join international watercolour maestro ALVARO CASTAGNET in London’s West End to paint a dramatic street scene
Serena Rowe
The Scottish painter tells STEVE PILL why time is precious, why emotional responses to colour are useful, and how she finds focus every day with the help of her studio wall
Bill Jacklin
Chatting over Zoom as he recovers from appendicitis, the Royal Academician tells STEVE PILL about classic scrapes in New York and his recent experiments with illustration
