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Landscape artist Andrew Barrowman works en plein air, creating a number of sketches and seeking out alternative views of familiar places.Andrew uses a variety of dry media but favours charcoal. He enjoys the subtle tones that can be created by this wonderful medium. He works tonally and prefers to build up his drawings quickly and energetically with random mark making, without using lines that res …

Roger Dellar's enjoyment of painting is the process rather than the end result. It is about finding the subject and letting it emerge. He enjoys the surface created, the brushwork and the differences between lean and fat paint. He wants the painting to read from a distance as reality, but close up to be a series of marks. With composition, he likes this to emerge by looking for the spatial qu …

After years of working with pastel, Sheila Goodman's approach has gradually changed and developed. In the last few years, Goodman has studied more abstract work as she tries to convey the essence of the landscape in simplified forms. She uses colour to express the atmosphere of her subject - sometimes using colour themes to enhance the mood. Working broadly and simply, Goodman begins by obser …

Born and raised on Guernsey, Tony Allain uses the fluidity of mark making to encapsulate the essence of a time and place, inspired by his surroundings. 'Allain's passion is always landscapes, hoping to share the colour and light of the world he interprets, from the early morning sun to the late afternoon glow. As an artist, he lets his surroundings reveal itself before he compiles his vision …