Rachel Arif PS

017 - Loch Glass Pink House

Rachel Arif PS

Oil on card, 30x40cm (35x42cm framed)

One of my favourite places to paint. One of the reasons I’m a little obsessed with pink houses. Loch glass Pink House, AW 22. The "pink house" at Loch Glass is an abandoned building, officially...

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016 - Dinan, France 18

Rachel Arif PS

Oil on paper, 20x20cm (30x30cm framed)

I was going through old family photos of holidays spent in Brittany and came across one of a street scene in Dinan. It was summer 2018, at dusk, the day had been very hot, I painted it sketchily and...

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018 - Pink Sky, Lancashire Village

Rachel Arif PS

Oil pastel, 20x30cm (35x28cm framed)

Little cottages near to where I grew up in rural Lancashire, possibly old farm houses, in Summer 23. They were slightly rackety, the sky was pink overhead.

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017 - Constable Suffolk Sky, Southwold

Rachel Arif PS

Oil pastel, 30x20cm (30x40cm framed)

Oil Pastel painting, tried to capture the light in Southwold last autumn, sunset. Thinking of Turner and Constable using Burnt Sienna to capture the light.

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017 - Red Lumb Farmhouse

Rachel Arif PS

Oil, 20x30cm (25x35cm framed)

Near to where I grew up up, there’s an area called Red Lumb village, old derelict houses and a working farm. I took reference photos but this was mainly intuitive and from memory when I painted it. ...

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016 - Hazy Blue Clouds over Rochdale Tops

Rachel Arif PS

Oil, 15x25cm (20x30cm framed)

Painted partly outdoors at the end of the summer (2024). The plan was to attempt to finish it but as can be the case in this neck of the woods, it started pelting it down, so finished some minor...

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015 - Little Fish

Rachel Arif PS

Oil on board, 20x30cm (25x35cm framed)

A little fish I decided to paint earlier in the year. It was on a platter in a fish and chip shop in Aldeburgh. I was drawn to the iridescence of its skin and the light casting orange and brown...

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016 - The Juggler

Rachel Arif PS

Oil on Fabriano paper, 15x15cm (25x25cm framed)

Taken from several reference photos from my daughters summer show. I attended her performing Arts show in Paris. There was a French Gentleman juggling. I liked the nostalgic feel to him.

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018 - Southwold Harbour Sketch

Rachel Arif PS

Oil pastel on paper, 28x28cm (35x35cm framed)

An engergetic and textured Soft Oil Pastel sketch. I use Senelier as find these to be superior when 'working' the pastels. Detail of Southwold Harbour area Autumn 23.

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017 - Landscape Study/Baked Moorland

Rachel Arif PS

Oil pastel, 20x20cm (30x30cm framed)

Drawn in the studio from reference photos. This is of rural farmland in Rochdale where I grew up. It had been a particularly hot month so the ground was baked in parts, unusual for this neck of the...

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