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AT the start of the meeting, our chair made some announcements regarding the arrangements for the drawing workshop at the Palace Theatre on Saturday, May 10 and reported on the success of the exhibition at the Redditch Art and Heritage Gallery.

She then introduced our speaker and demonstrater, Paul Powis, whose topic was "Vivid Acrylics".

Paul briefly explained his development as an artist.

Having trained as an abstract artist, he spent some time in a number of university and college teaching posts before becoming a full time professional artist.

He retains an interest in education through his demonstrations and painting workshops but is mainly engaged in his work for galleries and the production of fine art prints and graphic work of all kinds. Landscape is his favourite subject and, although his paintings are figurative, the abstract properties of landscape are explored and are a strong influence in his work.

He showed us a selection of his paintings, explaining as he did that he frequently revisited the sites of his landscape subjects to view them in different lighting conditions and to fully exploit their possibilities. Accurate reproduction of landscape colours was not felt to be all important, the choice of colour was a subjective process and had to contribute to the atmosphere and design of the picture.

Paul had prepared two sheets of heavyweight Bockinford paper by painting them with a dense layer of acrylic, the first with a warm, red based colour and the second with a cool, blue grey colour. The first painting was to be of a Worcestershire landscape and the second, a coastal estuary scene. The layout of each paintings was sketched in and both paintings advanced stage by stage with Paul working on one while the other dried.

As he painted, he explained his painting technique and what he was aiming to accomplish with each stage of the paintings.

In each case he refined the shapes and colours until he was satisfied with the picture as a design and then refined the details.

This entailed work on the shadows, reflections, highlights and textures and touches of light to resolve the form of wooded areas on the skyline.

The demonstration produced two very impressive pictures and the large audience, 59 in total, showed their appreciation of a very stimulating presentation.

Our next meeting will be at St Luke's Memorial Hall, Evesham Road, Headless Cross on Wednesday, May 7 at 7.30pm when Mr Leonard Thompson will discuss and demonstrate "Painting on Silk".

Supported by Redditch School of Art Trust through Redditch Arts Council.

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