Steve Osgood Watercolourist
Travel may broaden the mind and certainly sharpens the eye. Besides revisitng old favourites, I’m still descovering new places to visit and always adding to an archive of by now perhaps some 400 watercolours.
Watercolour is the medium of preference for most pleine-aire painters and is a distinguished tradition for English travellers abroad. While the camera records everything in complete and perfect detail, the painter selects the essence, eliminates the irrelevant and aims to record the story and the specifics of a place with an economy and simplicity that is timeless in its message.
The pleine-aire presence also provides an immediacy and freshness which is hard to achieve in a studio and the availability of good paper, a wide range of quality colours and brushes all assist in portability, at the same time challenging the painter to exploit the unique characteristic of the medium. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this souvenir aims to entertain in a contemporary manner.
Boats
Boats I have been in and out of boats since my teenage years, only selling Cicada, my last sailing cruiser in my late 70's. This...
Peloponnese
Peloponnese The classic history of the region in the south west of Greece is all around one, and its edge to Mare Nostrum in its...
Andalucia
Andalucia The Andalus of southern Spain, rich in both arabic and catholic heritage offers an inspiring backdrop to painters. One...