Richard Lannowe Hall
I am a painter and my day job is sailing!
My paintings are primarily gouache on board or paper and mixing gum Arabic to give added translucence, depth of tone and widely varying tones and colours. For some I use collage of other materials in these paintings. I draw on my memories of the experience; in spirit, these paintings reflect my perception of, and my love for, the unique land and seascapes that I inhabit.
I embrace technology as another way of making marks that help me to express my visual
experience of the world.
I work on my iPhone using an App called ArtRage; I start with a photo to outline and set boundaries of the image and then fade that out as I select different virtual tools, pencil, paint, crayon, palette knife etc. to make the marks I want. I then convert image to computer and print Giclee Art prints.
There are limitations but for me the benefits far outweigh them. I am sailing the major part of seven months of the year, The Phone Art gives me quick and easy access to record, sketch and develop images. I can work for a few minutes at a time when circumstances allow and if I don’t like a set of marks I delete!
