The Bath Skyline - Paintings by Jonathan Davies RIBA
Tues 17th - Sun 22nd November 2015: Open 11am - 5pm (Sun 11am - 3pm)
Private View events - Thurs 19th & Sat 21st November (6pm - 8pm)
The Bath Skyline
“I am working on a long-term project - a series of mixed media paintings of the Bath Skyline influenced in part by the poem ‘The Road Less Travelled’. The Road Less Travelled is both literally a description of my work but equally it relates to the way in which all artists find and uniquely express their own creative feelings.
For me it is the hillsides leading out of the city of Bath (with their often wild appeal) that seem to demand an artistic response. These places have a haunting beauty that seems largely overlooked – possibly because of the gravitational pull of Georgian Bath with it’s architectural magnetism.
Initially working outside, I consider the actual scene as very much the beginning of a process where I submerge myself into the landscape in order to create an emotional response. For me it is important that a composition is constructed from what is seen but then goes on to develop its own dynamic that may well be a dramatic reinterpretation of events.
In addition to landscapes I’ve produced some ‘detail paintings’ of found objects in the landscape – such as pine cones, flowers etc. I tend to draw using sticks and dipper pens made from bamboo to create these pictures. I use mixed media including metallic paints and glitter – because these seem to articulate something of our wider contemporary experience.
I am inspired by Turner, Barbara Rae, Peter Lanyon and Fred Cuming.
My work has been selected for a number of Royal West of England Academy Autumn Shows in previous years.”
Jonathan Davies