Paul Corfield Autumn Releases

M P Gallery are proud to be able to offer the new releases. Newly arrived into the gallery are seven brand new pieces by this very talented landscape artist. The new release includes ‘Sunlight Over The Tree Tops‘, ‘The Tree Lined Pathway‘, ‘Summer Nights‘, ‘Dawn‘, ‘Dusk‘, ‘Sunrise Over The Village‘, and ‘The Way Home‘

From Palette to Picture

“I tend to have either sketching days or painting days. I rarely mix the two and instead prefer to channel all my creative energy into one or the other. Sketching days will be an all day affair where I put on my headphones, fill my head with my favourite music and the ideas start to flow. If nothings happening I’ll change the style of music, maybe some rock or something very soft – I have a very wide range in musical taste. Some days maybe only one sketch will be any good and some days I’ll scribble one after the other. Often I rub out lines and rearrange everything until I get a good feeling that the idea is going somewhere. My sketches are fairly complete and I often project them onto the canvas in the transition to starting the painting. Projecting the sketch onto the canvas allows me to copy all the lines and get the exact same feeling on the canvas that I originally had in the sketch. It’s a technique I used to use in my photorealist works for getting all that detail. Once drawn onto the canvas, which in my case is usually a smooth French linen, I then cover the whole canvas in red/brown wash just to get rid of all that white space. I find the wash is just a nice colour to paint over too. The painting is built up in layers of paint that are just scrubbed roughly onto the canvas. With each painting I don’t really have any preconceived ideas on a colour scheme, it just sort of happens along the way, almost sub consciously. I use a very limited palette of colours, usually just a couple of reds, a couple of yellows, one blue and white. From those limited colours I quickly get any colour I want. The painting builds up quickly, the layers go on roughly to get a rustic feel, I wipe colour off and blend them with rags. This goes on for around 4 or 5 layers, there’s always a definite end point when I just think yes, that’s finished. I never go back and fiddle with any part of the painting, I just sign it and then it’s on with the next one. Each painting takes on average four days to one week depending on the hours I can put in on any given day. I used to work on just one painting at a time but now it’s up to two. I stagger them slightly so that I have to mix a new palette depending on which one I’m working on and this avoids having them both use the same colour scheme.”

Paul Corfield