Hummingbird Among Blossoms
Capturing a Moment in Motion The challenge with a subject like a hummingbird is its sheer speed. In reality, the bird is a blur of energy, a creature that rarely pauses long enough for the human eye to settle on…
Vibrant City Street
Observing the Neon and the Shadow: Thoughts on City Street In this recent piece, Vibrant City Street, I found myself focused on translating energy into structure. The challenge of a vibrant city street lies not in rendering every window or…
Sunflowers Under a Midday Sky
Working with the Noon Sky There is a particular challenge in painting a midday sun without losing the weight of the sky around it. With Sunflowers Under a Midday Sky, the focus shifted away from a delicate, traditional landscape toward…
Butterfly in Green Background
Finding Balance in Contrast When I began working on "Butterfly in Green Background", the initial challenge was not the subject itself, but how to handle the heavy interaction between opposing sides of the colour wheel. Red and green carry a…
Hot Air Balloons
Working with Form and Weightlessness There is a particular challenge in capturing inherently weightless objects with a medium as heavy and physical as oil paint. When I began working on "colourful-hot-air-balloons-gordon-powles.jpg", my focus wasn't simply on the bright colours but…
Lavender Sky Desert Landscape
There is a specific quality of light that occurs just as the intense heat of the day begins to lift from the desert floor. In Lavender Sky Desert Landscape, my aim was to capture that brief, quiet transition. The focus…