During my holiday I visit my local gallery Silures gallery in Porthcawl, this gallery gives me inspiration and ideas for my own work. Their techniques and materials were really eye catching, each of them have their own style of painting and drawings. Which has challenged me to create more painting in different ways, that are out of my comfort zone.

Elizabeth Howells.

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Elizabeth Howells is a local artist from my home town Porthcawl. She works with all sort of different materials such as water colour, Pastels and acrylic paints. Her paintings express the mood calm and relaxed with her small soft brush strokes she creates different series of paintings. This painting has been painted in Porthcawl, she used watercolours to paint a seen which shows a late afternoon. I like Elizabeth’s work because it has great colours and the painting it a loss and mot every detailed piece but somehow effective.

                                                             George Goddard

George Goddard also paints and drawings local famous part of Porthcawl, he is from Port Talbot but always seems to draw in Porthcawl. He adds a lot of different colour into his work with this summer night view he has even shown the reflective lighting onto the sand hills using a purple and blue just the same as the sky.  The technique of George paintings is almost the same as Elizabeth’s but they are calm, relax and beautifully painted.
The colours are more controlled and detailed as a beach and a summer night should look like.

                                                                       Pam Murray
                                                          

Pam Murray is from the Rhondda, she has always had a passion for her art from an early age. She mostly paints and draws portraits, to babies to the elderly. She paints the faces in a detailed way and the clothes and the lighting behind the person a rough and method. The facial expresses she paints shows a happy and warm child however the black rough back ground make me think otherwise.
Pam paints people and animals all other the world, she shows different cultures and paints them all differently. I like Pam Murrays work as it is different

*I have chosen to use inspiration from Elizabeth’s work as I have use water colours before and I would like to get to know the feel of the technique. I will use her work and add my own way by using pen to show the shape of things. I will learn from this by practicing more and learning from other artist that use water colours.