Sunday, August 16, 2020

Landscape series

I have been creating a series of landscapes — oil paintings on wooden panels — inspired by my summer in the South — but also by the continued “lockdown” or whatever we are calling it these days...the isolation, the impingement, the confusion, and the passage of the old and familiar into something new and not altogether welcome.  

Here are the new additions to this landscape collections:



“Pink roof and wildflowers” Oil on wooden panel - 18” x 18”



“A whisper in time” Oil on wooden panel, 18” x 18”


“Road to the unknown” Oil on wooden panel, 18” x 18”

There will be at least another 7 paintings in this series, apart from these and the earlier painting recreated from my time in Tennessee.

These artworks are my way of sorting through this transition we are all going through this year, 2020, where so much has changed, and so much unhappiness was inflicted on us.  I feel my response is to reflect beauty through the challenging days we are in, and to cling to what is truthful and lovely.

Crow in the Mist New oil painting

“Crow in the mist” by Hilary J. England, 12” x 16” oil on canvas  I was out walking along in the cold damp fog the day before the big snow, ...