Peak District Landscapes by Edward Camplin

Riber Castle
Acrylic
20x20cm
£95.00

Bamford Hills
Acrylic
20x20cm
£95.00

Curbar Dusk
Acrylic
20x20cm
£95.00

Kinder Scout
Acrylic
20x20cm
£95.00

Weather Turning
Acrylic
20x20cm
£95.00

Edward Camplin BA born 1957

I paint peak district landscapes in styles between classic and modern on canvases using a mix of acrylics and oils.
Acrylics provide speed and intensity, oils provide the potential for subtleties of colour and glazes.
Painting to me is not about the technique of applying paint to a canvas, it is about the way the eye and the brain knows, interprets and understands the effect of light on coloured surfaces. 
Our image of the world is based purely on reflected light, its colour, intensity, saturation and focus – and to that extent all of it is an illusion.
I strive to emote memories in the viewer of landscapes seen before by the use of what are only, after all, merely two dimensional painted cues. 
I am fascinated with the interplay of light, colour and meaning, our eyes are a part of our brain and what we see with is modelled into reality by our minds and this is what I am exploring in my work.

I often paint with my eyes half closed to stop myself from seeing my brush and finger strokes as patches of paint and to allow myself to see them just as light, colour and form
My Father and his father before him were painters too - I like to think we have all been trying to understand the way we see landscape.

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