Cherington Pond - Summer & Winter
By Angie Spencer
Original artworks
Oil on board
Framed
Image size: H: 25cm x W:25cm
Framed size: H: 36cm x W: 36cm
£275 each
Angie is an accomplished South Cotswold painter who often paints plein air, carrying her easel and paints on her bicycle, and loves to chart the seasons in the countrywside and waterways near her Stroud home.
Here, she returns to one of her favourite places, Cherington, to record the seasonal light, colours and pond-side foliage in summer and winter, with her usual impressionistic brush strokes to capture water, surface reflections and natural forms.
ABOUT ANGIE SPENCER
Angie was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1959 and now lives in Stroud where she has her studio.
Her paintings explore the beauty of the landscape. She has a particular love of - and expertise in - painting the moving waters of rivers and lakes where she swims regularly throughout the year.
She works mostly in oils ‘en plein air’ and draws inspiration from the Romantic movement and their approach to the landscape. If work is developed in the studio it always begins with plein air drawings rather than with photographs.
“I find that there is no substitute for direct observation. I paint best when I'm immersed in the landscape. There are colours and subtleties in nature that are difficult to imagine in the studio. The direct effects of light and atmosphere can only ever be hinted at in a painting but there is a greater chance of capturing it if one is observing carefully from life.”
Angie graduated with a BA in Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire in 2004. She is also a classical violinist and, currently, is leader of the Stroud Symphony Orchestra, as well as playing in the Capriol Chamber Orchestra and in a string quartet.