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Newtownabbey, T1 - United Kingdom
Dave Mawhinney - Fine Artist
Member Since: 08/28/2009
I am primarily a landscape painter concentrating on Irish scenes with occasional departures into abstract and expressionist themes when the mood (or wine) takes me. Skies and clouds are a bit of an obsession - I believe in looking up rather than down - and feature strongly in many of my works.
I studied photography at Belfast Art College in the '80s, learning the nuances of composition and an appreciation of light. My training in painting followed at the East Antrim Institute.
I believe in working fast to capture the mood and essence of a subject and rarely go back to rework a piece - if you don't like the outcome don't go back over old ground, get out a blank canvas and start again. I find I get my best results if I spend time thinking the project through before starting - I can spend a week planning and from the first stroke on the canvas to finished work may only take three hours of painting.