Pond Abstract Paintings

Antique American school modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Adele Riley is a British contemporary land and seascape artist working primarily in acrylic and acrylic inks. Her artistic process usually begins with a loose idea of what she wants to create. She strives to capture the emotional content of the subject, letting the inks create a type of chaos by doing what they naturally want to do. ‘This is an exciting part of the process,’ says Adele, ‘As it always reveals something magical, letting me know what I should do or how I should react next.’ Adele is fascinated by light and colour, believing people connect to colour just as much as to the subject matter. People are drawn to different energies in different colours, and she loves to play with this theory in her work. She often starts her paintings ‘plein air’, sometimes in local forests or on the beaches of Cornwall and Devon, but her passion is to paint intuitively, recalling the light, atmosphere, sounds and feel of a scene. ‘My aim is to capture the essence of a place rather than produce a literal interpretation. I want to create a personal and emotional narrative between my work and the viewer.’ ‘With light there is always colour. I constantly chase light...

original Watercolour on Paper Image size: H:42 cm cm x W:64 cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:54 cm cm x W:76 cm cm x D:.1 cmcm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu image...

"Marshland II" is an Impressionistic marshy landscape en plein air in Hamburg, Germany. Signed by artist in bottom-right corner unframed Artist's statement: Even as a child of 2, I...

"Grass Tuft I" is an impressionistic close-up of a flooded field painted en plein air. unframed signed at bottom Artist's statement: Even as a child of 2, I had a strong affinity ...