The Art page

I find most modern art depressing. A lot of current art seems to be shapeless blobs, blocks of stone stacked up, or -even worse- dead animals preserved. My definition of art is a picture/scene that I can look at and admire, and know that I could never paint it in a million years. My mother was a watercolour artist, and, I think, a very good one, and I suppose that is why I enjoy looking at watercolour landscapes. I find it amazing that these pictures are built up with just paint and water. I often wish that it was a skill that I could attain. However, I do not think that it is purely a technical skill, the artist has other depths in being able to see colour/light in a very different way to those of mere mortals (like me).
I often enjoy looking round my local picture framing gallery, and whilst in there came across the work of Alan Ingham.
Alan is a water colour artist, and a superb one at that, painting pictures of his native Dales and recently the Cotswold Hills area.
It is perhaps because some of Alan's work is local, and because I have actually been to most of the Cotswold villages painted that I find the pictures so enjoyable. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. I have included 4 pictures on the following pages, representing the seasons for you to have a look at. These are my personal favourites.