Landscape Paintings
The Sunflower Pickers
Friday, August 19th, 2011And now, for something completely different.. I didn’t plan it to be this way but this week, while it was snowing incessantly and the entire view outside was tints of white, I was completing a warm, sunny scene I had begun earlier. Sharon had come into my studio a few weeks back and said “Florals [...]
Floral Garden
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011Here’s a painting to lead you up the garden path.
Skippers Canyon Evening
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011Earlier this year I saw a couple of consecutive sunsets which I guessed would probably look quite spectacular from Mount Dewar (the next mountain west of Coronet Peak). I rushed up there the next evening and began the steep ascent – about 80 minutes up from the Skippers Saddle from memory. The skies looked perfect [...]
Lake Tekapo & Historic Church
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011Here’s a commissioned painting I recently completed. Lake Tekapo is in the central plateau of New Zealand’s South Island high country. The water contains a high percentage of glacial melt which colours the lake with a distinct turquoise hue.
Milford Sound Sunset Painting
Saturday, August 14th, 2010I’ve just emerged from working on some big canvases; here’s one of them. It’s very much a favourite place of mine–Milford Sound. This view is from a beautiful mid-spring evening. Being in the southern hemisphere that’s late October.
Manapouri – Eye of the Storm
Monday, August 31st, 2009This is a painting just finished – the size fairly large, at 48″ x 60″ or about 1.2m x 1.5m. The scene is looking out over Lake Manapouri, New Zealand, to the Cathedral Peaks. The stormy sky casts an eerie and colorless light over the mountains and lake, whilst the foreground picks up some extra [...]
Huge Paul Cato Landscape Painting now complete
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Paul Cato Landscape Gallery This large painting is now completed. All 46 square feet of it! It will be delivered to some new clients in the U.S. next week. I have absolutely enjoyed the process of working at this large scale and I’ll definitely be keen to do it again. I have some subjects in [...]
Coming up
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007I’ve been working on a painting which is bigger than I have painted in a while. No pictures just yet, sorry, but I will definitely take time soon to post some images which will show the progress on this canvas. Oh yes, the size – I nearly forgot. This painting is eight feet wide by [...]