A sense of nature in its truest form

Alistair Erskine was born in 1959 and has balanced a career as a freelance decorative artist working alongside many internationally renowned designers with his personal passion for painting outdoors.

He has the ability to observe both land and seascapes and captures colour and mood in a manner that imbues his small scale works with the sense and an interpretation of nature in its truest form. With a driving ambition to convey a sense of place his works draw heavily on light and tone. His early work was pure in terms of the representation of nature with little reference to the human, however the artist’s development in his most recent series of fishing pictures from the banks of the River Test combine his passion for fishing, capturing the subtlety of light and shade of the chalk streams of Hampshire and Wiltshire whilst introducing the human form in the most delicate manner.

Bold still life pictures

Within his oeuvre perhaps the most surprising are the bold still life pictures which draw on his Scottish roots and his admiration for the Scottish colourists; with blocked colour and strong outlines these pictures are fresh in both palette and observation, conveying the delicacy of nature through pure and brilliant colour.

Further information

Alistair Erskine - Previous Exhibitions

• 2011 Official Tour Artist for TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall's visit to Portugal, Spain and Morocco
• 2010 Solo exhibition 'En Plein Air'. James Harvey British Art
• 2007 Browse and Darby Gallery Artists Christmas Exhibition

An exhibition of recent work by Alistair John Erskine
Glebe Gallery at Donnington Priory, Oxford Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2JE
From Friday 16^th November – Tuesday 20^th November 2018
Opening hours:
Friday 16^th November, 9am – 5pm
Saturday 17^th November & Sunday 18^th November, 10am – 2pm
Monday 19^th November & Tuesday 20^th November, 9am – 5pm

For further information:
James Harvey | 07775 567591| james@glebegallery.co.uk |www.glebegallery.co.uk
Glebe Gallery, Glebe Farm House, Charlton, Wiltshire SP7 0EL