Robert Phillip Jones

Lovely painting - it reminds me of walking through glenveigh National park in Donegel - lovely colours in the foreground and detail and the lovely softness in the sky - can hear the crows or maybe a golden eagle soaring in the wind....

Like this a lot Robert you can feel the struggle to walk down. Love your sky too

Excellent painting. Really good use of acrylic. Smashing sky.

Very many thanks for all your comments. This painting was bought for my nephew by my brother; and he must have appreciated it, because the brother is not easily impressed, nor inclined to give his little boy anything he wouldn't give himself! I think the sky was surprisingly successful - I actually added a little Paynes Grey to Ultramarine; didn't expect it to work at all, it was a total experiment: but I think it worked. Bet it wouldn't work again, but there we are........ I hardly ever use Paynes Grey or black; I think this was just the smallest touch... Sometimes these things work, and sometimes they don't: it's not a mix I would ever have recommended! By the way Norah, you wouldn't find Golden Eagles here, but there are Peregrine Falcons and, increasingly, buzzards on the Undercliff near Ventnor, Isle of Wight. The bird in this painting is almost certainly a buzzard - but it wouldn't mind at all if you called it an eagle, I'm sure.

Actually, looking at it again, I think it was Ultramarine plus a touch of Payne's Grey (plus white obviously) on an imprimatura of burnt sienna. I add this for my own benefit, since I'd quite like to replicate it!

Great to get those tips for the sky, thought of eagles as we spent a couple of hours last sept just watching a golden eagle soar over the hills in Donegal and this painting reminded me of that day, will bring sketch book next time :) did you ever use a touch of green in skies - can work well especially for stormy skies.

Yes, now and then - sometimes you get a duck-egg blue/green at the horizon, and I have achieved that with a mix of white, viridian and raw sienna; at least, I've done that in oil ... I might try it in other media and see how it works!

Very good indeed!!.... I perfer payne's gray over black most of the time.

This has got to be my favourite of all of your paintings. I like the contrast in the foreground and of course that wonderful sky. Thanks for your comments on my blog. I would have answered on yours but I couldn't find it. Not a very integrated site is it? Yep, I like a REAL watch. Don't like stuff around my wrist (or neck). Its a battery driven fob watch. No winding (always forget). I have a weskit for most occasions. Tomorrow, at the opening of my solo, I'll be wearing my sunday go to meetings weskit. Black without pastel dust or acrylic spatter. I don't pay for exhibitions. I'm lucky enough to have wall space at a commercial gallery and I enter open events in the more affluent areas. My sales haven't been huge (8 this year). It's more about getting known and covering a wider area. I'm oping for more representation as my reputation grows.

Alan, thanks for this. It's one of my favourites too, and happily for me, my brother bought it for my nephew; so I can claim visiting rights.. My blog can be found under New Start - I'd give the URL, if I could remember it, but that should find it. As it happens, I have a request for Links to my site out at the moment, & would be very happy if your site was amongst them. My watches (4, provided they're all working) are wind-up jobs: I like to think we're mutually dependent.. Though I do have a battery one as well: which is out of battery.

Hi Robert, Love this painting!..it reminds me of an area here in Australia, up in the High Country. You are obviously an accomplished artist, as you display a wonderful application of style and colour to your painting. When did you start painting? Are you formally trained, or self-taught? What part of England are you from? I was born in Cornwall, but immegrated to Australia in 1956. See, fulkl of questions ( must be my police background!) Nice work, mate!

Police? I didden do it; and anyway I was wearing a mask at the time.... Cough, shuffle. En reponse - I actually started painting, in oil, around 40 years ago but only in the last 2 years have I taken it seriously, exhibited, sold work; I read a lot (somewhat too much, as I have a tendency to over-theorize!) in the years when I was doing other things, kept up my drawing, but didn't paint much at all. Now, I resent any time spent not painting. I didn't go to art school, but on the other hand I had help from other artists, advice etc, and, as I say, read a lot. I was born on the Isle of Wight and still live here, and the above picture is (slightly loosely) based on the landscape within about 2 miles of where I live, in Niton Undercliff, near Ventnor. I have a website by the way, www.isleofwightlandscapes.net (which is also new this year and still a work in progress). And there we are. Most grateful for your comments!

Love it mate! Great painting!...a little like my style, me thinks! Seriously, a wonderful painting. Good for you!

I love this painting,Robert. Great sky and I love all the detail in the foreground.Where is it?

Hallo Geraldine; it's a consequence of erosion, of the chalk cliffs at Knowles Farm, near St Catherine's lighthouse on the Isle of Wight, ie very near the island's most southerly point. I did tweak it a bit to bring out the form, but essentially that's what it looked like when I finally got to the bottom of the path. Knowles Farm is a large area of cliff and coastal downland owned by the National Trust, very much cut into and undermined by a combination of erosion and landslip (ie, you can get down to the beach, but only by abseiling down a rope: which I'm afraid is now beyond me).

Just picked out my favourite of yours to pop in and thank you so much for your genuine kind comments on my success this year. It really has been amazing.

A wonderful work love the rock and I'm glad you put life and limb at risk to get this painting...congratulations on the sale

Hi Robert found your work, just finding my way around, love the landscapes and the rythm in the marks, Brian

I like the colours in this one Robert and the way it leads you into the painting to follow the path to see what's over the hill. Georgie

Lovely Lively work