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Suggested title: ‘Afternoon Stroll on Trearddur Beach’.
You painted a beautiful place. I like the mood of this painting Gareth and the vast expanse of sand still wet at low tide. It feels like a nonchalant Sunday afternoon on a cool, bright autumnal day by the sea.
It’s interesting that you feature several people, some couples, perhaps a family with a young child and a lone person walking on the beach. Is it important to feature people in your landscapes and are these people known to you?
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Thank you Nath. I really like that title and have decided to use that for this painting. But I also received a lot of great titles and so I will make some more versions of this painting and use all those fantastic suggestions.
Yes, it really is a beautiful place – although the weather is very changeable. In regard to people, for me, the focal point of the painting is often the human figure even though I love landscapes. I know one incredibly successful landscape artist in Japan and he uses no figures. But I just love the human figure and feel it adds such a dynamic and essential element to a landscape – I could be wrong, but that’s just how I feel.
Thank you Gareth for choosing my suggested title and for replying to my question.
Like you pointed out, landscape painters seem to fall in two camps, the ones that want to feature the human form and the ones that prefer creating landscapes without people in. When you look at paintings you start noticing some of these elements and they reflect the sensibility of the artist. As such, I think they are both valid points of view.
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Hello Gareth
I was taken back by the beauty of this scene. The water looks liquid and gentle. I love the water by the rocks in the front, it has movement and feels right. I see you found a name which is wonderful, I was thinking Gentle Waters… ? I’m not a professional Art person but those are my thoughts. Again, Hope your future is full of happiness and success! Blessings, DawnMarie