Winter's Features

With Christmas been and gone my studio is currently full of life. While I work tirelessly to complete a selection of paintings I intend to enter into a few of the annual painting exhibitions the deadlines draw ever closer! The portrait I am currently working on is intended to be entered into the BP Portrait awards 2012 in the National Portrait Gallery...but I may have to wait until next year if it's not complete in time so watch this space!

In the meanwhile I am continuing to rediscover some of my old favourites and push on with the new studies... Here is a small selection of portraits in the theme of friendship for this bleak but beautiful time of year...(please forgive me friends if yours is not here)

Christian Holder January 2011
watercolour & graphite

Christian Holder, January 2011. watercolour & graphite on paper. Teri Anne Scoble

This is a study I did of my school friend Christian Holder during a luncheon together last year in January.  Christian was a principal dancer in the Joffrey Ballet in New York, it was probably due to his dancing feet that he was a restless model during this study and so I only had thirty minutes to complete it!

Lucy, 25/11/11. watercolour & graphite on paper. Teri Anne Scoble

Lucy 25.11.11

watercolour & graphite

Lucy is one of my most recent studies. On the plea of a friend I have begun to do more clothed life studies... so this one is for you Sheila!

Margaret 11.5.11
watercolour & graphite

Margaret.11.03.11.  watercolour & graphite on paper. Teri Anne Scoble

This study of Margaret always makes another friend smile. She says it is Margaret's warming smile and carefree expression that she loves. 

So, for now I will return to my portrait painting until spring emerges...hopefully with a completed piece in time for the exhibition!

Autumn's features:

Each season a selection of work from the studio of Teri Anne Scoble will be featured here. As Autumn has been slowly descending upon London this month, this season's post looks at time and how the featured artworks have been subject to the passing of time. 

Broken Boat, 2011 

Egg tempura, hair and oil on canvas board.

This painting began its life over twenty years ago, when Teri was at home watching her two year old son, James, play with his toy boat. Recently rediscovered rattling around in a drawer as an unfinished painting , the piece was finally completed this year. Painted in egg tempura on canvas board, Teri used James' original baby hair to add texture to the painting a common theme among her artwork (see Dr Vincent Cable MP in Recess, 2011)

Entered into the Annual Hesketh Hubbard Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London, Broken Boat was voted Best Work in Show at the private view on 1st August 2011.

Broken Boat, 2011. Egg Tempura, hair and oil on canvas board. Teri Anne Scoble

staring into space, 14.10.11

staring into space 1. Graphite on brown paper

staring into space 2. Watercolour on paper

These two life studies of Gale were created within an hour of each other yet the slight changes between both medium and style mean that the small lapse of time between the two has altered the details to create distinctively different studies.

staring into space 1. 14.10.11. Graphite on brown paper. TAS

staring into space 2. 14.1011, Watercolour on paper. TAS

Gone to Seed, 2008
watercolour on paper

Teri decided to capture this Allium plant as it went to seed in 2008. Left to flourish on it's own in the garden as it went to seed the weight of time slowly bent the stem downwards and left the plant leaning casually over the edge of the mug that shelters its roots.

Painted in watercolour on paper.

Gone to seed, 2008. Watercolour on paper, Teri Anne Scoble