Devon and Cornwall – Channel 4 – Enjoy the coast in all it’s splendour!
Rugged sea cliffs, winding coast paths, wide open sandy beaches with clear blue seas crashing onto the sand. Dramatic expansive skies. Come and join me as I explore and paint along the North Devon coastline in tonight’s episode of the Channel 4 television series “Devon and Cornwall” Monday 29th June at 8pm. Beautifully filmed at […]
Happy New Year!
With the sun set on another year, I wish you happiness and health as it rises today! Happy New Year!
Winter Warmers – Sunsets and Surf
“Winter Warmers – Sunsets and Surf” “Winter Warmers – Sunsets and Surf” are a special item for this time of year leading up to Christmas. These are compact original paintings brimming with joyous colour to warm your daily lives and brighten up your walls during these Winter months. For a limited time period of […]
Glassy wave watching series
How many times have you lost yourself in the moment watching glassy, smooth waves calmly rolling onto a sandy beach? One of the joys of being an outdoor painter and a surfer, is the double pleasure of studying waves. Surf checks merge into swell inspired painting sessions. The combination of soothing sounds and reflective […]
Enjoy the beach every day of the year!
2020 Steve PP Fine Art Calendar. Contemporary Coastal Impressionist paintings by Steve PP. Enjoy a different Steve PP painting for every month of the year. Ready to hang on your wall. Twelve gloss images, spiral bound one per month on 230gms paper. Each month comes with a month to view planner below the painting. *Calendars […]
Further on down the coast
Ten reasons why I love working outdoors and painting from nature – Part Two. What does being a painter on the North Devon coast mean to me? 3. “Step Outside”- Combesgate Beach Getting out of your comfort zone. Getting out of your comfort zone can really test you. This one definitely took me to the […]
Ten good reasons to love the North Devon Coast
Come on a journey with me to discover ten reasons why I love the North Devon Coast – Part One. Ten good reasons to love the North Devon Coast. Inspired by journeys along the South West Coast Path searching for surf spots in the 1990’s as a 30 year old surfer. I revisited ten of the […]
Where is your happy place?
Just the delicate tinkle of a tiny wave occasionally cascading across sand made from millions of broken shells, ground into shiny pieces that glint in the early morning sunshine. The far cry of a gull soaring on the sea breeze that is still cool, seaweed briny smell hanging in the air. This is my happy […]
Bring some colour from the coast into your home.
As we near the Christmas holidays, I look back on a year that has been full of colour from the coast. A long hot Summer, filled with a plentitude of beach painting days. An Autumn that involved a trip to the beautiful lake District, to paint live in front of thousands of people over […]
Happy Summer Solstice!
So today is the Summer Solstice. The word solstice comes from latin words sol (sun) and sistere (standing still) because the path of the sun seems to come to a stop before moving back the other way in direction. I always get confused when it’s described as Midsummer’s day. This is because Midsummer comes from […]