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Erin Ward
Erin is one of Pinkfoot’s latest additions; as soon as we saw her work, we knew it would fit in very well with the Pinkfoot ethos.
Erin studied Fine Art at Blackpool School of Art. As well as oils and acrylics, she sometimes makes quick drawings in watercolours- or anything that comes to hand! Her recent works are inspired by visits to coastal regions, particularly Norfolk, the East Coast and Cornwall, where she spends time walking the coastal paths, sketching mental notes to take back to her studio to work out later.
Take a windy day, with sea salt spray mixing with a strong south westerly or a pale, watery sun setting behind a bank of evening cloud over the moor and you could easily be walking into one of Erin’s atmospheric landscapes.
Light and weather play an important part in Erin’s work. Sometimes it’s not the details of a scene that you remember, but more the colours and light and the way it makes you feel. This is what we see in Erin’s oil paintings.
Erin likes to work from memory, using the landscape as a starting point for a painting, but then letting the process of painting itself take over until it forms the response she’s after.
She paints in an energetic, semi-abstract way using a limited palette; often mixing the colours directly onto the canvas, using rags, palette knives and sometimes her fingers, building up the paint from transparent washes to thick impasto in focal areas.
The beauty of Erin’s work lies in its interpretation, we’ve been amazed at the many different things people think they see in her paintings.
Erin is one of Pinkfoot’s latest additions; as soon as we saw her work, we knew it would fit in very well with the Pinkfoot ethos.
Erin studied Fine Art at Blackpool School of Art. As well as oils and acrylics, she sometimes makes quick drawings in watercolours-
Light and weather play an important part in Erin’s work. Sometimes it’s not the details of a scene that you remember, but more the colours and light and the way it makes you feel. This is what we see in Erin’s oil paintings.
Erin likes to work from memory, using the landscape as a starting point for a painting, but then letting the process of painting itself take over until it forms the response she’s after.
She paints in an energetic, semi-
Erin Ward..... Click on images to enlarge
Summer, Shimmering Light
Golden Light under Snow
Estuary III
Coast Ochre Light
Wild Moor
Light Passage