Landscapes

This year, I’ve taken a step slightly outside my comfort zone and entered Sky Landscape Artist of the Year . It’s something I’ve considered for a while. Like many artists, there’s always a hesitation — timing never feels quite right, and there’s always more work to do, more ideas to develop, more reasons to wait. But at some point, you realise that waiting doesn’t really move things forward. So this year, I decided to go for it. For those unfamiliar, Sky Landscape Artist of t

As artists, we often believe we need every colour on the shelf to create expressive, vibrant, or realistic paintings. But in professional practice, the opposite is often true: the most versatile palettes are the most focused ones . After years of experimenting with dozens of pigments, I finally refined my working setup into a cohesive, efficient, and powerful 13-colour oil painting palette . This set is designed for portraits, cityscapes, landscapes, and mixed subjects , and