Roanna Carleton Taylor

  I was brought up close to Roundhay so this is a place that means a lot to me. There are some things you paint and know they are a one off and others that you know you’ll paint again and again throughout your painting career. And Canal Gardens in Roundhay Park will be one of mine most often visited. There was a lot about this painting I liked. The building works better than I had hoped, the fountain on the water is great and after many attempts I got the brick work to be the colour I remembered from my childhood. Not necessarily the actual colour but that’s me developing as a painter and painting what I want to see rather than copying from a photograph. The flowers were great fun and again a lot of this was from other sources and imagination as my source photo was in the autumn and I wanted to paint it like I remembered on a Summer day. I was particularly pleased with the flowers on the left and the depth of the flower beds and shadowing. What didn’t work well in this painting is ...

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There wasn’t a lot about this painting I liked. The sky is all wrong for the shadows on land. The hill lacks texture and depth. The fence is very 2 dimensional and the perspective on the road at the side is totally off. The trees are ok but that’s a bit of a ‘phoned’ in performance. Lazy of me. Samme with the grass. I got halfway through this are realised it wasn’t working out so finished it quickly and moved on. I think it is a view I will revisit in the future. After a bit of time elapsed I could see where the mistakes were and how to fix them. I”d change the composition for a start. I’d pull it all forward and to the right so the boring road doesn’t take up so much space. I’d make the Tor less central and closer so I could add some details. Better detailing on the foreground and fence would work too.