With the current Facebook campaign to promote art in the form of paintings I'm discovering and being pointed at lots of interesting painters. However those trying to capture mountains are often cliche views lacking the empathy us climbers and adventurers enjoy with these wild places. I'm aware of some climbers who paint like Chris Parkin, but can anyone direct me to other great famous or obscure painters who have depicted mountains in a way that we can identify with?
In reply to kevin stephens: Jamie Hageman and Ginger Cain are too literal for my taste. Art should not be just tracing over photos but communicating what photos can't capture. I'm sure Cezanne would have done a brilliant job if he had endured a cold mountain bivy but like most artists he would have just viewed them as backdrop to a more immediate foreground.
In reply to kevin stephens: They aren't very fashionable nowadays but the watercolours of W Heaton Cooper were the first mountain paintings that I saw that caught the atmosphere of the Lakeland Fells.
> I'm sure Cezanne would have done a brilliant job if he had endured a cold mountain bivy but like most artists he would have just viewed them as backdrop to a more immediate foreground.
Kyffin Williams was an outstanding Welsh landscape painter whose work is often of Snowdonia.
My personal favourite is James Wheeler, whose specialty is Pennine landscapes in a semi-abstract style, though I have seen a few of his featuring Skye.
Mine was an impulse buy in the Y capel gallery/tourist information in Llangollen. They have some really nice Welsh mountain landscapes, though not always Malcolm Edwards stuff
http://www.robfairley.com/ Rob used to guide and has spent a lot of time in Nepal, hence a lot of his work is of Nepalese people but I have to say some of his mtn scenes are fantastic. I have a preference for his more impressionistic works.
I have a few by local (Leek) landscape artist David Hunt, including one of Hen Cloud, but maybe Gareth Buxton is more what you are looking for. Acrylics, almost abstract, but very atmospheric of moorland tops and edges:
We have one of a storm on Curbar Edge, with a contrasting Dave Butcher photograph of a storm approaching the Curbar millstones - similar subject but dissimiliar in every other way.
I'm sure Cezanne would have done a brilliant job if he had endured a cold mountain bivy but like most artists he would have just viewed them as backdrop to a more immediate foreground.
Not at all - his series of paintings of Mt St Victoire are widely considered as the starting point for abstract art
In reply to kevin stephens:
Julian Cooper's work is brilliant. I'm yet to find a modern artist of his caliber. The mountains really jump out at you yet the detail is brilliant.
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