Art by Simon Bland

Archive of Paintings: other

Welcome to the archives of selected paintings showing how my style and technique has developed over the years. Newest works are shown first.

Landscapes Animals Dogs Horses People

Rooster

Rooster. Oil on linen approx 11x14 .

Gray Light

A small portrait of a sheep. Set against a diffuse gray background, the painting has a heavy, textured paint application.

Sheep Purple

A close up look at one of the sheep on a local farm.

Gloucestershire Old Spot

A painting of one of the pigs at Ayrshire Farm in Upperville, VA. The painting is currently drying and will be ready for delivery in March 2016.

Rabbit in Yellow

A painting of a rabbit, one of the group that used to live in our yard in Virginia.

Rabbit

A painting of a rabbit done with a limited palette

Rooster Head

Oil painting of a rooster at George's Mill in Lovettsville, VA.

Nimrod

A painting of a rabbit that I found munching on grass in our yard late one afternoon.

Piletina

A chicken at Willow Hawk Farm in Lovettsville, VA

Kuku

An oil painting of a chicken at George's Mill Farm in Lovettsville, VA. 'Kuku' is the Swahili word for chicken.

Wicket

One of our local rabbit population. He still had his winter coat and looked like an Ewok, hence the name.

Portrait of 817

An oil painting of a holstein heifer (No 817), a member of the herd at Rocky Pointe Farm in Point of Rocks, MD. This is not a good photo of the painting!

Chicken Sunday

A chicken at Riverside Potomac in Lucketts, VA. I painted this with an emphasis on contrasting color and texture.

Eros

Eros the ram, a resident of a local farm in Lovettsville, VA

Folk Art Chicken

A small painting of a chicken done as a study of color relationships and paint application techniques.

Separate Light from Shadow

A study of a rooster's head. This is the rooster at George's Mill Farm in Lovettsville, VA that I painted several times in the past.

Study of 806

A study of a Holstein cow at Rocky Pointe Farm in Point of Rocks, MD.

Weatherlea Ram

Ram at Weatherlea Farm in Lovettsville, VA. I started this painting as a workshop demo and finished it back in the studio. I later discovered that his name is Cassidy.