Portrait and landscape artist David Sandell began his career as an illustrator, designer and creative director, all of which were built on his ability to draw and sketch. His more than 40 years of creative experience informs the artwork he creates today, from people to animals to sprawling nature scenes and botanicals.
Church Cove, oil on linen panel, 27½ x 59"
Sandell’s process is widely based on classical methods. “I tend to follow a similar process for drawing and painting, developing the painting as a whole in stages rather than completing small sections,” says the artist. “I’ve served at sea. I was also born and raised near it and have lived next to it, so I have always been drawn to the power of the sea…Studying waves can be mesmerizing, but we underestimate it at our peril.”
A Long Day, oil on wooden panel, 30 x 40"
Discussing his oil on linen panel, Church Cove, he says, “Of my many studies, this image seems to convey the evolution of a wave as it captures its various phases, from the spindrift breaking away at the tip of a wave to the reflection off the face of the wave.”
Poldhu Cliffs, oil on linen panel, 233/5 x 233/5"
In Poldhu Cliffs, waves break against a craggy shoreline. “The cliffs around the Poldhu Cove area on the Lizard Peninsula are often subject to collapse into the sea, so the coastal paths can also be dangerous,” says the artist. “This view looks down at the circling seabirds.”
Sandell is based in Kettering, England. —
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