Watercolour Artists Gallery - Sam Austrin-Miner

Watercolour Artist:

Sam Austrin-Miner

Watercolour Gallery - Sam Austrin-Miner (click images to enlarge.)

Sam paints using the traditional techniques of watercolour (refusing to use Gouache or body colour) with a varied and loose style often employing the use of washing out and texturing the image with staining. Born in 1966 Sam Austrin-Miner was educated privately in Hampshire where he met and was tutored in traditional watercolour by the late David Holmes. He left his foundation year in Art during the mid 80's to live in Scotland eventually studying Philosophy and Theology for five years in Edinburgh University.Travelling widely in the past 15 years he has gathered inspiration from all over the world.

"His work is moody and melancholic, capturing both weather and light through a deep range of earthy colours. "My landscapes have to be about mood and texture, the two must go together.."

A Note From Sam

"I have always attempted to capture the harsher elements of landscapes. Scotland can be a moody, wind swept, and very wet land which is especially hard to lay down on paper in a way that really captures the mood.

It is my hope that my paintings capture something of the natural beauty of Scotland alongside man-made elements..."