ABOUT

Geoff Sellick

Geoff Sellick painting outdoors at a table with paint cans, brushes, and a canvas, surrounded by coulorful plants and flowers.

Being a designer constrained by rigid lines and practicality the paintings are a way for me to break free from these restrictions.

I have a small ethical design gallery and store supporting local crafts, also selling a curated selection of products from around the world that use reclaimed or sustainable materials or techniques.

The artworks often celebrate views on and from Dartmoor, the rivers and seascapes. I am surrounded by water, and this is very prevalent in my work.

I am a designer by profession having spent more than 35 years working in architecture, interiors and furniture design I have recently taken to painting images that are imbedded in my self consciousness.

Having spent the majority of my life living in South Devon between the Moors and Coast the paintings are inspired by the local landscapes, and the ever changing light and colour

The paintings are impressions asking and empowering the viewer to interpret their own imagery and stories behind the paintings. I work in Oil with cold wax and other mixed media and textures.

Close-up of Geoff Sellick painting, with greenery in the background.
Close-up of an artist's hand using a roller brush to apply blue and green paint on a palette, surrounded by various tubes of paint, brushes, and painting supplies on a wooden table.
Geoff Sellick holds a landscape painting of a lake with a cloudy sky, grassy shores, and distant land, in an art gallery with framed colorful landscape paintings on the wall.

My subconscious has built up images over my life leaving a visual encyclopaedia of atmosphere, colours and visual scenes of rolling fertile fields and baron craggy tors.

The peace and quiet of the moors, the tranquillity and ebb and flow of the sea water as it breaks on the beach, the movement of the ever-changing estuaries and quickly changing weather are all abstracted into an impressionistic style. My paintings are images which although imagined, are abundant in my local Devon countryside.

I work in oil paint and cold wax medium on paper which enables me to be freer and less constrained about the results. 

Applying layers of oil and a cold wax mix I gradually build up layers and textures using rollers, spatulas, and palette knives, then scrape away areas to reveal the colours below. 

I often like to emphasise and exaggerate colour to give a more uplifting image, sometimes starting with areas of gilding wax to give an additional depth, light and vibrancy.