Welcome to Threlfalls’ Art
Peter and Caren Threlfall’s aim is to provide easily accessible artwork @ affordable prices. Working in their home studios in a small village on the Lancashire/Cumbria border, Peter and Caren’s extensive portfolios reflect the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape, flora/fauna and coastal scenes.
Peter paints mainly using acrylic and Caren’s works are textile based.
All are textural and primarily vibrantly coloured. New works are regularly added to the website and commission requests are welcomed.
Peter Threlfall
Peter loves to capture the fleeting movement of light as the weather shapes the landscape below it with a sense of movement and freedom.
He works quickly and spontaneously, mainly using acrylics, sometimes watercolours. Peter likes to let the colours fly.
All Peter’s works are originals, never prints. He paints listening to music, particularly Pink Floyd or Radiohead, which puts him into a rhythmic painting zone once a brush is in his hand.
The creative process is very important to Peter, often painting from memory rather than being confined to sketches and photographs. He loves creating new pictures.
Peter likes to be brave, different and to steer away from conventionality. He describes himself as a ‘contemporary impressionist.’
Peter creates pictures of the Cumbrian coast, The Lake District and its mountains, families enjoying time by the sea at Arnside, with bright bursts of colour and energy, often full of primary colours.
Cadmium reds and yellows, vivid oranges, verdant greens, cerilean blues and golden ochres -never black.
Peter likes to think that his paintings make people happy.
Caren Threlfall
Caren delights in capturing the diverse world of nature.
From wild landscapes to colourful rock pools and seascapes, harnessing the beauty of flora and fauna. Caren uses wool and silk fibres in a ‘painterly’ way, creating warm and textural felt ‘paintings.’
Using different fibres as if they were paint on a brush, building them up over several layers. Once happy, Caren applies warm soapy water and a lot of elbow grease, rolls the piece until the fibres shrink and knit together forming the finished piece of felt. Free machine embroidery is then added to add definition.
Caren also creates a number of art works using different media including; Silk painting, batik, mixed media and mono print in acrylic.
Her colour palette is often vibrant. Inspiration is never far away for Caren.
Her home studio overlooks a stunning landscape of undulating Lancashire fields surrounded by dry stone walls. With the glorious flat-topped peak of Ingleborough, Yorkshire, in the further vista. When working from ‘the PIER Gallery’ Arnside, Cumbria, Caren has a view of the majesty of Morecambe Bay framed by a gorgeous floor to ceiling bay window.
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