The Artist Magazine

Pure magic

Alan Bickley

studied fine art and graphic design at Stafford College of Art and spent many years as a designer and editorial artist in the newspaper industry. He has won many awards in The Artist Open painting competitions and is a regular contributor to the PaintersOnline e-newsletter.

Alan’s more recent work can be seen here:

www.painters-online.co.uk/artists/alanbickley

For an artist, nothing is quite as exciting as the first fall of snow. Couple that with a contrasting vivid sunset and you’ve got the perfect visual combination. I suspect that most artists love sunsets because they present us with the opportunity to exploit those vibrant shades of oranges, yellows, reds, blues and purples, colours that we don’t often get

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