Paul Gadenne
is a Canterbury-based artists who is equally at home working in watercolour, acrylic and oil. He is a chartered designer with a background in commercial interior architecture and exhibition design. Paul has been a design lecturer at Hastings College of Art and taught graphics and design at St. Edmund’s School in Canterbury for over 20 years. Paul’s paintings are in public and private collections in the UK and abroad. He currently teaches art classes for adults of all abilities in Dunkirk and Sandwich, Kent. He is the founder member of Urban Sketchers Canterbury and has appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2015 and 2021. www.gadenne.co.uk
Unless we have the time, weather and patience to study a city painting. While there is great merit in painting what was there on the day, the odds are that it had flat lighting in the middle of the day, it was overcast or even raining! We don’t all live in the locations that we want to paint so have to rely on photographs taken during a fleeting visit, taking a chance that the lighting and weather gods are in our favour. They rarely are! But we are painters not photographers, we can alter lighting angles, weather conditions, traffic, people, in fact anything that will help our composition and add drama.
