Blue smoke, Maggie LaPorte Banks, contemporary abstract art, buy original art online

Maggie LaPorte Banks
Blue Smoke
Original Mixed Media Painting
Acrylic, Silver Leaf, Collage and Pen on Canvas
Size: H 80 cm x 80 W cm
This work is a series of paintings exploring shapes and textures and colour to express emotions.

Blue Smoke is an original painting by Maggie LaPorte Banks. Routed in landscape, the shapes suggested by a skeleton on a church in Plymouth, England. The colour blue, promotes feelings of tranquility, strength and inner calm.

Maggie LaPorte Banks artist comments: “My Art is routed in landscape, influenced by childhood memories of Donegal, by Lough Swilly, surrounded by dark mountains. I spent ten years living near to the Brecons Beacons and painting using a tent as a studio in all seasons. For over thirteen years I was an artist in residence in a cottage on the end of Cape Cornwall overlooking the Brisons at different times of the year. Therefore, I have a vast amount of passion for the skies, sea and mountains which I love to involve within my paintings. My recent works have been developed from these roots and are becoming much more abstract, focusing on ‘the essence of place’ through the colours I use and emotions I have created. I work mainly in oils, acrylic and mixed media, sometimes adding unique materials such as sand, carborundum, iron fillings and many other products I feel the work dictates.