Pollen Bay 3. Maggie LaPorte Banks. An expressionistic mixed medium landscape painting.

Maggie LaPorte Banks
Pollen bay 3.
W. 80 cm x H 60 cm
Unframed canvas panel.
Acrylic and mixed medium/sand

Insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look

This Ballyliffin seascape/landscape was painted in Donegal at Pollen Bay. Ballyliffin.
Ballyliffin was where the Irish sailed to America during the potato famine, and is now famous for its golf course, and stunning beaches.

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.