Work
About Me
Hi, I’m Kev McTomney. I live in mid-Wales among the hills, close enough to the sea to satisfy my love of the coast.
While I am primarily a landscape and seascape oil painter, I love to paint and draw a diverse range of subjects. I paint what interests me in life and take my inspiration from where I am and how I am feeling.
I paint everyday in my home studio and take my camera everywhere I go to collect source material. You never know is going to inspire a painting.
News and Journal
Swan, lake (and some big cats)
I was working on a cloud painting, it was going to be all about the cloud. A bit of horizon, maybe some water to reflect the cloud. Then this
Cader Idris in Four Parts
The legendary Welsh mountain of Cader Idris is a powerful source of inspiration for me. Cader’s steep flanks exact a cost on the legs and lungs, but the shape
Indigo
I wrote a science fiction novel, and it’s an absolute riot! It’s true, I wrote a book. It’s a seat of your pants roller-coasting ride through an alien invasion,
Spring 2022
I have been attempting to find an honest route to abstracting landscapes and seascapes, without losing their identity, in as much as all painting is an abstraction, as is all experience. For me, the difference in what I am attempting now is to deliberately seek a way towards achieving a greater level of abstraction in my paintings, rather than attempting something akin to realism.
