About
Mike Carter BA Hons, is a Cardiff based painter specialising in landscapes. Mike studied Fine Art in Cardiff and was taught by Terry Setch RA and Michael Crowther. He is influenced by a wide range of painters both contemporary and historic.
Mike has been exhibiting frequently in Wales over the last few years. He was also selected for the RA Summer Exhibition in 2017 which helped re-confirm his ambitions as a painter.
"As a landscape painter I'm looking to convey a mood or a memory of a place. I find the point where the land meets the sea the most interesting in terms of basic geometry and the continuously changing light and weather conditions. I think this has an emotional connection to my childhood where I lived right on the South Devon coast near Plymouth. Some of the landscapes from this time inform my work indirectly even now.
During the last few years I’ve become interested in building up the surface of my paintings. I’ve gradually been making more heavily layered works using atypical mediums almost as a way to represent the sedimentary layers found in the landscape. A protracted process of building up surface textures using a range of materials such as charcoal, chalk, wax, sawdust, blank ink, raw pigments, acrylic and oil paint has become a fundamental working method for me. It allows the possibility for chance to play a part in the formation of a piece. For a history to develop within the work. Layers are built up, removed and reapplied until the work starts to come together or reveal itself.”
Selected Exhibitions:
2020/ Group Exhibition of Welsh Artists, Lime Tree Gallery Bristol.
2019/ Summer Exhibition, The Albany Gallery, Cardiff.
2019/ Summer Exhibition, Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol.
2019/ Summer Exhibition, Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, North Wales.
2019/ Summer Exhibition, White Space Art , Totnes, Devon.
2018/ Summer Exhibition, The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth, Northumberland.
2018/ 4 Person Group Exhibition, The Albany Gallery, Cardiff.
2017 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.