“I love to paint outdoors and spend as much time as
possible under the sky.”
Carl Longmate is a dedicated plein air painter. Carl is a man of few words and
prefers his painting to speak for him.
The sheer quantity of what he has created is almost an overkill of pleasure. There
is nothing complex about his visual interpretations of the natural environment that
his work easily occupies.
They are realistic but very a specific transcription that his ‘eye’ sees and his hand
conveys of what is in front of him. They are not copies or photographic - there
would be no point to that - Carl has a style that is as natural as the ‘subject’ he
paints which is generally the area where he lives.