Geoffrey Holdsworth - Reproductions

" Reproductions are a great way to buy images of subjects you like and their relative inexpense makes them accessable to most of our budgets. An ordered print can easily be framed and matted to your interior decorating tastes. There are two types of reproductions here offered. An older one is an excellent offset lithograph, and the others, recently produced, are giclee prints; our glorified digital newcomers. My chosen printmaker was found after an exhaustive North American search and his patient work is of the highest calibre. These reproductions, which customers have requested of their favorite works are printed in a limited number, signed and titled. Should you like a print of an artwork not yet offered, an edition can probably be initiated. Let me know. As for "Original Prints", it has been some time since I hand produced any and they are sold out."

This finished oil painting from which the giclee print is being produced, was long in the conception stage. It was preceeded by drawings and a color study all intent in looking at the weather effects after a large snowstorm at a particular sideroad in Huron County, the crossroads of Crediton Road and Elimville Line. Many people think they have seen this place, but I suspect the recognition is due to the similarity of many sideroad vistas.

Terlingua Creek is one of my most favorite plein air watercolors and with others as well. The oil painting version has already begun yet people have requested a print of this color study for which I am happy to oblige in a giclee. Painting atop an aggregate knoll of early spring lupins, cactus flowers, aromatic creosote bushes and a prominent pair of scintillating cottonwoods, I overlook the creeks' meandering ribbon of water in its wide wash and retrace, with my brush, her mountainous origins beyond more verdant cottonwood groves in the shimmering desert basin.

A North American feature in country fairs since the early 1950s on Long Island New York. This painting portrays the event in my own rural community. Perhaps Demo Derbys express a continental and comic love for smashing cars. This image is a compilation of various vehicles entered over a number of years. As a crewmember once I had the opportunity of crumpling a vehicle. My name was MADOGEOFF..., in the blue car at the bottom right of the painting...,and came in second...,grrr.

Canoeing into the Lady Evelyn Wilderness Area in Northern Ontario, I have often pursued a series of famous waterfalls called the Golden Staircase. This is the most recent of four waterfalls I have painted in this remote area isolated by frequent storms and awfully difficult portages. Somehow my spirit thrives in such challenges as this, which required painting watercolor under a pancho in drizzling conditions. In October of 2004 I flew over this area with my father and siblings in a Beaver float plane so they could see where he took us on so many adventures in our youth.

Some places are hard to find and fast to leave. Searching for native grasslands in this patchwork area of private, state, nation and land management sectors I found a remote area to stay in and paint the high plains. However, I noticed that firepits and woodpiles were overgrown by the previous years grasses, prairie dog towns were deserted and rabbits commonly approached me. A wildlife biologist studying Burrowing Owls in the area, soon explained to me that I was in a Plague Infested Area, just like the posted sign said. Apparently the rabbits were resistant to the Bubonic Plague, as was the immunized biologist. Prairie Dogs and Geoffrey were not and the suspected carriers, ticks, had already drawn my blood...