St Cwyfans Church, Anglesey Painting

Mike Carter is a Cardiff based figurative painter specialising in landscapes. Mike studied Fine Art in Cardiff and was taught by Terry Setch RA and Michael Crowther. He is influenced by painters as diverse as Franz Kline, John Piper and contemporary landscape painters such as Kurt Jackson. "As a landscape painter I'm looking to convey a mood, the atmospheric effects of light, the changes in weather and the seasonal cycles. I use photography and sketches as a method to record but the photographs and drawings are only a starting point. I combine different materials charcoal, black ink, acrylic paint and oil paint to create a range of effects and marks. "