Pastel, signed and titled verso. ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Unfinished pastel, 17¼"x25". Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastel, 16¾"x25¼", signed. Ex. Angus Rand's Studi Collection. Although depicting a winter's day, Angus Rands has drawn this pastel when it is bright and sunny, showing the snowy landscape at its most beautiful.
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Pastel, 17½"x27½". Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastel, 14"x20½", inscribed and dated Aug. 1985 verso. Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastel, 15"x21¾", inscribed and dated 1982 verso. Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastel, 14"x21½". Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastels, 14"x21½". Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastels, 14"x20½". Ex Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastels, 11"x16¼". Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Pastels, 13"x20¼". Ex. Angus Rands Studio Collection.
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Pastels, 13"x24". Ex. Angus Rands Studio Collection.
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Pastel, 17"x25", signed. Ex. Angus Rands Studio Collection.
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Pastels, 17"x24", signed. Ex. Angus Rands Studio Collection.
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Patels, 13¼"x20", signed. Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection. (I can't get a good photo og this without glare. Most of the Rands have a small area of glare down the left hand side, but nthis one has it throughout)
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Oils on reversed canvas board, 9½"x21½", inscribed and dated Aug 1978 verso. Ex. Angus Rand's Studio Collection.
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Oilpainting on canvas, 20"x29", signed; inscribed and dated verso.Ex the artist's collection.
What tactile pleasure Angus Rands must have derived from painting this landscape! A wonderfully free piece of plein air painting, it captures the essence of a summer's day in the North Yorkshire countryside.

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Oils on canvas, 20"x30", signed; inscribed verso Sept (19)77, Arkendale.
A wonderfully freely painted plein air oil by Angus Rands, showing a Land Rover with camouflage markings parked in rough grass. Beyond it men are working in a cornfield, the bright primary colours of their vehicles and machinery making them a strong focul point. An interesting post war harvesting scene.
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Oils on board, 15.5"x 29", signed by Angus Rands, bears artists studio label verso.
The picture is painted in lively, thick brush strokes using the fresh, light colours of Spring and with bright highlights of reflected light contrasting with the heavily shadowed banks of the stream in the foreground. A man and a tractor stand on the newly turned soild of a field in the middle distance.
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Angus Rands was born in Ilkley, but later moved to Harrogate. He is best known for his pastels and watercolours of the Yorkshire Dales. He contributed to The Artist and Leisure Painter. Although trained in pharmacy, he became a professional artist in 1960. He was elected a member of the Pastel Society. He exhibited at the Mall Galleries and other galleries in London and the North.

He often uses very broad strokes of pastel or oil to build his landscapes, giving them them a plein air vibrancy and life. He introduces the acid yellow of oilseed rape into many of his Spring and early summers farmland with a sureness of touch which integarates this relative newcomer into the English landscape.

Rands excells at depicting cloud, light, wetness and snow and shows amazing empathy with the keynotes of all the seasons.