another waterlog
more heavy rain this weekend… the rain pelted down, the river swelled, the meadows and fields flooded, the trees and grasses swam for their lives… spring has finally sprung, but it’s looking for all...
View Articlea little something for the weekend
may i introduce to you another small installment in my virtual world travelogue..? here is another mixed media abstract on paper on canvas, in the ongoing series of diminutive travelling icons or...
View Articlethere’s no place [quite] like home
there’s no place [quite] like home… this week i chanced upon making an impromptu visit to a local fen by way of an appointment in the area, but i hadn’t anticipated being caught in a downpour… these...
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in nine equal parts, shown in a random order (some surface incidents) – it takes a perfectionist to appreciate the small imperfections… these nine ‘parts’ together comprise one of my series of small...
View Articleyet another waterlog
we’ve had a little rain over the weekend; yet more studies of water falling on water… looks like rain… very lightly, at first… concentric circles on the surface of the water… more rain droplets on...
View Articleon the surface, water paintings
six water paintings on the wall in my studio, acrylic on linen canvas (20cm x 20cm). i took a couple of these small paintings along to an informal ‘show and tell‘ this weekend. even though these have...
View Articlewould you buy this painting?
[untitled water painting, acrylic on linen, 20cm x 20cm] dear reader, would you buy this painting? it’s never been in a gallery or an exhibition (it has no picture frame) and it’s very unlikely to be....
View Articlefrom a lake, seen [in a sketchbook]
from watching the surface of the water on one fine afternoon in late august, two pencil drawings in a very small pocket sketchbook… sketchbook drawings, first two are drawn from observation, the rest...
View Articleand yet another waterlog
and yet another water log… [the footpath was out of bounds, a lakeside view] [flooded meadows, next to the river, above the waterline] [flooded meadow, approaching snow island, calm waters] [flooded...
View Articlea month of may days
a month of may days… some pages from my current A6 notebook/sketchbook; a slight return to the elements of wood and water (after trips out to the coast and into constable country) [drawing, graphite...
View Articleon painting, something in passing [part one]
previously, in the artist’s studio: this large three-panel painting was painted from memory and imagination, arising out of… numerous small sketchbook drawings and studies of wood bark, trees and...
View Articleon painting, something in passing [part two]
something in passing… [continued from part one] …an intuitive painterly response to sensations of colour, movement, rhythm …and flow. i live near a river, and there are…. [to be continued] maybe others...
View Articleon painting, something in passing [part three]
something in passing (in the studio)… [continued from part two, and previously part one] …fishing lakes nearby surrounded by… many trees, shrubs and grasses. [nearly there… the deadline for completion...
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see, the sea
see, the sea… acrylic painting on watercolour paper, postcard size 10.5cm x 14.7cm
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see, the sea [again]
see, the sea… [again] another acrylic painting on watercolour paper, postcard format 10.5cm x 14.7cm
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there’s no place [quite] like home
there’s no place [quite] like home… this week i chanced upon making an impromptu visit to a local fen by way of an appointment in the area, but i hadn’t anticipated being caught in a downpour… these...
View Articlesee, the sea… [yet again]
sea notes: striations of agitated sand[banks] beneath the sea’s surface, a thin tapering line of violet-grey marked the horizon on one side, the sky palest blue to mauve… and then there was the...
View Articlethe waves
i’ve been reading The Waves by Virginia Woolf (a vintage Penguin paperback). it’s weird how books seem to find me at certain times, they just turn up (or i happen to be more receptive to them), i...
View Articlesurfing
i attended an art photography workshop a few weeks back. we were asked to bring one or two paintings to take pictures of, and i took along this small painting… i used daylight studio lights and...
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