Online Shop Launch!
I now have an online shop on my website. To keep things simple to start with, I’ve stocked it with a number of small, original works on paper that make great Christmas presents…
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Filigree – SOLD
This third beech tree in Selborne Hanger has a remarkable little cavern beneath its exposed roots, probably due to erosion. The roots form an open lattice – a “filigree” – over the space on the uphill side. The tree is at the foot of the hanger,…
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Enigma – SOLD
This very distinctive and characterful beech tree sits on the lip of a hollow in the hillside at Selborne, its triangular mass of exposed roots gracefully supporting it. I started to draw it on A3 paper but it didn’t feel right, so I switched to…
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Selborne Beech – SOLD
The village of Selborne in Hampshire is known as the former home (now a museum) of the eighteenth century naturalist Gilbert White. It also has a rather splendid beech hanger (a hanger is a wood on a steep slope). I recently spent some lovely time in…
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Harlequin (West Woodhay Down)
Last Wednesday was warm and dry, perfect weather for sitting on a hill and painting. I decided to find another open access hillside, and settled upon West Woodhay Down – about 12 miles distant, and a place that I had previously walked and sketched but…
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White Hill – SOLD
The warm weather tempted me out again to Stubbington Down. This time, I climbed to the top (it’s very steep) and made my way round to the left so that I had a rather different view of Cannon Heath Down. The painting’s name, White Hill,…
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Vale (of Kingsclere)
This was painted, en plein air, in the last of September’s sunshine. There is a convenient patch of access land on the steep slope of Stubbington Down with a view across the rich farmland of the vale of Kingsclere, looking west towards Beacon Hill and…
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Gathering the Deep: about the title
In the main post for this painting, I mentioned the dramatic stacking effect of the waves. It brought to mind some half-remembered words concerning a fearsome ninth wave: Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep…
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Red and Gold (Savernake)
Savernake Forest near Marlborough in Wiltshire is a large, privately owned, area of ancient woodland that is open to the public 364 days of the year (the single annual day of closure allows the owners to retain the property). The forest car park is at the…
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