Category: Painting
Sentinel
Embankment
Embankment shows a wooded section of an earthwork (the outer rampart) at Danebury Hill, an impressive Iron Age hill fort near Andover in Hampshire. I have been told that the entire site was, not that long ago, almost entirely woodland. The council have since cleared…
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Blue Twist
Solo
Savernake Beech – SOLD
White, mid-grey and black: a simple and effective treatment for this venerable beech tree. Drawn using Molotow All4One Hybrid Acrylic marker pens. Savernake Beech hybrid acrylic on A4 paper mounted in ice-white card to fit 16 x 12″ frame SOLD “Savernake Beech” was painted for…
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Forest Cathedral – SOLD
There is an oak tree in Savernake Forest called the Cathedral Oak. It gets its name from its enormous, hollow trunk, into which we can peer through one of several narrow cracks or windows. Looking up at the massive branches framing a bright spring sky,…
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Winter Beech – SOLD
This is one of a line of beech trees that stands atop a local chalk ridge. My painting was based on a photograph that I took on a clear, bright winter’s morning, looking up into the branches. I used acrylic paint from the tube and…
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Winter Oak – SOLD
This oak stands next to a disused ford. My painting was based on a photograph that I took on a clear, bright winter’s morning, looking up into the branches. I used acrylic paint from the tube and acrylic marker pens. Winter Oak mixed acrylic on…
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Purbeck Eddies
Looking out to sea from the stoney beach at Winspit in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, the tide creates foam-crested eddies around the rocks. Purbeck Eddies Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm £250