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Watercolour | 4.5 x 6.5 inches   About the painting:“We had a few wet days at the start of our trip to Cornwall. I set up a makeshift studio on the dining room table and decided to work on some watercolours. This was the first watercolour I had painted in quite some time. I enjoyed […]

Watercolour | 9 x 9 inches “I loved the composition of these sheep and, along with the colours, I thought it could work well in watercolour. I loved the soft transition of colour from the oaks and birches that melted into the deep green of the pine trees. It was a real challenge to get

Watercolour | 6 x 8 inches “I loved the light on this little Massey Ferguson. It was a beautiful morning in March, a touch of frost and mist. I enjoyed capturing the sunbeams through the skeletal trees.”

Watercolour | 6 x 8 inches “This is a subject I often see while walking our dogs, but I’m usually too busy keeping an eye on them to fully appreciate it. Funnily enough, on this occasion, I had brought my camera and it was from retrieving one of our dogs from the hedgerow where I

Watercolour | 5 x 6 inches “A great view from St Benets Abbey looking towards Ranworth church on the Norfolk Broads. I still love painting at St Benets … it’s eerie atmosphere and interesting past always intrigues me.”

Watercolour | 6 x 8 inches “Those who are acquainted with me will know that I’m not a great fan of sheep, I can’t even say they taste nice as I don’t like lamb either! However, I do now appreciate these woolly beasts at times, as they do look good in the wintery fields of

Watercolour | 5 x 9 inches “This watercolour was a real challenge and I ended up abandoning my tried and tested technique of one or two washes for a very different approach. I started with the darker colours and then painted over the top of these with as many washes of transparent colour as the

Oil on Board | 12 x 15 inches “The type of subject I spend most of my summers trying to paint – cattle in the mist at sunrise – with varying degrees of success. In these types of subjects, a fine balance has to be found, the colours have to be subtle and understated but

Pastel | 6.5 x 10.5 inches “My final pastel before my 20th birthday which I completed during my exhibition last year. Despite everything being burnt to a cinder, there was such a freshness to these colours as of a day in June.”

Pastel | 6 x 10 inches “It was a lovely afternoon in late August. Big scudding clouds that cast dark shadows that tracked across the land. Warm sunshine with the scent of soil on a cool breeze. The crows swirled from cultivated fields to dark-leafed oak trees. Halfway through this painting I had a feeling