Dazzling Light
Pastel | 6.25” x 9.5″ ‘This is one of my favourite views of Venice. I love the film of atmosphere over the lagoon. Pastels worked really well catching the transient light effects.’
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Sun on the Laguna
Watercolour | 5.5” x 7.25″ ‘I didn’t touch this little watercolour at all after completing it on location. Some paintings are better left understated.’
Evening on the Canal
Watercolour | 7.5” x 9.5″ ‘The whole canal took on a lovely golden glow as the sun was setting. I got the photo for this on the first evening as we arrived.’
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The Dark Alley
Oil on Board | 14” x 9″ ‘This is the opposite view from where I painted “A Venetian Back Water”. Scuola Grande Di San Marco is the white building at the end of the alley. The joy of Venice is not having to travel very far for your next painting.’
Southrepps Pigs
Pastel | 3.7 x 7 inches It’s a great subject to try out in pastel with effective lights and darks and vibrant colours.
Just Shellfish
Oil on board | 29 x 20 inches Every time I pass the fish cellars in Port Isaac I think it would make a great painting and now I’ve finally painted it. No detail was left out and the ‘square brush technique ‘ gives the lovely soft edged effect.
Winter skies – Thurne
Pastel | 5.5 x 7.5 inches With paintings like this I think it’s important to include ‘life’ such as animals or people; to give another point of interest in the painting.
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Water meadow mist
Pastel | 6.25 x 9.75 inches Subjects like this are absolutely perfect for pastel. The misty atmosphere, the frost, the stillness and muted colours just work so well.
Raging sea – Port Gaverne
Pastel | 6.75 x 11 inches I initially tried this subject as an oil but I didn’t like it. But it worked perfectly as a pastel. It was a freezing cold morning, mine and my father’s faces ached as the fourty-plus-mph-wind hit it, then almost constantly the sea spray soaked us as we walked along the
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