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.
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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.
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 …
Sunset at Port Gaverne
Pastel | 5.25 x 8.5 inches Usually my pastels are quite tight and detailed but I freed myself up in this one. I tried a metallic pastel in the sky and in different lights it shines a bit.
Golden evening
Pastel | 4 x 6 inches I painted this pastel from an oil I had sketched on location. The view is from Port Isaac to Port Quin – showing Doyden Castle and the shimmering bay beyond. I also completed this scene in a watercolour; each medium offers something different to this beautiful subject.
Dog walk Mundesley
Pastel | 3.75 x 6.75 inches Usually if it looks to be a nice sunrise I cycle down to Mundesley and get photos or paint down on the beach. If I’m lucky the fisherman will be heading out, or the tide will be out giving beautiful reflections in the wet sand. I added the figure …
