EX21

Oil on Board | 12 x 19 inches “It was awful weather at the meet, the rain coming in almost horizontally and bitterly cold. Somehow I managed to get some good photographs to work from. I wrote this poem to remind me of the day: Winds through the fir trees wailed and roared,Mist came down […]

Oil on Board | 12 x 19 inches “I’ve been meaning to paint this horse at Salthouse for some years and I’ve finally felt I achieved the right composition. What a beautiful subject … it was a great challenge to paint the dark and lights on the horse against the sky.”

Oil on Board | 13 x 17 inches “The light on this bull was beautiful; I loved all the lost and found edges in this painting.”

Oil on Board | 13 x 17 inches “I don’t usually like painting clear blue skies in the height of summer, I find the colours too bright and almost flat mainly because there are no soft edges. However, when the subject is this good I just had to work with it. I added some lovely

Oil on Board | 12 x 16 inches “I spent so much time in this field at the top of Church Hill, above Port Isaac, photographing, painting and drawing this herd of cattle. Being up so high, I was able to get the big sky in – just like a Norfolk landscape where it’s usually

Oil on Board | 12 x 16 inches “I came across some great advice on painting fingers ‘only paint one bright highlight per hand, even if you can see more. To many highlights flatten the natural arch of the fingers’. I had this in mind while painting this and found it very useful.”

Oil on Board | 12 x 16 inches “The light on this cow was sumptuous, it wasn’t bright white, there were so many warm and cool lights on her back and so too in the shadow. I find spending so much time around cattle really helpful when I come to paint them.”

Oil on Board | 14 x 14 inches “This is a particular scene I see a lot on our morning dog walk to Port Quin. The key was to have areas of simplicity in the painting, such as the sky, the foreground and the grass behind the cow to keep the painting easy on the

Oil on Board | 16 x 12 inches “The deep orange coloured beaks of the geese really set off the myriad of greys in this painting. Puddles and a muddy track are always so satisfying to paint!”

Oil on Board | 10 x 14 inches “I loved the sunlight and shadows on the distant hills of Exmoor. It gave a lovely backdrop to the horses racing. I wrote this accompanying poem.” Fair weather clouds drift in the sky,A breeze keeps away the gladfly.Blue shadows creep across moors-The alluring slopes of Exmoor. The