Tag Archives: Travel

Sunset at Minsmere: painting

The vivid sunset experienced at the RSPB Minsmere nature reserve when I visited there last autumn inspired this painting.

Sunset at Minsmere (2016) oil on canvas, 40cm x 80cm

Sunset at Minsmere (2016) oil on canvas, 40cm x 80cm

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Sunset at Minsmere: oil pastel

This oil pastel drawing, Sunset at Minsmere, was inspired by my visit to the RSPB Minsmere nature reserve in the autumn.

Sunset at Minsmere (2016), oil pastel

Sunset at Minsmere (2016), oil pastel

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Seeking refuge: painting including glazing

After another session in the studio, the painting now includes glazes and further work on some details so, Seeking refuge is, I think, now finished.

Going home? (2016) oil on canvas, 40.6cm x 50.8cmcm

Seeking refuge (2016) oil on canvas, 40.6cm x 50.8cm

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Where is home?: painting

Where is home? is my first oil painting that touches on political and social comment.

Where is home? (2016) oil on canvas, 40.6cm x 50.8cm

Where is home? (2016) oil on canvas, 40.6cm x 50.8cm

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Where is home?: oil pastel

Seeing a photograph in the newspaper of a female refugee wading through water in the dark impelled me to do this drawing. Where is home? is the first work I’ve done that touches on social comment and politics.

Where is home? (2016) oil pastel on paper, 210mm x 297mm

Where is home? (2016) oil pastel on paper, 210mm x 297mm

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The Estuary: painting

The Thames Estuary is tidal and widens, with mud flats and marshes as you approach the sea, and here it’s a haven for birds and wildlife.

The Estuary (2016) oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm

The Estuary (2016) oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm

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The Wreck: oil pastel

A visit to view the amazing marshes on the Thames Estuary at the RSPB nature reserve Nor Marsh and Motney Hill inspired this work.

The Wreck (2016) oil pastel on paper, 297mm x 210mm

The Wreck (2016) oil pastel on paper, 297mm x 210mm

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Winter surfer: painting

A winter surfer, surrounded by ice-covered rocks, looking at the sea off the coast of Iceland features in this oil painting.

Winter surfer (2016) oil on paper, 50.8cm x 40.6cm

Winter surfer (2016) oil on paper, 50.8cm x 40.6cm

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Reedbeds at sunset: painting

The sunset that I saw last month at the RSPB nature reserve, Minsmere in Suffolk, was incredible and the view of it over the reedbeds  inspired this oil painting.

Reedbeds at sunset (2015), oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm

Reedbeds at sunset (2015), oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm

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Reedbeds: oil painting

This painting was inspired by a visit to the beautiful RSPB nature reserve, Minsmere in Suffolk, when an avocet, little egrets, snipes, lapwings, marsh harriers and many ducks, swans and geese were seen.  The work was made during one studio session of the Advanced painting practice course.

Reedbeds (2015)

Reedbeds (2015) oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm

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