46 Thatched Roof - ©2018 - Cathy Read -Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

46 Thatched Roof Painting

Usualy, I shy away from thatched roof paintings. They are always in serious danger of becoming twee. The subject’s been overdone. It’s chocolate Box art at it’s most familiar. Don’t get me wrong, I love thatched cottages, it’s just there as so many paintings of them. The Thatched roof painting of a cottage is quintessentially

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Painting of pipework behind Fleece Yard in Buckingham 45 Pipework - ©2018 - Cathy Read -Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

45 Pipework Sculpture or creative Plumbing?

Where is it? I shall be flabbergasted if anyone can tell me where this pipework sculpture is. It’s behind shops somewhere in central Buckingham, that’s all I can really tell you without being exact. These pipes don’t seem to have been planned but added as required, giving them an organic feel. I can imagine them

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Rainbow porch painting is the Radcliffe centre Buckingham42 - Porch - Cathy-Read- ©2018 - Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

Architecture art: Enter The Porch

As architecture art goes, this has lots of features to note. Arch windows, stonework, leaded windows and the shape of the porch. The entrance to a former church, now repurposed and well used. As you can see, I’ve gone wild with colour. The building is superficially very yellow, being a sandstone construction. On closer inspection,

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41 - Drainpipe painting- Cathy Read - ©2018 Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

Painting number 41 Drainpipe Art for the 4950 series

I have to admit to envisioning something far more mundane than this for the Drainpipe. My original plan was this one. Basic, functional, worn. Then I went on a photoshoot and found this offering, a historic feature by someone obviously wanting to impress. It’s drainpipe art, if ever there was such a thing. One often

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Painting of shop floor 40 Floor - ©2018 - Cathy Read - Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

Mosaic floor painting 40th of the 4950 Paintings

Mosaic floors have always had a fascination for me. The fragments of tiny tiles placed together to create an artwork with a permanent feel. My mosaic floor painting is fragile by comparison. Water will easily destroy all aspects of it, but runs right off the original floo. Mosaic is permanent, or as permanaent as anything

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Manchester Blue Painting of the Etihad Stadium Manchester City Football groundManchester-Blue-Cathy-Read-£1357-81x61cm-©2018

Meditating on Manchester Blue, painting the Etihad Stadium

Manchester Blue Where to begin describing this painting . The Etihad stadium or Manchester City’s football ground. A place dear to the heart of the supporters. A building designed with crowds all football fans in mind . The numerous spiralling walkways that lead into or out of the ground. The blue wall listing the names

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