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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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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The Artist’s dream. Any artist will tell you there are always things you are itching to paint. This fanlight painting I created is inspired by a building I’d yearned to transform into a work of art for many years. Once a prominant victim of decay, it’s undergone a recent transformation. Keeping many of the features
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This Rooftop painting is inspired by a tiled roof in a Buckinghamshire village which seems to have everything thrown at it, and the result is…? Colourful, complicated, cosy, *insert adjective here* Think someone wanted to get there money’s worth with this one. It’s a bit like a child in a sweetie shop, can I have
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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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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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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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Possibly the smallest of the architectural features in the 4950 Series and a suitable topic for this Valentines Week. I’ll have to Figure out where this one is myself, I know roughly, but can’t remember exactly. I took the photo wome time ago. It is Buckingham centre, that much I can remember. Why do we
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I originally planned this to be a dome but eventually settled on a Timber framed building. I ran out of time to get the reference photo. The structure of Timber framing has always appealed and they do have a quintessetially English feel about them. With so many fake Tudor style houses I wanted the genuine
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