I felt overwhelmed when planning my Welsh Industry painting. How do you represent the heart of a nation in a few pithy images? A picture tells a thousand words, so the saying goes. Is that enough to reflect the beauty and grandeur of the land, or the resilience and spirit of its people? The voices
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This little gem of a canal is in the heart of Manchester – or is it Salford? I’d better check. Yep, it’s Manchester. This is the progress of the painting of Castlefields Basin. I love canals, I grew up near the Rochdale Canal and it was always a go to place. Even though there was
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This weeks Wordless Wednesday is a Water tap painting. 13 Water Tap painting is part of the 4950 seies which was created in 2018.You can see the rest here. The tap can be found at Claydon estate.
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20 Fenchurch Street is one of those buildings that people either love or hate. It evokes strong emotions because it is so different to the surrounding architecture. Towering overhead in this Walkie Talkie painting, it inspires that sense of looming that tall buildings convey. Older buildings of Leadenhall Market gather around, as if to crowd
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The Royal Opera House painting was an ambitions project. First there was the size and the level of detail in the image chosed. As usual with these types of projects, breaks are frequent as eye strain is a potential issue. Particularly at the masking level, as you can see in this detail below. Another issue
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The Charing Cross painting is one that exploits dark and light. The strong black railings frame the taxi, streetlight and Charing Cross Hotel behind. Bold blacks and blues form elegant shapes defined by white lines. Black squiggles trace their way down the columns, highlights picked out in white ehphasise the texture formed by layers of
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Todays painting, along with three others, can be seen at the Society of Women Artists Exhibition at the Mall Galleries until 29th September 2019. For details of this and other exhibitions, please check out my events page.
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Viewing above street level across this London Church painting, there’s a black canopy providing shade over the seats and tables in the bottom right. One wonders whether the people below notice the scene as they drink, dine and chat. Blue Spire of St James’s raises up. It’s a warm, summer day, we can’t see, but
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