Looking at my National Memorial Painting I cannot help a meditating on the poppy. The first thing that you notice it’s red. An atmospheric swathe of textured red fills less than half the image. Red for poppies representing red for blood. 10,000 ceramic poppies were placed in and around the Tower of London in 2014 […]
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Welsh Ayr Painting Summing up a nation with a single image is always a challenge. To me Wales, counjours up castles, songs and a love for home, albeit more of a home from home for me. That’s what the Welsh Ayr painting is about. Caernarfon Castle dominates with the tower on the right hand side
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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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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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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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Strong, resolute, Portcullis House owes much to the history of the United Kingdom. Its name and shape suggest that ancient security device, the portcullis. but its style is distinctly 21st century. The roof tiling forms trapezoid shape fanning out to the bottom edge. Lines that continue straight down the walls as tall columns, spaced out
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