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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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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These dormer windows are in Buckingham, tucked away on a side street. They could be in a number of locations, (again visible from google streetview for those not in Buckingham). I love Dormer Windows from the outside, they add character to a roof. Give it a quaint olde worlde charm, but if I’m to live
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Buckingham lights The next image for the 4950 Challenge is a Lamp Post painting. The light in question is by Buckingham Parish Church. There are lots of lamp posts in this style but this one caught my eye. It’s under the canopy of an ancient Beech Tree, the twisted branches dark against the winter sky.
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Painting 29 of my Buckingham art series of Paintings is inspired by the Hospital Steps. In retrospect this should have been painting number 39, after the litaerary classic but then I always did like doing things my way. 5 steps seems a pathetically small number, even if it is accurate. These steps will be familiar
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Vertical Aspirations is one of my early paintings of Manchester. Developing my style involved created numerous paintings of Manchester. The essential components exist in this early painting. There are white lines, blown ink and blooms are there, but also elements that I don’t use in the same way. My trees have evolved into something else.
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