Search results for: “tree”
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Return To The Hollow Tree / No Fishponds
A slight return to a few previous haunts with some new techniques but with a few surprised with a couple of recent pieces not posted to Instagram! I’d scoped out Fishponds Park as a place I’d like to work back at the start of lockdown in spring, especially the ponds themselves. But at the time…
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Back to the Trees, Part 1
Being totally burnt out with river drawings and paintings after 4-5 months of lockdown where I kept it local, I went back to the trees…the Dead Tree series. I did try different angles and perspectives of the river, as you’ll see in a future post, but there is only so much you can do of…
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Richmond Park, Tree
Jumping slightly forward again, this was one of the newer oils that I mentioned in the previous post – not that new, since I started it around the time of the ‘View Towards The City’ oil but didn’t finish it as I was unhappy with the first attempt (oddly I didn’t photograph the in-progress version…
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Dead Tree Series
A series of works mostly of dead trees or tree ‘portraits’ (and landscapes!) . I’ve been obsessed by the nature of dead trees – and those that are ‘zombie’ trees (half dead and half alive, fallen trees that are still living) – for a long time. The symbology of the tree is a common one…
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The Hollow Tree
In the distance of the last tree picture was a scary rickety looking tree. I feel that work is a prequel to this one – it was where I was originally heading anyway. I’ve called it The Hollow Tree because as you can see from the pictures it is hollow but still alive! At some…
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Dead Tree #2
I said I had painted a lot of dead trees! We’re not even finished yet… This was a piece painted over a few days, both very stormy and threatening rain. I did the watercolour and it got dark, came back a few days later as I felt it was incomplete and sod’s law, someone had…