Category: Night Work
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Tales From The Riverbank 5: Two Sisters, Soliciting Swans and Ginger Bees
I came across a cache of old photos sang the Pet Shop Boys, and similarly I came across a cache of river bank images I never posted from 2021, and some new ones from 2022 that I’ve done before and after my trip. First up is this view of the Ginger Bees cafe from 2021, created…
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Art During a Heatwave / Night Work
So last Monday/Tuesday where I live had a heatwave – which is unusual for the UK. Bushy Park registered 39.2C beating the previous record, and nearby Heathrow registered 40.2C and Kew Gardens 40.1C, a record only beaten by 0.1 by a place in Lincolnshire. So how to work as a landscape artist in a heatwave?…
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Equinox and Solstice
I did three pieces around the equinox and solstice, two in March of the same view (night and day) and another piece at Solstice of the sun setting over one of the ‘sentinels‘ – what I call the red life buoy stands that seem to watch the river, waiting for something – my first modern…
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Night On The River
It’s been a while since I spent the night drawing or painting on the river – in fact there is a whole gallery of Night Work from a year or more ago doing exactly that. Because of winter and quite often starting late, I’ve been catching a lot of sunsets and nocturnal views, working from…
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On The Buses (And Trains)
I don’t travel as much as I used to on buses and trains, especially night buses. I used to work on them a lot travelling back from visits to London but I rarely go into town anymore. I can draw on a bus and adjust my strokes to the movements. A childhood of writing and…
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Waiting For The Night: Last of the River Part 2
These are I think the last of the river pieces most done at night – that barrel has been well and truly scraped and is heading over Niagara Falls, well Teddington Lock at least…the first is a piece I did on a windy day – the nice Indian Summer didn’t last long although it has…
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