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  • Double Vision: Home & Bushy Park

    Double Vision: Home & Bushy Park

    Seeing double was the order of the day with these two works. The first “Irises’ above and below is of the imaginatively named ‘Long Water’ in front of Hampton Court was of the ranks of marching trees I’ve been obsessed with for a long time, a Gursky sort of landscape. It’s also a nod to…

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  • Box Hill #5 – 172 Mole Swings

    Box Hill #5 – 172 Mole Swings

    So on my fifth visit I started at Burford Bridge and walked down to the Stepping Stones. I had been here before, to check it out, and knew that the Stepping Stones weren’t in operation (and rather disappointingly are concrete pillars all the same shape, rather than my mental image of nice stones…). So I…

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  • Box Hill #4 – Bottoms & Forts

    Box Hill #4 – Bottoms & Forts

    Back to Box Hill and the Old Fort…I fort you did that before? No, but I mentioned this on a previous visit, where I started this watercolour, and finished it on the fourth visit with gouache. Part of the ‘Urban’ series celebrating ruined places and graffiti, it was odd to see this here in such…

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  • Box Hill #3 – Piano Folly

    Box Hill #3 – Piano Folly

    I mentioned I had seen a poster of a tower on my first visit…well on my third I tracked it down. It’s Broadwood’s Folly or Broadwood’s Tower. Located by Juniper Hall, it was built by Thomas Broadwood (of the John Broadwood & Sons piano family) in 1815 as indeed a garden ornament or folly. Originally…

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  • Box Hill Visit #2

    Box Hill Visit #2

    I went back the next day to Box Hill after the group visit I was so inspired by Box Hill. In the car I’d seen some interesting views – several from the Zig Zag Road which mean I wanted to go back ASAP. Someone asked about a fort they saw on the way back and…

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  • Life Drawing #33

    Life Drawing #33

    When I was at art school in a galaxy far, far away…they’d stay words like ‘that’s a strong piece’ and ‘that’s very strong’ if you were lucky. Well I think painting came on strong in this session, more so that others. Partly inspired by a couple of guardian angels who gave me some paints and…

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