Tag: Derwent
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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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Abstract Advent: Week 2
Last week was a blast, this week for the Abstract Advent the Christmas Shit™ started to bite, and I found it harder to juggle meeting up with people, portrait sessions, getting all the cards and parcels off in a panic because like storms, flooding, wrong kind of wind, snow and ice on the roads as…
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Empty Avenues in The Good Life
All these glamorous destinations – Greece, the Jurassic Coast – but as we come up to the Surbiton and the Seething Wells Festival it’s time to celebrate the Good Life with Tom and Barbara and yes, some goats. Surbiton is used as a stand-in for suburbia – even featured in Harry Potter – but usually…
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Bus Shelter Redux
Just realised I missed a few of the Bus Shelter series that should have been in the previous post but they’re good enough to get their own post. Both graphitints, and from the wet springtime when I was sheltering in bus stops to have anywhere to work outside the flat. The first one is called…
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Allotment afternoons and winter walks
Winter plein air drawing and painting is a cold affair, but also in some ways easier – less foliage to depict, more bold/graphic images of empty trees, snow or ice, white or purple darkened skies and mists. Returning to Bushy Park, these works are all but one from the early part of the year, pre-Spring…
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Night Work #4
When the weather wasn’t freezing during the start of September I did some more of the night paintings. The last in this series is the first here, the ‘Towards The City (Night Version)’, a view from Richmond Park at night towards the city which is almost the night version of this oil painting, just further…
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