Ropley (Steam Train)

Ropley, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

£225

 

Ropley is a station on the Mid Hants Railway (a heritage railway that is also known as the Watercress line). This knife painting was based on photographs that I took on a half term visit with the children. We were standing on the "Harry Potter bridge" - a bridge that was used in one of the wizardly films - under which the train was about to pass.

Carousel

Oil on box canvas, 50 x 50 cm

£450

Bring on the Dancing Horses (Carousel)

This is not the whole painting, although it is the focus of it. It's also the only photograph that I have managed to take of Carousel since completing it five days ago that isn't blurred. I blame the dull weather and lack of natural light.

Now, I know that Echo and the Bunnymen probably weren't singing about carousels on Brighton Pier but the song was a persistent earworm while I was painting this, so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_bJf3foa5I

 I have no idea why there are cows in that video.