Claret - SOLD

This was a commission, painted yesterday and finished just as the light was failing. I'd forgotten how complicated those blue squares are to paint...

St Mary's in a Fairy Tale - SOLD

This is our local church, St. Mary's, but doesn't it look just a bit like a fairy tale castle? I took the source photograph on a lovely evening in July this year and I only heightened the colours a little; the façade fairly glowed in the setting sun's light.

Acrylic on box canvas, 20 x 26 cm
09 September 2013

SOLD

Ironstone

Once upon a time, they quarried ironstone here; there are even mine workings where, I imagine, there was a particularly good seam.

New Forest Heather 4 - Path

This isn't the first painting I've made using this source photograph - but the previous work was rather small, and it always was my intention to make a larger version.

Oil on canvas, 16 x 20"
SOLD

I had a bit of trouble with the photographs. The ones I took outside were clearer but not straight, and with a noticeable blue cast. The ones I took inside were straighter but just a teensy bit blurred. This is one of the latter.

Lego Minifigures 12: "Redbeard"

Cap'n Redbeard is sailing the seven seas... well, actually, the only nautical chart that I could find was of the English Channel. That's a fairly distinctive bit of coastline; I don't think I need to give any initial letters as a clue. Do you know where he is?

Acrylic on  canvas, 7 x 7 cm
SOLD

"Newbury Bridge over the Kennet and Avon,” 19 May 2002

This is another old painting, as indicated by the post title. It was painted with a brush, en plein air, on a Sunday morning. Most of the work was done before the Sunday shoppers started moseying up the tow path (for such was my location). I felt slightly self-conscious, being in such a public place, but as I'd been there for long enough to establish my place - and my painting - it wasn't too bad. Most people wandered by with a passing glance, at most. Of the few who paused, all were pleasant and were careful not to distract me too much.

But the best thing about making this painting was hearing several people commenting that they had never really looked at the bridge before, and didn't realise how attractive it was. It felt good to open people's eyes to the unnoticed beauty around them...

Lego Minifigures 7: "Racing Car Driver 2: The Champion"

Look! The racing car driver has won the cup! Does this mean that the Formula One season is over?

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm.
SOLD

Lego Minifigures 6: "Racing Car Driver"

For some reason, my husband has a Ferrari racing car driver in his collection of recently acquired minifigures (that basically means that they were bought from eBay). I think this little fellow cuts a fairly iconic figure...

... and he's back, sans helmet, in the next painting.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
SOLD