land and sea
Hills, plains, mountains, rivers, parks, meadows, fields, sea, estuaries, waterfalls, pools, harbours, canals, bays, lakes, puddles, rain...
I spend a lot of time outside in my home county of Somerset and before, Wiltshire. A stunningly beautiful part of our country with a vast, ever-changing sky, changeable weather, fields, rivers, coastline, planes and woodland. It is this energy, these colours this sense of place that I try to capture.
I paint in oils, I love the colours, their buttery consistency, and the smell. I love moving it around on a canvas, often without a plan, just a collection of carefully chosen colours on my palette to start and a memory of a place: a mood, a Winter sky, glowing seed-heads drifting across a meadow on a gloomy day, colours of fields near and far. Then without rational thought, I paint. Intuitively laying down colours, making marks to explain the essence of a place.
I paint in oils, I love the colours, their buttery consistency, and the smell. I love moving it around on a canvas, often without a plan, just a collection of carefully chosen colours on my palette to start and a memory of a place: a mood, a Winter sky, glowing seed-heads drifting across a meadow on a gloomy day, colours of fields near and far. Then without rational thought, I paint. Intuitively laying down colours, making marks to explain the essence of a place.
Gurnard's Head, Cornwall
oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm
oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm
Constantine Bay
Oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm |
By Cley Hill
Oil on canvas 76 x 76 cm |
Today is good
Oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm SOLD |
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September light
Oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm 2018 |
Sea mist
Oil on board 2018 |
Into the sun. Constantine Bay, Cornwall
Oil on board 2017 SOLD |
Wave
Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2018 |
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Rodden meadow
Oil on canvas 76 x 76 cm 2018 SOLD |
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Tern, Tern, tern
Oil on board 2015 SOLD |
As Autumn comes
2017 Oil on panel 94 x 64 cm |
Winter's last gasp SOLD
Oil on canvas framed 30 x 30 cm 2018 |
A gentle shower
oil on canvas framed 30 x 30 cm 2018 |
Murmur's of Summer
oil on canvas framed 30 x 30 cm 2018 |
Distant thunder
oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2018 |
Wandering
Mixed media 40 x 40 cm 2018 |
Daybreak
40 x 40 cm Oil on canvas with sterling silver leaf 2018 |
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Bruma
Oil and wax on canvas board 40 x 30 cm 2017 |
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The Somerset Levels near Axbridge
Oil on canvas 65 x 65 cm 2017 |
Marsh mellow
2017 Oil on board 30 x 20 cm |
Autumn colours
2017 Oil on canvas board 40 x 30 cm |
Harvest
2017 Oil on canvas framed 60 x 50 cm |
Winter jewels
2017 Oil on canvas board 60 x 50 cm SOLD |
A summer garden SOLD
2017 Oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm |
Sunday sun
2017 oil on canvas 34 x 29 cm |
If only they could talk-ParkLife
26 x 31 cm OIl on board |
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A field in the Weald-ParkLife
Oil on canvas 18 x 24cm 2017 |
The City from Brockwell Park, London
30 x 30cm Oil on canvas board SOLD |
The long road to the North
Oil on paper SOLD |
The crows wheeled in the sky
Oil on paper 15 x 24 cm |
Where the crows fly
Oil on board 25 x 30 cm |
At the end of the road
Acrylic on board 50 x 50 cm |
Waiting for the storm
Oil on board 40 x 30 cm |
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The Bee and the Butterfly
Acrylic on board SOLD |
