West Country

View From River Cottage

Back in action today with a soft pastel landscape. I understand that there's a view of this gate from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage...

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Clifton Suspension Bridge

This week's LAOTY was in Bristol with a view of Clifton Suspension Bridge. It was the episode that I picked out when applying unsuccessfully to be...

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Roughtor, Dartmoor

Tempting though it is to keep painting portraits and figures, I do need to keep up the landscapes, ready for LAOTY of I make into a pod or the...

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Ancient Sorceries

I fancied giving the oil pastels another go today.  It feels like too long since I came up with a decent oil pastel painting.  I looked through my...

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I Can Read Your Mind

So I had the first chance in a while to do some undisturbed painting in the studio.  Well I say that but in reality I only started at 2pm and had...

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Garrow Farm, Bodmin Moor

So here's the painting I've been busy with over the last couple of days.  It's a deserted farmhouse on a Bodmin Moor, a scene that's been in my...

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Bowerman’s Nose, Dartmoor

Similar subject matter to yesterday but this time it's on Dartmoor rather than Bodmin Moor.  This is a stack of granite called Bowerman's Nose. ...

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Dragon Path

Preparation of the site for my art studio is now complete, touch wood, so I can go back to painting even if I'm still feeling a little stressed.  I...

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A Miserable Night In Torquay

I still have three new books sitting on the shelf and it would be very easy for me to stop painting for a month while I read them all.  But then I...

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