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Norfolk - Following on from “ Where to next?” my last show in Shelley House Studios, we left our beloved home of 42 years and were extremely fortunate to be offered temporary accommodation on a Norfolk Estate, which had some large meres and woods nestling amongst the vast acreages of farmland. The largest of the meres had a boathouse which I was allowed to use as a studio. I spent 4 blissful months painting there and I have included a selection of drawings and paintings in The Gallery.
Bury St Edmunds - In August 2023 we moved into our new home in Bury St Edmunds and I have enjoyed painting the market scenes which are a completely new genre for me, with their vibrancy, bright colours and bustling crowds. A different world from the serenity and solitude of the lakes.
Scuba - A dear friend was about to have a major operation for a brain tumour removal. She was a keen scuba diver, and as she was told by the surgeon that she must not dive again, she asked me to paint something that would remind her of those wonderful times beneath the waves.
Being a keen diver myself in years gone by I relished the challenge of re creating something of the joy of being twenty metres down looking up at the breaking waves above, and looking down into a bottomless dark blue cavern, through myriads of brilliantly coloured reef fish, to the mysterious and sometimes menacing deep.
As to composition I put the diver (my friend), on the golden section with the warm yellow ocres of the reef in the foreground making the the cavern of deep receding blues. I used many blue glazes over the reef to harmonise with the blues. Most importantly were the breaking waves far above which anyone who has scuba dived will know that one looks up in wonder and down sometimes with trepidation!
Painting at Micklemere
Nestling amongst the vast acreages of farmland, the largest of the meres had a boathouse which I was allowed to use as a studio.
Mickelmere April 24
Wretham - July 24 Commission
Early Spring leaves
Pheasants
Bury St Edmunds Market Scene 1
Bury St Edmunds Market Scene
Bury St Edmunds Market Scene 3
Bury St Edmunds Market Scene 4
Look up in wonder
A dear friend was about to have a major operation for a brain tumour removal. She was a keen scuba diver, and as she was told by the surgeon that she must not dive again, she asked me to paint something that would remind her of those wonderful times beneath the waves.
Being a keen diver myself in years gone by I relished the challenge of re creating something of the joy of being twenty metres down looking up at the breaking waves above, and looking down into a bottomless dark blue cavern, through myriads of brilliantly coloured reef fish, to the mysterious and sometimes menacing deep.
As to composition I put the diver (my friend), on the golden section with the warm yellow ocres of the reef in the foreground making the the cavern of deep receding blues. I used many blue glazes over the reef to harmonise with the blues. Most importantly were the breaking waves far above which anyone who has scuba dived will know that one looks up in wonder and down sometimes with trepidation!