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"3-Bar Gate" Idless Woods. 24x30 No flowers? It's weird, but many scenes that takes my eye - and this is a gate we used to see on family walks around the village - don't seem to have flowers in them. I suspect that it's because we like to walk in the late autumn, and by then any flowers would have legged it. Besides which, I refuse to put flowers in places where no flowers were, simply to add spice to a picture. This, however, is not a blanket philosophy. Far from it. But right, after all, is right!
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"Coombe Valley" Falmouth. 20x30. Yes, I know - no flowers! But there really weren't any damned flowers! (See above remarks)
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| "Idless Woods" Truro. 24x30.
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This is a view of Dozmary Pool, on Bodmin Moor, which I painted from a photograph I took on a nice day's hike. Some people hereabouts will tell you that into this very pool, Arthur tossed Excalibur! Since that event - if he ever tossed it anywhere - was before my time, I don't have the first clue about it...I suppose anything's possible. Either way, it's a pretty place. |
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| The above is another view of the Moor (See note below) | |
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| Is anyone seeing a pattern here? It's "own-up" time"... I could call the above picture "Yet another view of Bodmin Moor", but that would be to denigrate the Moor. The above is a picture of nowhere at all; certainly not Bodmin Moor! The thing is, I did a whole series of pictures loosely - very loosely -based on the Dozmary Pool one, making the scenes up as I went along. This, for the simple reason that I enjoyed the change; and a change is as good as a rest...I assume that I either needed the rest, or I was shade short of marine inspiration. Real artists call that kind of thing "Pot Boiling" and there's intrinsically nothing wrong with it. Everyone has to eat, and very few are blessed with magical inspiration every second of every day. So "pot boiling" is a valid occupation. However, I was a bit glad when that period reached its natural conclusion and the wave burst back into my field of vision. | |
| A lane, somewhere in France. 20x36 More fairly early work. I can't think why, but this, and the next picture, picked up a blue ribbon from the Three Spires Festival exhibition, and were sold in situ. |
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This may look a wholesome place, but it's actually an old canal, reeking of dead and rotting vegetation. I found my way there quite by accident and have never been back since. 20x30 (ish!) |
"Fishing Boat" 20x30. Another early one. But it's a sight I remember well. Out in the middle of the Carrick Roads after an Atlantic storm, and you come across this incongruous line of marker flags. But you had to've been there. |
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Now, this one, I enjoyed painting. It's a large canvas 30"x24" |
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| This one was painted in Norway (See Lello Greco's piece on the Links Page). 16x20 |
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As Above. Norway, in the depth of winter, is a special place to be. (See Bjorn's piece on the Links Page.) This picture was painted a long, long time ago! |
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"Idless Woods" 20x30 Ray Roberts, a great friend of mine from my teens and a fine alto sax player, owns this one and a couple more. It looks far better on his wall than it does here.
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I painted this one back when I
thought I could paint boats at sea!
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| And I painted this one at more or less the same time,
and in more or less the same frame of mind!
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The best I can say about this one is that someone actually bought it!
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Another early one...circa 1988, I think! Incidentally, the left/right thing has been blown away because I inserted this line, instead of adding it at the end. There is a legitimate reason for this state of affairs...but I've forgotten it.
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