I am looking back at my creative year and goal setting for 2017. This is helping me keep track of the way my work is trending. I'm very keen to work at contemporary landscape this year and with this in mind, took numerous photos of one of our daily views which I titled 'The Lone Tree' - actually an isolated clump of trees on a large hill, or barrow. The site is called Brightwater Barrow and it is next to Wittenham Clumps. My format for this series will probably all be square with a 'Big … [Read more...]
Lone Tree near Wittenham Clumps
Here is my most recent watercolour study of skies, painted in Dorchester on the day I photographed the lone tree in the large oil painting below. I took some photos of the lone tree and dropped the family off (husband Dave and grandchildren) to walk over the Wittenham Clumps to Dorchester. I drove around the long way and did most of this little cloud-study while waiting for them, and finished it at home. Of course, we all had the famous Dorchester Abbey tea. You sit around a large table amongst … [Read more...]
Summer Cloudscapes
I have now been painting in oils for six months (since I was a student 40 years ago, painting hard-edge abstracts) and this is my first summer as an oil painter! So far, I've been doing small still-life daily paintings, and huge vases, with a tulip interlude. But summer beckons with the big skies of Oxfordshire and I just have to paint these vistas of clouds. Where do I begin? I've never tried to paint clouds before (other than a brief watercolour flirtation last summer). So here is my … [Read more...]