Category Archives: New paintings

New painting just finished. ‘By The Sea’

By The Sea. Oil on canvas. 80x80 cm 2016 £1600

By The Sea. Oil on canvas. 80×80 cm 2016 £1600

Started in the spring just as the wild flowers, bluebells and campions are beginning to show there colour. Most of this summer has been filled with early morning mists and fogs that fall from the Cornish cliffs near where I live, and this is another in that series of early morning paintings started after cycling with sketchbooks along the coast just after dawn, drawing this coastline and then back to the studio to start painting….

Oh and it is painted close to Tregeseal stone circle.

New painting – ‘Bluebells’

Bluebells. oil on canvas 76x91.5 cm 2016 £1600

Bluebells. oil on canvas 76×91.5 cm 2016 £1600

A little late finishing this painting as it was started way back in the spring. The sky was fascinating, constantly shifting vertical shafts of light would fall, highlighting the sea, windy and hazy and bright all at the same time. Just the sort of weather I like

Conjunction Oil on canvas 110×95 cm 2012 – 2016

Conjunction Oil on canvas. 110 x95 cm £1800

Conjunction Oil on canvas. 110 x95 cm £1800

Conjunction. Oil on canvas 95×110 cm. £1800. I observed the conjunction of Jupiter Venus and Mercury from Chapel Carn Brea in 2012. Jupiter Venus and Mercury appear as tiny dots in the sky, as accurately as I could place them, although Mercury is quite a challenge to spot

Holed Stone and Mist Kenidjack

Another painting finished today. As always exploring the landscape and weather. This one is part of a series I am working on about stone circles and standing stones. This is the first one finished.

Holed Stone and Mist Kenidjack. Oil on canvas. 60×60 cm £1100

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80x80 cm £1100

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80×80 cm £1100

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Mist above Portheras Cove

We have been having such a lot of mist this summer and I know there are many people out there who do not like it. For me cycling through this weather is wonderful especially first thing just after dawn. It’s like the world gives you another way of appreciating the landscape….different lighting and hidden views suddenly revealed….It’s kind of mysterious and enigmatic. Well here is a new painting among many underway about this wonderful changeable sublime weather we have here in Cornwall.

Mist above Portheras Cove. Oil on canvas 80×80 cm. £1500

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80x80 cm £1500

Mist above Portheras Cove Oil on canvas 80×80 cm £1500

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Storm Hell Bay Bryher

New painting. This came about through an artist in residence on Tresco Isles of Scilly. Each year I have the possibility to take part in Gallery Tresco’s artist in residence program. It usually only lasts for one week, and mostly the work I do during the residency continues to form a body of work that is exhibited at Gallery Tresco the following year.

Although the residency is located on Tresco usually I will have one or two visits to Bryher which is an outrageous place to experience the winter storms and Hell Bay is aptly named. The storms here are frightening.

Hell Bay Bryher. Oil on canvas. 91 x 91 cm. 2016. £1500

Hell Bay Bryher. Oil on canvas. 91 x 91 cm. 2016. £1500

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Venus and Wild Flowers

Here is a new painting. It has been in progress for about 6 months and is a memory from several years back of many evenings watching Venus set in the west from where I built my first observatory.

 

Venus and Wild Flowers. Oil on canvas. 80 x 81 cm. 2016 £1200

Venus and Wild Flowers. Oil on canvas. 80 x 81 cm. 2016 £1200

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