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This Oxford painting was also sold for me (some years ago) by the @wrengallery in Burford ... 'Tom Tower of Christ Church College, from Pembroke Square'And another of my Oxford paintings (from 2014-15) that sold at @claremontart (and again there are prints on my Etsy shop).Here is another of my Oxford paintings from 2012-13 - as I wrote at the time, "I had been searching for a way to paint Magdalen College ever since I arrived in Oxford, but the busy and wide road in front of the main facade didn't make me feel very optimistic I would find a composition that worked for me. I found my view point unexpectedly as I was walking up the main road towards Magdalen Tower one late afternoon in winter. The tall gatepost terminating a run of low walling suddenly presented itself as a counterpoint to the upright of the Tower and a third dark upright in the form of a tree."Looking again at my early Oxford paintings is instilling a sense of nostalgia for early visits. This work, from 2012, was my first impression of Oxford - the first point of entering into the city. I was interested in the concept of bridges transposing one’s perceived experience from the ordinary to the otherworldliness of Oxford. The repetition of urn-like parapet supports leads the viewer to a Narnia-like streetlamp under a veil of bared branches drawn through the sky, with Magdalen Tower only faintly seen in the background, hinting at what is to come.Continuing my theme of the Radcliffe 'in the round', here it is tucked away behind the Bodleian. My diary at the time (2013) records my focus on the formal components ...
Category Archives: Awards & Prizes
Reviewing my work from 2020
Two months into 2021 has given me a little space to think about and review my work from last year, so … 2020 started well enough, with two of my paintings having been accepted to be in the Open 30 … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, Cambridge, Ceramics, en plein air, Galleries & Events, Gallery 6, Landscapes, Newark-on-Trent, Norfolk, Saffron Walden Gallery
Tagged art, artist, Nottinghamshire, Notts
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Wales Contemporary Exhibition 2020
I was delighted in September to have one of my sculptural pieces, ‘Working the Landscape’, shortlisted in the Wales Contemporary Exhibition 2020, to be held at the Waterfront Gallery in Milford Haven. Having delivered my work at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, Ceramics, Sculpture
Tagged art, ceramic, Ceramics, Exhibition, sculpture
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Sir John Hurt Art Prize 2020
It was lovely to learn that one of my paintings has been shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize 2020, run by the Holt Festival. “Washing in the Crew Yard” is one of a series of works I completed … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, Nottinghamshire
Tagged art, Art Events, en plein air, Nottinghamshire, paintings
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Paint Out Norfolk 2020 – Day 8 (Trowse & Prizes)
A couple of day’s after the event (I was really tired when it finished), here is my account of the final day of the Paint Out Norfolk 2020 event. The painting locations for the last day were narrowed to the … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, en plein air, Norwich, Paint Out, Paint Out Norfolk 2020
Tagged art, Art Events, en plein air, Norfolk, Norwich, paintings
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Paint Out Norwich 2018 – Days 3, 4 & 5
Mon 15 Oct – Anglia Square This day’s theme was ‘modernising’ and, after being thoroughly spoiled with the Medieval beauty of the city in the days before, I was curious to see this somewhat controversial area of Norwich – a … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, en plein air, Events, Norwich, Paint Out
Tagged art, Art Events, John Sell Cotman, Norfolk, Norwich, paintings
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Paint Out Norwich 2018 – Day 1
With the Paint Out Norwich competition concluded I’ve spent a couple of days recovering before typing up my hand-written notes. I wanted to say a little about some of my paintings and thought I would do some short blog pieces … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, en plein air, Landscapes, Norwich, Paint Out
Tagged art, Carrow Abbey, Colemans Factory, en plein air, Norfolk, Norwich, Norwich Guildhall, paintings, St Peter Mancroft
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Charlestown
This painting of Charlestown in Cornwall was selected for ‘Open 28‘, the East Midlands Open Art Exhibition in Leicester, which is on at the Old Library Gallery, 50-54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, LE1 6QL from 6 July to 26 August, 2017. … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, Charlestown, Cornwall, Seascapes
Tagged Charlestown, Cornish paintings, Cornwall, paintings
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Buxton Spa Prize Exhibition
Earlier this week I delivered two paintings and a sketchbook to the Green Man Gallery in Buxton, as submissions for this year’s Buxton Spa Prize. The exhibition of entries runs from 1-31 July (The Green Man Gallery is at Hardwick … Continue reading
Posted in Awards & Prizes, Buxton Spa, Galleries & Events, Green Man Gallery, Landscapes, Uncategorized
Tagged Buxton Spa, Derbyshire, Exhibition, paintings
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