Category Archives: Galleries & Events
O3 Gallery – The Harbour at Polperro below Chapel Hill
In this painting of Polperro, my focus is particularly on the arrangement of hillside cottages, backlit with a lemony glow of low sun. The harbour is shaded with soft blue and pink, the white of the boats reflecting the ambient … Continue reading
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Tagged coast, Cornwall, harbour, Polperro
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O3 Gallery – St Aldgates & Tom Tower, Oxford
In this second painting of Pembroke Square, I loved the rich colours in the light and shade playing on the yellow limestone of St Aldgates, and the fanned out silver birch dancing in front. The morning light gives this church its … Continue reading
O3 Gallery – The Old Harbour Wall at Polperro
After the throng of St Ives in season, Polperro seems like an undiscovered tranquil location. Perhaps it is the more tightly constructed geography surrounding the harbour that protects it and promotes the feeling of shelter from the world. In this painting I … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornwall, Polperro
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O3 Gallery – Low Tide at Harbour Beach, St Ives
I couldn’t resist the beautiful lines of this sailing vessel with its towering masts puncturing the vast blue canopy above it and the scoop of its mooring ropes, like lead reigns, drawing the viewer in. It dwarfs all other boats … Continue reading
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Tagged Harbour Beach, St Ives
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O3 Gallery – The Radcliffe & St Mary’s Passage, Oxford
For this composition, I liked the interplay of forms side by side – the slim dark silhouette of the lamp post positioned alongside the silhouetted set of railings of St Mary’s Church, with these railings below and running towards the evaporating mass of the … Continue reading
O3 Gallery – Smeaton’s Pier at St Ives
This viewpoint is in St Ives, standing on Smeaton’s Pier and looking back towards the foreshore – it is one that I return to often. The backdrop to the composition has a very characteristic grouping of houses that stand where the pier … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Cornish paintings, Cornwall, paintings, Smeaton's Pier, St Ives
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O3 Gallery – Tom Tower (Christ Church) from Pembroke Square, Oxford
This quiet road, tucked away close to the busiest areas of Oxford, is punctuated dramatically at one end by Christ Church‘s Tom Tower. The dark foreground roadway, edged by parking lines, draws the eye towards this iconic tower, heraldically lit from the west on … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ Church Oxford, O3 Gallery, Oxford, Pembroke College, Pembroke Square, Tolkien, Tom Tower
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O3 Gallery – Porthleven Harbour from the Slipway
One of the distinctive elements of Porthleven is its series of harbour walls, acting as a system of baffles against the caprices of the Atlantic Ocean. From the vantage point of the slipway at the head of the harbour they lead, … Continue reading
O3 Gallery – Magdalen College along the High Street, Oxford
I found this viewpoint unexpectedly as I was walking up the main road towards Magdalen College Tower one late morning in winter. The tall gatepost terminating a run of low walling suddenly presented itself as a companion to the upright … Continue reading
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Tagged Magdalen College, Magdalen Tower, O3 Gallery, Oxford
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O3 Gallery – The Ship Inn at Porthleven
The trinity of elements I was keen to include in this composition were the Ship Inn, the old lifeboat house and the fishing boat. In the foreground, the boat seems to be as constant as the harbour wall against which … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornwall, Lifeboat Art Studio, Porthleven, The Ship Inn
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Susan Isaac - Paintings & Sculpture 