Category Archives: Southwell Minster

Began two more pictures of Minster – one view from beside the Minster Cafe, the other from Potwell Dyke. In the first view, I wanted to use the cafe furniture with red parasols in the foreground – looking for a … Continue reading →

Finished a painting of Minster from Trebeck Hall side. Really love this view, with much of the cathedral obscured. I liked the intrigue of the garden gate in the foreground.  The end result reminded me of John Piper with his … Continue reading →

Began repainting a view of Minster through the north gate, off Church Street. Hadn’t liked the initial painting – too ‘safe’. So had built up layers of texture and obscured most of my early details. I wanted to retain some of … Continue reading →

I’m working on a new series of Southwell Minster paintings on square canvases. Today, started a view with the West door of the cathedral in the snow. Beautiful, clear sky with delicate shades tinting the snow on the ground. Work went … Continue reading →

Southwell Minster’s West Gate with its ancient bell-shaped yew trees on either side is an impressive prelude to the Minster itself. In this painting, the cathedral is relegated to the background. I loved the way the snow clothed the Yews, … Continue reading →

The view of Southwell Minster across the Potwell Dyke has layer upon layer of field and hedge boundary and trees. The Minster becomes another layer in this theatrical stage. The winter snow picks out these intermittent layers of dark hedge … Continue reading →

Another view of Southwell Minster made available in the winter months is through the gardens of the Bishops Palace. The intervening branches create wonderful tracery overlaying the building itself. Strong lemony greens caught my imagination here and I set up … Continue reading →

I’ve completed the first of my wide landscape views of Southwell Minster. In fact I did this one as a triptych, using three small canvases to get the greater width. Its a view I especially like – with the Minster seen through … Continue reading →

Today I worked out in detail a series of Minster landscapes using small wide canvases. My intention has been to open up a new set of possibilities in terms of composition and my ideas have crystalised following research over the winter and spring months just gone, … Continue reading →