West Yorkshire Landscape

This painting is a view from a farm in Golcar, near Huddersfield. I was
delighted when it was commissioned as it is a subject matter that I would
naturally choose to paint myself. I particularly like the way that
distance can be portrayed through watercolour. Using a more transparent
wash can give the impression of distance really effectively. I also like
the contrast than can be achieved between parts of buildings which have
direct sunlight compared to those parts in the shade.

As I have traveled throughout West Yorkshire, I have built up a large
collection of great images which I will work up into paintings in the near 

future.

Broadway, Grantchester

This painting was produced from a photograph that I took during a visit to Cambridge. I stood in the middle of Grantchester Meadows where there is a footpath in to Cambridge and took the photo looking back towards Broadway. It was a bright and breezy day in May, one of those days where the cloud formations are really spectacular.

Both the original and full size mounted prints are available to buy.

Prints 47 x 27cm £50.00 including delivery to UK address.

Coincidence in Buckinghamshire

From Tuesday 11th - Thursday 13th September I continued touring the villages of Buckinghamshire. On this visit, the locations included Aldbury, Wiggington, Hastoe, Cholesbury, Buckland End, St Leonards, Stoke Mandeville, Wendover, Puttenham, The Lee, South Heath, Hyde End and Great Missenden.

During my tour of England over the last four years I've always been surprised by the number of unusual coincidences that have occurred. The best instance of this happened on Thursday morning of this particular trip. Breakfast, around the table at The Brownlow B&B near Ivinghoe. Me, an older couple, two women, all tucking into breakfast talking about what we were doing in the area. After a couple of minutes of conversation, it emerged that I had visited the home of the older couple who lived in a small village outside Bristol two years previously. They recalled that we had a brief chat in their garden and that they already had a house portrait having won it in a raffle! Small world.

Buckinghamshire - Brackley

Coming to the end of my promotional tour in 2012.

I am revisiting Buckinghamshire. First arrived on the scene in 2010 but have since realised that there are far more villages that need to see my artwork. I will be focusing my efforts on this county until the clocks go back. What then? I will be hibernating in my studio for the winter only coming out briefly for a spot of sledging with Bobby when the snow comes.

This time I stayed for three days and visited the following places: Waddesdon, Edgcott, Wootton Underwood, where I had an interesting chat with the security chap outside Tony Blair's gaff, Ashendon, Ludgershall, Haddenham, Ickford, Worminghamm and finally, a place that I think deserves a special mention because it has such a fab name - Brill.

Brill is where this photograph was taken...

Sorry, I've tried looking for it, but I can't find it.

This is my second choice best photo. Not taken in Brill. This was taken in Ashendon. I do love a good bit of ecclesiastical architecture, exaggerated by some  direct sunlight...

More travels around Essex

 

My latest tour was around the very north of the county of Essex.

Taking in Felsted, Stebbing, Great Easton, Thaxted, Great Bardfield, Bardfield Saling (pronounced sailing), Shalford and Beazley End.

In Shalford, there is a small village shop which does the best sandwiches I have ever eaten - fact.

The photo above was taken in Great Easton, I think, and it kind of sums up this area quite nicely - very rural, hardly any phone signal etc. Plus it's just a great image and looks even better put through an instagram filter as this has been.

That's me done in Essex for this year....probably be back in spring time next year...