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Beginnings.... The paint is fresh, the smell of tu

Beginnings.... The paint is fresh, the smell of turps is in the air, the brush is being wielded..
#oilpainting #scumble #stroudartist #whatSundayisfor #autumncolours #simplify #lovepaint

Look out for my little painting Small Harvest in t

Look out for my little painting Small Harvest in the @bathsocietyofartists 115th Bath Open Exhibition, open from today online this year. Find it on the website @victoriaartgallerybath
Use your lockdown to look at art online!
#peaches #oilpaintersofinstagram #BathOpen2020 #stilllife #exhibitions #paintingshow #subtlecolours
#stroudartists

Portraits of Son's household cats, Tilly and Delia

Portraits of Son's household cats, Tilly and Delia, back from the framer's. Neatly done!
#lamproomgrey
#watercolour #catportraits #birthdaycard
#pictureframing #markwright #happycats #aloofcat #madcat

A walk along the river in the drizzle this morning

A walk along the river in the drizzle this morning, then back to the studio to try and catch something of it with my wonderful #carandache #neocolors and experimenting with candle wax resist
#messingabout #sketchbook #beingproductive #havingaplay #waxresist #splashy #riverside #autumnleaves #muddyboots
#chasingthecobwebsaway #Covidgloom

I am very pleased to hear that this little paintin

I am very pleased to hear that this little painting 'Small Harvest' has been selected for the Bath Society of Artists 115th Open Exhibition. As this year is proving very peculiar all round, the show is online at www.victoriagal.org.uk from the 2nd November to the 3rd January 2021.
There's NO excuse not to get to the show this year!
@bathsocietyofartists @pegasusartshop
#BathOpen2020 #oilpainter #stroudartist #bathsocietyofartists #smallpaintings #peachharvest #stillife #fruit #virtualexhibition #peaches🍑

I've hesitated to post this latest painting. It's

I've hesitated to post this latest painting. It's a departure from the way I would normally paint, and it's taken a bit longer! It's built up in layered oil glazes, trying to catch depth, calm and an atmosphere of a special place remembered. Called Wellspring, it's 24 x 18ins, oil on board.

#sacredpool #sacredspring #MountOlympus #oilpainting #glazes #deepwater #magicalplaces #ancientsite #memory #wellspring #stroudartist #paintersofstroud
#Greece #Dionarchaeologicalsite
#poolofthemuses #archaeology #ancientgreece #AlexandertheGreat #Macedonia #history #greekmythology

Aaaahhhhh.... It's happened at last! A good way to

Aaaahhhhh.... It's happened at last! A good way to round off a very busy day @pegasusartshop
#firelight #tinystove #cosyhome #longdayatwork #slippersonfeetup

My painting for @theoutpostedproject I'm adding a

My painting for @theoutpostedproject
I'm adding a print of it to the map before it sets off on the next leg of its journey, off to another artist. There are poets, writers, makers, painters and musicians involved in this wonderful creative project. Maps have been #outposted to Wales, London and Brighton, widening the scope, and celebrating the creativity of artists in Lockdown.
The painting is in oil on paper, of new sycamore leaves with the sun shining through them, from daily walks during the Lockdown as the Spring progressed. The colours were intense!

#outpostedproject #poetsandwriters #artistsofinstagram #brilliantideas #passiton #itsinthepost #ordnancesurvey #onthemap #thinklocal

So exciting! This gorgeous lino print arrived toda

So exciting! This gorgeous lino print arrived today from @cardamenprints
All the way from Quebec to Gloucestershire. Thankyou, Carmen; it was beautifully packaged, and such a treat. We're definitely running out of space on our print wall now! But how do we stop collecting lovely images? 💖

Last but not least, image 10/10 for the #Paintdemi

Last but not least, image 10/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge - Post an older piece each day for 10 days and nominate another artist to take part.
Today I'm nominating Max Hale @maxhaleart - hadn't thought of it when I saw you earlier, Max, but I'm sure you will have a back catalogue to sort through!

This final image is a portrait from circa 1996 'Instrument repairs' in oil on canvas, of a remarkable musician, Paul Guppy, in his workshop. He led the choir I sang in, and could build a harp.
#musicalinstruments #workshop #clarsach #harps #oilpaintersofinstagram #stroudartist #templates #studio #westgallerychoir #folkmusician #oiloncanvas

Image 9/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge where I p

Image 9/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge where I post an older piece each day for 10 days and nominate another artist to take part, if they would like to. Today's nomination is the printmaker Wendy Rhodes @wrhodesart whose lovely, concise drawings perfectly capture the lanes and tracks, woods and weather of the English landscape.

My painting today is A Pear for Cinderella, one of a series of little still life studies I made in about 2006 using -bizarrely - Christmas decoration pear baubles. I have a beautiful golden one, and this amazing glass one came from a Habitat sale.
#paintedglass
#technicalchallenge
#pears #stilllife #decorations #Christmasbauble #oilpaint
#Stroudartist
#shinythings

Better late than never, image 8/10 for the #Paintd

Better late than never, image 8/10 for the #Paintdemicartistchallenge for which I post an older painting each day for 10 days and nominate another artist to take part, if they would like to. I'm crossing my fingers and nominating Paul Fowler @fowlerlayfigures
His paintings are fascinating, subtle, worked and reworked, with complex imagery and striking use of vibrant colour.

Today's painting is Sardines Parmentier, a little still life from around 2012, with bayleaves from my garden.

#sardines #stilllife #fishinatin #oilpainting #stroudartist #bayleaves #lemons #tastytreats #mediterraneandiet #smallpaintings #kitchenstilllife

Image 7/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge posting on

Image 7/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge posting one older painting a day for 10 days and nominating another artist each day to take part. If he hasn't been nominated already, I'd really like to ask @w_john_hewitt to take part. His beautifully observed, detailed ink drawings of his Pennine landscape are fascinating, and always with some historical context.

Today's painting is Allotments path, July, from 2011when I spent a happy few weeks painting in amongst the sheds and bean rows.

#allotmentsofinstagram #pleinair #sheds #goodsellers #oilpainting #paintersofstroud #rowsofbeans #growers #harvests #allotmenteers
#stroudallotments

So pleased that this little lockdown painting has

So pleased that this little lockdown painting has gone to someone who lives in and loves this landscape. Thankyou @julesswiftshill

#sladvalley #stroudartist #landscapepainting #oilpaintersofinstagram
#lockdown2020
#springgreen

Image 6/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge where I po

Image 6/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge where I post an older artwork each day for 10 days and nominate another artist to take part.
Today I'd really like to nominate @alisonvickeryartist whose work is consistently fresh and delicate, filled with colour and light.

Today's image is a detail of a larger painting, from a time when I was fascinated by pomegranates, and their translucent seeds. I go back to them occasionally when I haven't mixed any reds for a while!
#pomegranateseeds
#rose #scarlet #crimson #pink #oilpainting #fruit #fiveaday #stroudartists #brushwork ##stilllives #rosyglow #persianfruit

Image 5/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge Posting o

Image 5/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge
Posting one older image a day for 10 days and nominating another artist to take part.
Today I'm nominating Susie Walker @susewalk Potter, sculptor, painter, maker, creative teacher and facilitator par excellence.

Today's painting is Sean throwing bowls, Oil on canvas, from 2012. Simple and quick, mostly painted in situ in the Taena Pottery workshop as part of a project looking at the producers who come to Stroud Farmer's Market, with Sean Casserley making bowl after perfect bowl.
Now in a private collection.
#pottery #Taena #oilpainting #clay #beautifulpots #farmersmarket #stroud #stroudartists #gloucestershire #figurepainting #workshopinteriors
#manatwork #practicalskills
#craftsman

Image 4/10 posted for the #PaintdemicChallenge Ea

Image 4/10 posted for the #PaintdemicChallenge
Each day for 10 days I post an older image from my back catalogue of work, and nominate an artist each day to take on the challenge themselves. Today I am nominating Helen Davison Bradley @helendavisonart whose beautifully observed, thoughtful paintings are a delight. Another painter who understands colour.

Heartsease, in oils on paper is another very old still life which incorporates regular themes in my work then; glass, old fabric and creased and folded tissue paper. I loved painting them; occasionally they crop up these days too.

#stilllifepainting
#heartsease
#tissuepaper
#oilonpaper
#paintdemicchallenge
#vintagefabric
#plantpots
#plateglass

This is image 3/10 for the #paintdemicchallenge wh

This is image 3/10 for the #paintdemicchallenge where I post an image of older work every day for 10 days, and nominate another artist to take part. I'm posting anyway, as my nominee for today has declined the challenge, as they are entitled to do.

The painting is 'Rickety horse'
Oil on board, 8 X 10ins. I made the little clay horse years ago, when I worked with a potter on an art project with people with visual impairment. Although he was very ramshackle and spindly, I was very pleased with the little creature. He still lives on my plan chest, and posed for a painting with some Greek wrapping paper.
The potter I worked with back then was my brilliant friend Susie Walker @susewalk whose creativity encompasses so much, from pots to banners, and everything in between. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

#sculptural #horsesofinstagram #spindlycreature #ceramicsculpture #redglaze #ancientgreeks #stilllifepainting #inspiration #character #wirearmature
#loveclay
#handmadehorse

2/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge I am posting 1

2/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge

I am posting 10 older works over 10 days, nominating another artist to take part.
Today I'm nominating @pamelaharrisonartist whose quiet, drifting, dreamy seascapes flicker in and out of abstraction. She's another artist in love with oil paint.

The painting is Sprats, oil on board, circa 2012, now in a private collection.
#fish #stilllifepainting #fastwork #colourmixing
#paintemtheneatem
#oilpaintersofinstagram
#littlefishes
#kitchens
#stroudartists
#brushwork
#subtlecolours

Painting 1/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge. Post 1

Painting 1/10 for the #PaintdemicChallenge. Post 1 older painting for 10 days, and each day nominate an artist to take on the challenge. Thankyou to @hanna_vandersteen_sketches for nominating me. I was honoured; her drawings are beautifully expressive, full of movement and atmosphere.
Today I nominate @kimjarvisartist whose lovely, gestural, seashore landscapes breathe ozone, light and colour. You might almost be there with her.

Today's painting is very old! It's one I did as a student in Lancaster in 1982. It's a rescued fragment of a much bigger painting which was too badly damaged to save. The wonderful model was called Hugh, I remember.

#paintdemicchallenge #painting #backcatalogue #oilpaintersofinstagram #lifemodel #figurepainting #memories #brushwork #liferoom #stilllearning
#artstudent #mistsoftime

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