Just before Christmas

 Just before Christmas, I was making this concertina piece.

Canal again

Two more from the same walk

 

Ghostly hands, or is it the reflection of pollarded willows in the cold water?  Mixed media on watercolour board 356 x 254m

Canalside trees and a winter sky. mixed media on watercolour board 305 x 254 mm

For images of a more colourful  and abstract nature, later in the year, see the post before last 

 

The Sky shines in the canal. painted October 2020

Covid has had varying effects on me. Lutje and I have been in different countries since March. I t is not easy. I try to keep to the house being especially vulnerable, partly from my age but mostly from medical conditions. Also since I had to give up my car 13 months ago I cannot stray far!

I have tried to do lots of painting but it doesn't always work. But sometimes I have a burst. In particular, the canal next to the house and Victoria Park have been my inspiration.  I am doing many more, landscape-inspired abstract paintings

I want to show you these to get me painting and posting again  All three, 120 x  175 mm are mixed media mostly acrylic and coloured pencil on mountboard and were painted the same day in October. The sky reflected in the water and the dying vegetation.

 Over the next few days, I will try to post a selection of the many drawings, painting and photographs I have made over recent months as well as any new works I may create.

no post Art Week blues!

Open studios have passed and we had a good time. A slow but steady trickle of lovely people came to see my pictures and enough of them brought their cheque books to make sure we did not make a loss!

One of them was the leader of a local art group, the Heath House Art Group. Heath House is not a building but the name of a village on the Somerset levels about 15 miles from here.  I was delighted to be invited to run two workshops concentrating on my pictures of buildings

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The first one  happened two days ago and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I hope the punters did too!  I am really looking forward to next Wednesday; I will try, this time, not to forget my camera!