Horizon.

Upland 2   Oils on canvas board  5 x 7 inches   £ 60   $ 80

Light on the horizon.

Memories of Derbyshire walking.

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Studio Musings...

For some time now I have been using my existing studio paintings 

as ideas for new work in a series of abstracted work about land and shore.

Building up a series, or a body of paintings along a 

similar theme is rather like having a sketchbook. 

 I don't often sketch outside. Preferring to draw from my internal 

'mind' source of images... I 'sketch' with my brush directly on the canvas.

Looking around the room, some aspect of an existing painting might

catch my eye and act as the starting point.  Other times, I may use the 

colours on my palette as the theme or the size and shape of the board/canvas.

These new pieces are left to dry and a photograph of the work is 

used to upload the piece into my web galleries.

A coat of re-touch varnish is applied and the paintings become

 another part of my 'ideas sketch book' as they are placed around my studio walls.

Tidal.

Turning 2   Oils on board  20 x 12 cm.  £ 70  $ 90

Turning tide.

  A view of the exposed shore.

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Studio Musings...

This narrow off-cut of board was ideal for a tall view of the shore.

It is not always necessary to think of wide landscape format...

Sometimes the unusual can work just as well.

Far out.

Distant   Oils on canvas board  5 x 7 inches  £ 70   $ 90

The tide is out...

 The marsh and pools catch the sunlight.

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Studio Musings...

Small pools and creeks are visible at low tide.

This little study is about the changing surface of the shore.

Each tide changes the land as the water moves the sand.

Some of the creeks are deep when the tide turns to fill them.

Walkers beware...

Ethereal

Twilight   Oils on canvas board  5 x 7 inches  £ 70  $ 90

Nearly nightfall.  A time of mystery.

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Studio Musings...

A dark bronze underpainting set the scene.

Prussian blue gave the misty feeling.

Later on.

Lowlights   Oils on canvas board  5 x 7 inches   £ 75   $ 90

Light falls on the lower land as evening comes.

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Studio Musings...

I really love making these little studies.

Placing the marks and colours, scrubbing shapes and

imagining landscapes or something else.

Approaching mist.

Marsh Fret   Oils on canvas board  5 x 7 inches  £ 55   $ 70

Marshland in mist.

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Studio Musings...

Painting over a previous work...

never quite knowing where it will lead.

Some of the marks gave an indication of the shore so here it is.

Storm surge.

Aftermath   Oils on board  17 x 27 cm  £ 275   $ 350

Storm is passing. 

 The shore is showing the results.

In a hand-painted wood frame

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Studio Musings...

I love mood and atmosphere in a painting.

Abstracted and textured, this scene captures it all.