Tag: Oil Painting

High tide on the Gann

Painted in September 2010 over three evenings, when the biggest spring tide of the year pushed up so far, it didn’t just flood all the saltings but poured into adjoining meadows and even partly covered the roadway: I had to stop work and climb onto the bridge parapet for about ten minutes, each session! The view is southwards from the original Mullock Bridge; very calm each time, with both little river noises and even small sounds from afar easily heard.
Just below the far ridge is Slatehill Farm – at the time of writing, up for sale.

Oil on panel
16″ x 24″

High tide on the Gann

Moon

With so much clear weather at the moment, we are getting good views of the moon as it waxes towards the full on Monday.

You could call this found art: it is the very thick skin of an old tin of oil paint, stuck onto a piece of beach-salvaged plywood, and then painted with artist’s oil paint… But for all that, I hope you feel it works!

Oil on panel
Approx. 12″ x 8″
Private Collection

Moon

Rosemary Russet

It is blossom time, and my Rosemary Russet apple tree is looking its best; so, here is a painting from a few years ago. Rosemary Russets are lovely eating apples, quite sharp and well flavoured. They are relatively smooth as russets go: nothing like the sharkskin feel of an Egremont Russet!

Oil on panel
8″ x 8″
Private collection

Rosemary Russet

Rising Tide, Musselwick Mouth

I painted this picture on location just before the Summer solstice in 2022; this is later afternoon, with Musselwick Sands already cut off. I was looking south-east so the sun was on my right, usually a difficult arrangement; but in mid June it was still very high so firstly, I wasn’t bothered by brush shadows and secondly, I could see those underwater colours clearly through the sea surface.

Time for some colour

Yes, I am still sorting the Picture Gallery out; nevertheless today I thought I’d feature one of the oil paintings already on show there.
I painted Calm Sea, Renny Slip in July 2022. As is my preference, I was working on location – in this case, part way down the cliff (after very careful planning and preparations!). That is Skokholm Island across the sound.
Facing straight out into the Atlantic, Renny Slip is seldom this calm. The photo shows it late on in the afternoon of Storm Ophelia, 16th October 2017. Believe it or not, that dark dot close in is an adult seal – which was coping, to say the least; but, no surprises, that day the outcome for any seal pups still beach-bound wasn’t so good.