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This section includes pictures in the following categories, which are not distinguished from one another:- commissioned pictures, pictures already sold and pictures retained by the artist or his family.
On the terrace
Artist's Catalogue No: 1069
Oil on Panel
Panel size 55.9 x 76.2 cms (22" x 30")
N.F.S
Note from the Artist: This is, of course, a commissioned painting, and this is the third version of the subject. The first two, which were the same size but were watercolours, went wrong, largely because of the difficulty of painting portraits in watercolour at this scale. The whole project took a very long time, and the client displayed astonishing patience. I began the sketches for the picture in 1980, but did not start the first watercolour until 1985. This final version, in oils on panel, was not begun until 2005, and was finished in 2011.
Corfe Castle, Dorset
Artist's Catalogue No: 1063
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 50.6 x 72.7 cms
This painting is retained within my family
Note from the Artist: Corfe Castle was built on an isolated steep sided hill that lies in the middle of a gap through the line of hills that runs across the Isle of Purbeck (so called although it is actually part of the mainland). The castle was located to guard the gap, through which the road passes. It remained intact until the Civil War, when it was held for the Royalist cause, withstanding one siege and only falling as a result of treachery during a second. In 1646 parliament ordered the destruction of the castle, a procedure known as slighting, and shortly afterwards the buildings, including the outer defences, were comprehensively destroyed by use of gunpowder. Very large chunks of masonry tumbled down the sides of the hill and still lie at the bottom.
Rosemary Lane, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Artist's Catalogue No: 1058
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 16.5 x 12.7 cms
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Note from the Artist: I lived in Bradford-on-Avon for more than twenty years. It is a very pleasant old town with many interesting buildings and several small pedestrian lanes, of which this is one.
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Artist's Catalogue No: 1057
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 16.5 x 12.7 cms
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Note from the Artist: In the twenty years that I lived in Bradford-on-Avon I painted many pictures of the town. This one shows the upstream side of the Town Bridge, from the north bank. The bridge is medieval in origin and still has two 13th century arches, but was largely rebuilt and widened in the 17th century. The structure in the middle is a splendid survival of a medieval bridge chapel, which was later converted to become the town lockup.