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Horse Chestnuts

5.5″X7″ Mixed media on paper You know that Autumn is really here when the ground is strewn with shiny chestnuts and their spent casings.This one is fountain pen and watercolour pencil. I have used my waterbrush to spread the colour. [...]

Washstand

10″X8″ Watercolour on paper One of the big disadvantages of using archival material is trying to remember whether I have already posted it. This one goes back a few years. A friend had a very primitive cottage, only accessible from the river. It wa… [...]

Early Pears

7″X5″ Oil on board Summer is almost over, we have already processed our first bushel of tomatoes. Soon there will be apples which are still probably my all-time favourite fruit. This pear looked so luscious that I really needed to paint it. [...]

Purple Plums

6″X6″ Oil on panelI am not as fond of plums as the rest of my family, but they do look luscious don’t they? [...]

Peaches in a Glass Bowl

6″X6″ Oil on panel A continuation of the “three things on round thing” theme. Peaches are always an interesting challenge because of the fuzz. [...]

Mirror

5″X7″ Oil on board I can’t for the life of me remember what these are called. They are quite rose-like, especially the buds, but are thornless and the leaves are arranged in opposing pairs (decussate?). I picked up a couple of bunches at the market… [...]

Yellow Plums

6″X4″ Oil on board I feel like I have painted this before, certainly others much like it. A bit of a cop-out today, I am working on a commission so I wanted to do something quick and simple for my daily painting. I don’t really do commissions, in f… [...]

Early Apricots

7″X5″ Oil on panel These are painted a little larger than life size, they are very small and not quite ripe. I do love soft fruit season, soon it will be peaches which are probably my favourite. This hasn’t been a good year for the fruit growers th… [...]

Three Aubergines

6″X6″ Oil on panel Aubergines, a.k.a. eggplant, I haven’t painted them for a while. The middle one is called “graffiti”. Not much more to say really. The plate is “cargo ware” so named because they were imported in huge numbers and were used as bal… [...]

Making Umbrellas

7″X5″ Oil on board

I have mentioned before I think that lavender grows well in my sandy garden. My grandmother had a huge lavender bush by her front gate. Every year she would make these “lavender umbrellas” and when I was small I would help her gather the lavender spears and thread them through [...]