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Just off the easel
On the beach I haven’t posted in a while but not been idle, despite a busy summer with family and visitors. Several visits to the beach along the Fife coast have provided inspiration. On the left is a view from Tentsmuir Nature Reserve looking toward St. Andrews. North Fife is an agricultural region and the…
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Work in progress
I have several unfinished pantings upstairs in my studio but it is far too pleasant outside to be stuck indoors. The garden has really taken off in the past couple of weeks and is currently decked in full summer splendour. Time to get out the watercolours then. In the images below, I am trying to…
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Work in progress
Morton Lochs Water is a recurring theme in my work and has been the focus for my last few paintings. Morton Lochs are part of the Tentsmuir Nature Reserve in North East Fife. This image was taken from one of the bird hides on a sunny afternoon in late March. The challenge here is to…
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Just off the easel
Working with children and animals I don’t often capture living beings in my work but the two paintings featured here are part of a trilogy on the theme of ’summer afternoon’. This painting shows my son’s dog Willow resting in the shade of a monkey puzzle tree in my garden one day in June last…
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