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Lockdown art
One of several paintings I’ve completed over the past 10 weeks and one of my favourites. This image was inspired by a visit to Findhorn beach just before lockdown; my first visit to that part of Scotland. We managed to avoid the rain although it could be clearly seen on the horizon to the north…
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Work in progress April 2020
Lockdown art Travel restrictions being what they are at the moment, I’m having to rely more than usual on photographs and sketches from expeditions gone by. I did manage to squeeze in four days in the north; just before lock down but just after toilet paper and hand sanitiser couldn’t be bought for love nor…
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Work in progress March 2020
The Well Another watercolour on the theme of ‘forgotten places’. This medieval well is one of three to be found on the site of the Astley Ainslie Hospital in Edinburgh. Now sealed off, these wells were a source of water for victims of the plague who found refuge at the chapel of St. Roque in…
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Fidra
Painting of the month for February, reviewed by Patrick McConnell Stevenson’s Lighthouse, Fidra Island In this painting of a lighthouse on an island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, Helen deftly captures the essence of the contradictory elements of the tranquility of the backgrounding scene and the wilder weather just offshore. On the foreshore rest black…
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