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Category Archives: Landscape art
Winter light
For some time now, like one of those playful little projects saved up for nothing but the enjoyment of doing them, I’d been meaning to compile a video made up my of all the tiny snippets of footage of winter … Continue reading
Posted in Animal art, Art, Art purpose, Art technique, Birds, Landscape art, Music & theatre, Music composition, Nature, Seasons, Social media, Walks
Tagged ambient, Berkshire, butterfly, geese reproducing early, light, mild winter, red kite, River Blackwater, seasons, seasons are altering, skylark, sunlight, Swallowfield, video, video as art, winter, winter butterfly spotted
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Ten (painting) days in December
As the final month of the year approached, and my urge to take a step back from the long, super-intense painting process of my bigger work took hold, I decided to do something extremely light-hearted as a countdown to Christmas … Continue reading
When time stood still in Provence…
We knew we were in France again as soon as we started seeing the electricity pylons that look like giant cats with whiskers. The second clue was the distinctive jingle that always plays (loudly) out of the French railway station … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Entertainment, Films, Floral art, Holiday destinations, Landscape art, Light, Literature, Meditation, Painting, Personal Development, Photography, Seasons, Travel
Tagged A Good Year, beyond time, Bonnieux, Cezanne's studio, energy art, gardens, Gordes, holidays, Jean de Florette, La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Lourmarin, Marcel Pagnol, moments of light, Mont Sainte-Victoire, My Father's Glory, My Mother's Castle, painting energy, Peter Mayle, Provence, radiance, Stillness, transcendence, travel by train
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Cycling to Giverny
It’s already August and we are well into holiday season, which inevitably turns thoughts to other years, other holidays…not least when the inspiration they provided is only now turning into the fruit of another year’s paintings. Having very recently completed … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art history, Art technique, Biography, Floral art, History, Holiday destinations, Landscape art, Light, Painting, Photography, Travel
Tagged after Monet, Claude Monet, contemporary Giverny paintings, cycling tour, Fat Tire Bike Tours, Gare Saint-Lazare, Giverny, Helen White Artist, Monet's Garden, painting Monet's garden, Paris, reflection, water
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Summer solstice
As I’m sure I’ve shared before, I love to observe the solstices and equinoxes in particular ways but the summer solstice has to be my favourite of them all; a high pinacle of light before the steady shortening of days. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Landscape art, Nature, Painting, Photography, Seasons, Universe, Walks
Tagged Berkshire, countryside, golden light, hedgerows, high summer, paintings of summer, photography of sunsets, ritual, summer solstice, sunset
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