by David | Mar 6, 2021 | Inspirations
Dale Head, Newlands Valley, Derwentwater. Watercolour and pen on watercolour paper. I don’t often paint in watercolour. I’ve no idea why, perhaps I have enough difficulty painting in oils and acrylics that I don’t want to complicate life unduly. But...
by David | Feb 23, 2021 | Inspirations
My latest painting is another painting of Whitby – one of my favourite places. This view you is from the beach looking towards the magnificent harbour walls with the two lighthouse beacons guiding fishing boats back to this famous seaside resort. It was the inky...
by David | Jan 1, 2021 | Inspirations
by David | Nov 6, 2020 | Inspirations, Landscape, Nature, Work in Progress
A lovely autumn walk through the local woods near my hometown in Bolton. It’s a quiet morning, the morning after bonfire night. All the smoke from the night before has more or less dispersed, but there is a smell of smoke and gunpowder still lingering in the...
by David | May 9, 2020 | Inspirations
Clouds on a spring day (May 9th 2020) A long succession of fine days during the Covid 19 quarantine lockdown has left not much else to do than sit in the garden and stare into the bluest of skies. Skies that are untroubled by airplanes for the first time in memory....
by David | Feb 29, 2020 | Inspirations
Winter Sunshine I always find the process of framing a painting very difficult and I tend to avoid framing my painting wherever possible. Framing tends to expensive, especially good frames. But for me the trickiest part of framing is trying to guess what would look...
