by David | Apr 27, 2019 | Inspirations, Lancashire, Landscape, Paintings
Here’s a painting that I completed outside. I don’t usually finish a painting outside but this one combined the colours and sense of distance that I wanted to suggest, so I varnished it and call it finished. Regular viewers will also notice that it’s... 
by David | Apr 16, 2019 | Inspirations, Lancashire, Landscape, Paintings
Spring is here, it’s official! So here’s a painting that features bluebells, carpeting the woodland floor like drifting smoke. This was painted during May, in a lucky year when the hawthorn bushes were covered in white blossoms at the same time as the... by dpott | Dec 30, 2016 | Inspirations, Landscape
A bright and cold day between Christmas and the New Year found me painting this view into the setting sun from near Rivington in Lancashire. Painting like this, into a low bright sun, provides plenty of challenges, not least the eyestrain from squinting into the low... by dpott | Oct 1, 2016 | Landscape, Nature, Uncategorized, Work in Progress
Here’s a small painting that takes a long view. I’m fascinated by zoomed up views of objects on the far horizon – the way the colours merge towards the blue end of the spectrum and the way the features flatten out and tend towards abstraction. The... 
by dpott | Sep 20, 2016 | Inspirations, Landscape, Uncategorized, Work in Progress
This long summer continues so I’m making the most of it and painting watercolours near my home. I’m lucky to live on the edge of the west pennine moors and a short climb always rewards with panoramic views over Lancashire and Cheshire. Today’s view... by dpott | Jun 11, 2016 | Inspirations, Landscape, Uncategorized
I’m currently working on another moorland landscape. Here’s what I’m thinking as I paint. Long lines seem to be inscribed on the moors which become overwritten with the roads, paths and field boundaries as the cross, join and erase... 