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 5, 2020 | Landscape, New Paintings
Bow Fell from Pike O’Blisco by David Pott. Acrylic painting. 24×18 inches. A new painting. This is Bow Fell from Pike O’Blisco in the English Lake District. You can see that I’ve really enjoyed layering on thick juicy slabs of intense paint to... 
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 called it finished. Regular viewers will also notice that... 
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...