ENV 179 Bluebells - The ride through the woods
Inspired by the local bluebell woods in Beare Green and the bluebell heads just hanging over the grass.
acrylic on canvas 60x50cm £450
ENV 180 Oh! Canada
inspired by the yellow morning light I've only ever seen in Canada, as it was breaking across a field and tall line of boundary pine trees in Ontario.
acrylic on canvas 80x70cm £650 - framed in a mid grey float frame.
ENV 168 Picking Ragwort in the Meadows
Inspired by a hot day volunteering, pulling Ragwort out in Surrey meadows
Acrylic on Canvas with painted edges 50x60cm £550
ENV 169 Ragwort Harvesting
Inspired by a hot day volunteering pulling knotweed out by the root in Local Meadows
- The helpers bending over reminded me of Van Gogh's potato pickers
Acrylic on Canvas with painted edges 50x70cm £500
ENV 172 New Year Sunrise - currently in a wide natural wood frame
This was inspired by an amazing sunrise in my garden, where a dark bank of clouds were under-lit
by an orange sun. This was to be sky study, but the crisp garden outside the studio crept in.
It has a very crunchy paint surface, which adds to the image but doesn't really show in the photo.
70x50cm £550 incl. wooden frame
ENV 162 Bluebells - The Woodland Grove. 50x60cm Acrylic on canvas with painted edges. £450
Beare Green's bluebells lingered under the trees whilst the hazel and other trees burst forth with brilliant green leaves. The bank of grass in the foreground had odd flowers breaking through which gave depth to the field of green and blue beyond.
ENV 161 Bluebells - the Birch Grove. 30x20in £500 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
Bluebells are less prominent in birch areas where more light trickles across. Just after the bluebells start to fade the bracken unfurls its fronds, as bright green as the new leaves high above.
ENV 149 Seed Heads 70x50 £450 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
This smaller image of ENV 146, was roughed out when painting the commission to see if a turquoise sky would work on the larger piece. It was completed after the actual commission was delivered.
ENV 148 Agapanthus at Achitectural Plants 80x80cm £650 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
This captures the bold blue of the Agapanthus flowers that stood out against the greens of the architectural nursery's display.
ENV 138 The Bicycle, Fulham Palace 60x60cm £550 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
This captures the heat and shade of this hidden walled garden in Fulham. I love painting unusual subjects from unusual angles and this was at the Marigolds height.
ENV 129 Mistry Snowdrop Morning £500 80x60cm Acrylic with pained sides to the boxed canvas
There were so many snowdrops that I just had to try and capture them, the Magpie was there for an instant, so it was included - as a homage to Monet.
ENV 130 Mistry Snowdrop Morning 41x51cm (20x16in) £400
If you lie on the ground and paint an impression of what you see when there is a carpet of snowdrops, you get interesting views like this!
ENV 134 Small Misty Morning Snowdrops and Daffodils 51x41cm £450 Acrylic on canvas
Tiny Cyclamen and minature Daffodils came out as I was painting ENV 133, adding an opportunity for colour that was not to be missed.
ENV 133 Coronation Bluebells 80x80cm £800 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
The foreground of this canvas was repainted many times, it finally "worked" on the day of King Charles'
Coronation, leading to it's title.
ENV 117 Square Bluebell 60x60 £500 Acrylic on Canvas with painted edges
This smallish Bluebell picture captures an impression of the bright light on leaves in the Hazel copse, at the time when the Bluebells are still a rich colour, but just starting to fade.
ENV135 SOLD Moon Daisy Meadow beside the Rides 20x16in Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
Wild Flower seed was scattered next to this stables training gallop, which runs around the fence,
a year later it reverted to nearly all natural British wild flowers.
110x80cm ENV 119 Flower Meadow by the Gallops 1. 60x60 £500. Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
This is a favourite scene to paint - I love the abstract flowers in this one.
One day I will expand these brush marks into a huge canvas!
ENV 124 Flowers beside the Rides 80x60cm £400. Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
Painted on a box canvas the Daisies and Vetch are less abstract, but still make a forceful image.
ENV 120 SOLD Flower Meadow by the Gallops II 60x50cm
SOLD ENV 146 SOLD Commission - Seed Head Revisited 120x80cm Acrylic on canvas.
The brief was to create a statement piece to fit over a fireplace in a certain room, which mixed abstractness and detail. All they said on seeing this was WOW!
SOLD ENV 144 - 114 Springtime Love - Blue Haze 110x80cm SOLD
This started life as an autumn scene, but after a lot of paint where the basic tree outlines remained the same as originally painted, it became this wonderland of bluebells.
ENV 127 Harvest 90x60cm £500 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
This captures the day after harvest: the bales were still in the field,
the stubble was yellow, and left over ears just completed the view.
ENV 125 The Hottest Day 90x60cm £500 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
There were spots of colour around my garden on the hottest day of the year,
they might not have actually been all in one place, but they all squeezed into the canvas.
ENV 121 Birling Gap 1m Sq £600 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
I am taken with unusual views. Lying on the ground, catching people going back down the cliff was worth waiting for.
ENV 128 Walking away from Summer 60x60cm £350 Acrylic on canvas with painted edges
This is a bolder coloured, smaller version, of the ENV 127 Birling Gap painting,
specially done for people who prefer earth tones!
ENV 101 Inspired by Catskill Lakes in NY State 120x80cm £600 Acrylic on Canvas with painted edges
This large lake image started as an unfinished beach picture, but on returning from North America, it emerged into an impression of the lakes I had just visited.
ENV 123 SOLD Beare Green Bluebells 1m sq SOLD
This image was taken as a "potential size" canvas for a client wanting to commission an image for her new house. It never left the living room which already had blue settees, and now lives with one of my smaller Bluebell wood images.
ENV 113 SOLD Bluebells April 2021 80x60cm SOLD
This was all about the bright leaves above and the darker patches and bright blue below.
ENV 118 SOLD Square Bluebell Wood 80x60cm SOLD
SOLD ENV 112 Spring March 2021 80x60cm SOLD. ENV 116 Summer Garden SOLD
My garden opens onto fields, and the changing light and seasons never fails to inspire impressionistic images which people seem to relate to their own gardens.
Cornish Lane near Bodmin Framed external 73x62cms, Oil on board 24x20in £500
Dappled Summer sunlight inspired this image and the following one. As they are on board, they had to be framed. The flat area was rubbed with olive green.
The Mossy lane to the Moor, Cornwall Frame external 73x62cms, Oil on board 24x20in £500
Dappled Summer sunlight inspired this image and the previous one. As they are on board, they had to be framed. The flat area was rubbed with olive green.
Reflections down the Camel River,Cornwall (large) Frame external 87x61cm, Oil on board 30x208in £650
Cycling along the Camel Trail, I paused and standing on a root saw the river curled away from me with
incredible reflections. This impression of the river, and the smaller following one were completed over 6 months!
Reflections down the Camel River, Cornwall (small) Frame external 52x42cm, Oil on board 16x12in £400
Cycling along the Camel Trail, I paused and standing on a root saw the river curled away from me with incredible reflections. This smaller impression and the larger one above were completed at home over 6 months!
The Smugglers Lane, Cornwall Frames external 42x52cm, Oil on board 14x18in £400
Cycling to the Camel Trail coming down from Exmoor, you find deep lanes with plants covered their sides.
The bright light and deep shadows inspired this image.
