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!
ENV 149 Seed Heads 70x50 £450 Acrylic on canvas
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 commission was delivered.
ENV 148 Agapanthus at Achitectural Plants 80x80cm £700 Acrylic on canvas
This captures the bold blue of the Agapanthus that stood out against the green of the nursery's display.
ENV 138 The Bicycle, Fulham Palace 60x60cm £600 Acrylic on canvas
This captures the heat and shade of this hidden walled garden in Fulham. I love painting from unusual subjects and angles and this was from almost ground level looking up!.
ENV 129 Mistry Snowdrop Morning £450 80x60cm Acrylic on boxed canvas
There were so many snowdrops last year that I had to try and capture them, the Magpie was there for an instant, so included as a homage to Monet.
ENV 130 Mistry Snowdrop Morning 40.5x51cm (20x16in) £400
If you lie on the ground and paint an impression of what you see you get interesting views like this.
ENV 134 Small Misty Morning Snowdrops and Daffodils 51x41cm £450 Acrylic on canvas
Cyclamen and tiny 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 £700 Acrylic on canvas
The foreground was repainted many times, finally it worked on the
Coronation day, leading to its title.
ENV 117 Square Bluebell 60x60 £400 Acrylic on Canvas
This smallish Bluebell picture captures an impression of the bright light on leaves in the Hazel copse, at the time when the Bluebells are starting to blow.
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, it became this wonderland of bluebells.
ENV135 Moon Daisy Meadow beside the Rides 20x16in £400 Acrylic on canvas
Wild Flower seed was sewn next to this stables training gallop around the fence,
a year later it reverted to nearly all natural British wild flowers.
ENV 119 Flower Meadow by the Gallops 1. 60x60 £500. Acrylic on canvas
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 120 Flower Meadow by the Gallops II 60x50 SOLD
ENV 124 Flowers beside the Rides 2022 £450. Acrylic on canvas
Painted on a box canvas the Daisies and Vetch are less abstract, but still make a forceful image.
ENV 127 Harvest 90x60cm £500 Acrylic on canvas
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
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 got into the canvas.
ENV 121 Birling Gap 1m Sq £600 Acrylic on canvas
I am so taken with unusual views and lying on the ground, watching people back down the cliff was worth painting.
ENV 128 Walking away from Summer 60x60cm £300 Acrylic on canvas
This is a bolder coloured, smaller version, of the ENV 127 Birling Gap painting,
for people who prefer earth tones!
ENV 122 Birling Gap 2022 80x60cm £190 Acrylic on canvas
I'm not massively into painting people but without them on this canvas,
where is the story - price reflects that it was invisibly repaired after damage in transit!
ENV 101 Inspired by Catskill Lakes in NY State 120x80cm £650 Acrylic on Canvas
This large lake image started as an unfinished beach picture, but on returning from North America, it became an impression of the lakes I had seen.
ENV 123 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 Bluebells April 2021 80x60cm SOLD
This was all about the bright leaves above and the darker patches and bright blue below.
ENV 118 Square Bluebell Wood 80x60cm 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 £450
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 £450
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 24x18in £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 at home over 6 months!
Reflections down the Camel River, Cornwall (small) Frame external 52x42cm, Oil on board 16x12in £350
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 350
Cycling to the Camel Trail coming down from Exmoor, you find deep lanes with steep plant covered sides. Their bright light and deep shadows inspired this image.
