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This section includes pictures in the following categories, which are not distinguished from one another:- commissioned pictures, pictures already sold and pictures retained by the artist or his family.
Chemin de la Valmoura, St Cezaire-sur-Siagne, France
Artist's Catalogue No: 1023
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 28.0 x 35.5 cms
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Note from the Artist: A small unexceptional road on the edge of the village, painted mostly in situ on four successive August days between 11.00am and 1.00pm, while on holiday in the village of St Cezaire-sur-Siagne, which is in southern France, inland from Cannes. Mediterranean light is noticeably different from the light in the UK, and I wanted to paint it on the spot - this location offered a nice quiet place to do that.
Elemental Landscape
Artist's Catalogue No: 1017
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 49.5 x 72.5 cms
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Note from the Artist: I painted this shortly before the practice of stubble burning ended, because I knew that the decision to ban burning had been taken. The painting is deliberately dramatic, almost apocalyptic, because it represents the impending end of a long-standing agricultural practice. The place depicted is near a road intersection in Wiltshire known as Five-Ways, on the road between Bradford-on-Avon and Corsham, and the burning was really taking place there. The title refers to earth, air, fire and water, all of which are present.
Uppark, Sussex
Artist's Catalogue No: 1016
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 50.8 x 72.4 cms
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Note from the Artist: Uppark is a large country house in Sussex that stands in an isolated position on the top of the South Downs, to the north-west of Chichester, and near the Hampshire border. The house was built around 1690, altered a little in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and given to the National Trust in 1954. I grew up in Sussex and was familiar with the house, so its near destruction in a disastrous fire in August 1989 came as a horrible shock. It took the National Trust six years to carry out a truly extraordinary and immaculate restoration, bringing a smouldering shell and rubble back to something very close to the way it looked just before the fire, without making it look new. I had begun the pencil stage of this painting earlier, but I didn't feel like completing it after the fire. Later I began again on different paper, and made the new version between 1997 and 1999.
The painting depicts the building before the fire, but the only discernible difference to its present appearance is in the number of chimney pots. The redness in the sky is a deliberate reference to the impending disaster.
St Michael's Mount, Cornwall
Artist's Catalogue No: 996
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 17.0 x 24.7 cms
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Note from the Artist: I painted this in homage to my late father, who had painted the view from this same spot, the hotel at Marazion, when we were on holiday in Cornwall. I was very young at the time, perhaps two or three years old, but I can just remember a few aspects of the holiday. St Michael's Mount is accessible along the causeway when the tide is out, but is cut off when the tide comes in.
I have retained the painting.