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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.
Blackthorn blossom
Artist's Catalogue No: 995
Watercolour & gouache on paper
Image size 35.4 x 46.8 cms
This painting is retained within my family
Note from the Artist: Blackthorn, the sloe tree, has grown in the hedgerows near every studio in which I have worked.
The view from the studio window, Gastard, Wiltshire
Artist's Catalogue No: 961
Acrylic on panel
Image size 15.5 x 18.0 cms
N.F.S
Note from the Artist: This is the view from a small shed at my then partner's house, that I used as a studio for most of the time that I lived in Wiltshire. Every studio I have had, as opposed to working at home, has been on or very near a working farm. This milking herd were regularly driven down the lane past the shed. I have a great liking of, and respect for, farming. It is an often derided industry that involves a lot of hard work, and we would do well to remember that not only do farmers have their feet on the ground, both literally and metaphorically, but they also grow the food we eat.
I have retained the painting.
Haltonchesters
Artist's Catalogue No: 558
Acrylic on panel
Image size 59.7 x 85.1 cms
N.F.S
Note from the Artist: Haltonchesters is the later name given to the Roman fort Onnum, which was one of the forts on Hadrian's Wall. The site is on private land and is largely unexcavated. There are no visible remains, just mounds in a grassy field. The medieval and later castle in the mid distance is Halton Castle (also private). There is a public footpath through the site, but no other public access, and parking is difficult. Anyone wanting to visit would do best to park in the hamlet of Halton, by the castle, and walk up.
My first painting of this view, without the children, was a small commissioned watercolour. The client was kind enough, or maybe sensible enough, to let me choose the subject myself - it just had to be a local landscape. I made this much larger version a year or so later, having first taken the children to the spot to pose for photographs. My elder daughter is seated to the left, my second daughter is standing and my son is seated between his sisters.
This painting is retained within my family.
The inscription round the frame reads:
Left side
THE ARTIST'S CHILDREN AT HALTONCHESTERS IN NORTHUMBERLAND • BENEATH THEIR FEET LIES
Top
ONNUM A FORT ON THE ROMAN WALL • AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS OF DISUSE SOME OF THE STONES WERE TAKEN TO BUILD HALTON CASTLE
Right side
SIX HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THAT THE CHILDREN LOOKED BUT WERE TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND • EDWARD DOWDEN
Willimoteswick Castle, Northumberland, August morning
Artist's Catalogue No: 540
Acrylic on panel
Image size 60.0 x 85.4 cms
This painting is retained within my family
Note from the Artist: As the title says I went out very early one August morning to begin the preliminary drawing for this. That drawing became a finished water-colour which was subsequently accidentally destroyed, so I made this much bigger acrylic as a replacement. The sheep, lapwings and bittern were really there, as described.
The inscription on the frame reads:
WILLIMOTESWICK CASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND
EARLY MORNING • THE AIR VERY STILL • ONLY THE SOUND OF SHEEP AND LAPWINGS, AND ONCE, FROM THE VALLEY FLOOR, THE BOOM OF A BITTERN
Rain outside my workshop window, Beaufront Woodhead, Northumberland
Artist's Catalogue No: 396
Watercolour on paper
Image size 20.0 x 23.3 cms
N.F.S
Note from the Artist: Like No: 374 this is a view from the first of the four cottages on the Beaufront estate that I rented as studios. I used the downstairs room as my framing workshop.
I made this painting on 25th May 1976. It was raining hard and I couldn't paint outdoors, so I made this instead.
I sold the painting in 1978, and bought it back in 2013. I am now retaining it.
The view from the studio window, Beaufront Woodhead, Northumberland
Artist's Catalogue No: 374
Watercolour on paper
Image size 18.3 x 19.0 cms
N.F.S
Note from the Artist: This is the view from the first of the four cottages on the Beaufront estate that I rented as studios. I used an upstairs bedroom as my painting studio. The gauze cloth on the left was to filter sunlight because the window was south facing.
I have retained the painting.