Tree between Stanford and Napier – OP406 Tree Near Stanford is a oil painting on a stretched canvas measuring 305 x 406 mm or 12 x 16 inches. That’s the detail, now let me tell you about the painting and why it got painted. There is a thing about dead trees, or rather, some people […]
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Fire
Tabasco Bottle and two Chillies – OP403 Fire is the name of this small oil painting on a canvas panel It comes framed in the heavy wooden frame you see above. The canvas itself is 152 x 203 mm and the frame adds about 75 mm to length and breadth. Why such a small canvas? […]
Roses In A Bottle
Mothers’s Day Roses in a Bottle – OP402 A few days after Mother’s Day in 2016 I attended my first art lesson. I had a canvas, some paint and a bottle with turpentine with me. I wonder what went through Alyson’s mind that first Wednesday. “So” says Alyson “What would you like to paint?”. “No” […]
Canola Field
Dead Tree in a field of Canola – Ref OP401 This small Oil Painting on a canvas panel measures 102 x 152 mm or 4 x 6 inches. As you can see Canola Field is in a heavy antique frame , which goes with the painting, don’t you think? If you wanted to see this […]
Kiss Me Kate
In Stone Street, New York – AP409 This is a monochrome/sepia type acrylic painting on a stretched canvas. It measures 203 x 203 mm or 8 x 8 inches. How this painting came into being was that I was surfing around the web looking for suitable ideas. I came across a black and white painting […]
Boat at Paternoster
Fisherman’s boat on the West Coast – South Africa – OP422 Years ago we found this old fisherman’s boat outside a shop in the fishing village of Paternoster. Paternoster is situated about 160 km from Capetown and is reached by taking the N7 out of the city. At the time it was filled with orange […]
Shepherd’s Hut
Lonely Shepherd’s hut on a farm near Caledon – South Africa – OP414 In the days before tarred roads, pickup trucks and the ubiquitous 16 seater taxis, farmers would send a shepherd with the flocks of sheep of to distant grazing. They were housed in small shepherd huts similar to the one depicted in this […]
After The Drought
Mielie (Corn) Field – Free State – South Africa – OP425 South Africa is generally a water scarce country and over the last few years many areas have suffered drought conditions. In places the drought has broken but in parts of North Western Province, Northern Cape and Free State the drought still persists (March 2019). […]
Tree On A Hillside
Clinging manfully to the hillside – AP427 This lovely tree on the side of a hill was inspired by a painting video by Clive Powell and a poem. It is an acrylic painting on a canvas panel measuring 15 cm x 21 cm ONE TREE Against a clear and deep blue sky,One tree stretched tall, its branches […]
Cottage in Alcester
Not far from Stratford-Upon-Avon – AP434 This “Streetscape” is of a little cottage in the village of Alcester in the UK county of Warwickshire. It has a history going back to the time of the Roman Empire. Alcester is about 8 km from the home of William Shakespeare , Stratford-Upon-Avon, so its quite likely that […]