Brownsea Island

Landscape painting of Brownsea Island 1964

Size: 12″ x 8″
Media: Oil paint, palette knife on bristol board
Date: 1964
Where: Brownsea Island, Dorset, UK
Signature: “benson ’64”
Currently: In the family collection

This is a small “picnic painting” of Brownsea Island which lies in the middle of Poole harbour, near Bournemouth. Evidently, this was a very windy day with photogenic clouds blowing through. This sort of picnic painting would be done in a very short time, during the hour or so after eating, while my brother and I amused ourselves.



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