Tag: Oil paint
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The Weir at Spetisbury (copy)
Read more: The Weir at Spetisbury (copy)This is a copy of the landscape of the weir on the river Stour in Spetisbury. The original was painted while the family was on a summer holiday there….
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The Weir at Spetisbury
Read more: The Weir at SpetisburyThe landscape of the weir on the river Stour in Spetisbury, was painted while the family was on a summer holiday there…
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My Dilemma / Le Dilemme
Read more: My Dilemma / Le DilemmePainted in early 1974, My Dilemma represents a real dilemma Christine was facing. After emigrating to France from England two years earlier, she found herself in extreme financial straits. She was torn between the life she loved in Provence, and the allure of moving to America with its solid prospects of making money and the…
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The Village of Callian
Read more: The Village of CallianThis was the view from the small semi-detached house in the village of Montaroux where we lived for almost a year in 1972. The village across the valley is Callian.
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The Rocks at Bagnols-en-Forêt
Read more: The Rocks at Bagnols-en-ForêtThis is a very small palette knife study done after a picnic beside the road near Bagnols-en-Forêt in Provence, in the south of France. We were on…
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Child of Vietnam
Read more: Child of VietnamPainted during the Vietnamese refugee crisis following the US pull-out form the war in Vietnam, this small canvas depicts an imagined child caught in the war.
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Sir Winston Churchill
Read more: Sir Winston ChurchillThis was painted as a tribute to the great man shortly after his death in 1965. The artist was a great admirer of Churchill having been a teenager in England during World War II.