Tag: Oil paint
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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.
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The Copsewood Avenue Garden
Read more: The Copsewood Avenue GardenThis a small palette knife painting of the back garden at #10 Copsewood Avenue in Bournemouth. I think it was painted around 1964 or 65 judging by the size of the apple tree we planted when we first moved there. I feel like this painting was done as a personal challenge… Another small painting that…
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Grief
Read more: GriefI think Greif is a portrait that was painted as part of a quest to find portrait subject matter that might appeal to a broader audience that just those related to the person in the painting. However, I am not sure….
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Dr. Whitehead
Read more: Dr. WhiteheadThe Dr. Whitehead portrait was an early commission that my mother painted when she first moved back to her home town of Bournemouth after her divorce, see the Biography for details. She was…..
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Dorset Countryside
Read more: Dorset CountrysideThis is another small “picnic painting” done of the Dorset countryside, provably painted in the late summer as the crops in the fields matured.
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The River Avon
Read more: The River AvonI think this is an unfinished painting of the River Avon near Sopley in Dorset. Another small painting that appears to be done with a lot vigor and speed. My mother felt…
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The Purple Alps
Read more: The Purple AlpsThe Purple Alps was a small landscape painted while the family was on holiday in the South of France long before she emigrated there. This holiday was the planting of that seed, see,,,.
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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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Janet Chapman
Read more: Janet ChapmanJanet Chapman was a commissioned portrait. Janet and Malcom Chapman were the young couple who moved into my mother’s flat at #9 Riviera, after she moved to her house on Copsewood Avenue, see….
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Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P.
Read more: Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P.This portrait of Lt Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall M.P. was done as a commission for the Vintners’ Company in London. I think the commission was arranged by Harry Jackson-Pownall as Sir Assheton Pownall was an ancestor of his wife Marjorie. If you have read…