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Category: Mixed media

The Olive Tree

The Olive Tree

 Artwork, Colour, Drawing, Ink, Mixed media, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Trees, Urban

Olive trees are great – when they get old they become wonderfully gnarly, and they produce olives, which are good to eat – but you don’t find many growing in the woods around here. They are neither native nor naturalised in Britain, but they can…
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|Lisbon |olive |olive tree
Brewer’s Dray

Brewer’s Dray

 Animals, Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Horses, Ink, Mixed media, on paper, watercolour

When I went to Devizes to deliver my work to the White Chalk Gallery (Open Exhibition) I happened to be in the car park behind the Three Crowns, when Wadworth, a local brewery, were delivering their beer. This was only noteworthy because they were using…
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|brewery |Devizes |Draft horse |Shire horse |Wadworth |Wiltshire |working horse
Donkey Throng – SOLD

Donkey Throng – SOLD

 Acrylic, Animals, Artwork, Colour, Drawing, Ink, Mixed media, on kaolin-coated board, SOLD

I went out for a walk to visit a mermaid and came across a field full of mediterranean miniature donkeys. The mermaid was a carving on the door-surround of the tiny Norman church of St. Swithun’s in Nately Scures, near Hook in Hampshire. She’d lost…
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|donkey |mediterranean miniature donkey |miniature donkey |throng
Silver Birch (blue and gold) series

Silver Birch (blue and gold) series

 Acrylic, Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Extra, Featured, Ink, Mixed media, on wood, Painting, Trees, under £100

The striking monochromacity of silver birch is a natural fit with pen and ink, but I wanted to do something different with it. So I decided to try drawing on wood. I had several 12 by 12 inch squares of plywood – by chance, it…
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|Gold |Silver Birch
Oak Bole

Oak Bole

 Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Mixed media, on paper, Trees

This wonderful hollow tree is on the A339 near Greenham Common. I used pens, pencils, pastels and a variety of bottled inks in my attempt to portray the weathered and gnarly surface of its trunk (bole is another word for tree trunk). Oak Bole mixed…
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|Oak

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