Last Wednesday was warm and dry, perfect weather for sitting on a hill and painting. I decided to find another open access hillside, and settled upon West Woodhay Down – about 12 miles distant, and a place that I had previously walked and sketched but…
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The warm weather tempted me out again to Stubbington Down. This time, I climbed to the top (it’s very steep) and made my way round to the left so that I had a rather different view of Cannon Heath Down. The painting’s name, White Hill,…
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This was painted, en plein air, in the last of September’s sunshine. There is a convenient patch of access land on the steep slope of Stubbington Down with a view across the rich farmland of the vale of Kingsclere, looking west towards Beacon Hill and…
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In the main post for this painting, I mentioned the dramatic stacking effect of the waves. It brought to mind some half-remembered words concerning a fearsome ninth wave: Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep…
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Savernake Forest near Marlborough in Wiltshire is a large, privately owned, area of ancient woodland that is open to the public 364 days of the year (the single annual day of closure allows the owners to retain the property). The forest car park is at the…
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