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07th April 2013
The Broadstone Art Society Spring Exhibition ended on 6th April and it has been a tremendous success for the Society and the benefiting charity. The standard of exhibited work was high and all exhibits were well received by the public. I was very pleased to take the Members Silver Plate Award for the best painting in a particular category which for this Exhibition was Seascape. The prize winning painting ” An exceptionally low tide,...
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10th March 2013
This commences on Saturday 30th March at 10am and finishes on Saturday 6th April.. After the Private View on 30th March the Exhibition will be open to the public between 10am and 6pm daily finishing at 4.30pm on the final day. The venue is The Youth Centre, Moor Road, Broadstone. This Spring I am exhibiting two works, one of which is a local coastal scene in oils on canvas; the other a painting of Julians Bridge, Wimborne executed in...
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06th March 2013
Google Analytics is a very useful tool. It has many good functions, one of which allows me to track the volume of daily, weekly and monthly visits to my web site and identify the general town or city location of my visitors throughout the world. I am delighted that I have new and regular return visitors living in such countries as Australia, America, Canada, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, New Zealand and the UK but regret being unable to...
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06th March 2013
Today I have put the finishing touches to an oil painting based on a pencil and watercolour reference sketch I prepared last year when there was an exceptionally low tide in Poole Harbour. At the time it was possible to walk a considerable distance from the Sandbanks Road out across the mud flats towards the distant waterline. Numerous boats which ordinarily would remain afloat were high and dry and I thought this would form a good...
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recent artwork
From Chalbury Hill to North Farm, Horton
Towards North Farm, Horton, Dorset
TSS Earnslaw approaching Queenstown on Lake Wakatipu.
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Towards North Farm, Horton, Dorset
Julians Bridge, Wimborne
About

After retiring early from a demanding and sometimes very stressful professional career as a Chartered Surveyor I decided the time was right to fulfill my ambition and concentrate on my art. I have drawn and painted in various mediums since my childhood and this passionate interest in...
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My Inspiration
My landscapes can be moody and dramatic. Acknowledging the accepted principle of Gestalt I try to keep detail to a minimum so that the viewer of my work can participate, interpret and discover. My aim is for each painting to be fresh, loose and subjective. The main influences on my work are...
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