An array of green scraps of texture and colour prompted this picture after I saw a news article about exciting tiny forests in urban areas. There is an interesting Ted talk on the subject online – a 100 years of growth in 10, in small areas. The idea came from Akira Miyawaki, a Japanese botanist.
For sale on Singulart.
Allotments come in all sorts of sizes and states of tidiness! There are ancient gardeners who can grow anything in tidy rows with no visible weeds, crazy plots where chickens grub up plants inside huge homemade wire cages, and the sadly neglected plots where, among the docks, nettles and couch grass, raspberries and blackberries struggle to see the light. (The currants have been gobbled up by pigeons and the lettuce by rabbits!)
A recent painting for sale on Singulart.
Mammoth pigeons to carry missives or provide a meal for a big family!! For sale on Singulart.
A recent painting for sale on Singulart.
This is to be my birthday card from lockdown!
A new painting for sale on Singulart.
(A happier time than the 5 o’clock of Lorca’s poem, the subject of Terry Frost’s dramatic print Lament for Ignacio Sanches Mejias.)
A new picture for sale on Singulart.
A new painting in acrylic over collage. For sale on Singulart
An image for sale on Singulart
What unlikely news is being imparted? Probably about Covid and Christmas but, horror, no masks in sight. Oh dear! For sale on Singulart
A picture found in a random beginning. Maybe they are going home after a long day.
A picture for sale on Singulart
A recent painting developed over a random collage of hand-decorated papers. For sale on Singulart
Not intended (luckily!) to be a true picture of the quaint little town, this detail refers to one of the many churches, the river and boats. I loved my visits to the town and the many characters I met. The wonderful individuals, news and gossip always reminded me of those famous residents of another of the Cinque Ports: Mapp and Lucia and their doings!
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A new painting with a title chosen to suggest terraces of colourful houses! For sale on Singulart
I recently finished another version of my sketches in Brighton. It is for sale on Singulart
I don’t get so many chances to do blind drawings of folk at jazz dates now but enjoyed many such occasions in the past.
