Tag: Landscape painting
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Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal
Library Mural at Meadowside Primary, Burton Latimer July – August/September 20 ‘When dark clouds pull the skyI have cast my eyeTo the path where we are treading Oh I could wrack my brainTrying to explainWhere it is I think that we are heading’ (Dr Strangely Strange) It’s been a strange year. We’ve all had to…
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited………….the movie!
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby Completed August 20 St. Brendan’s Primary School, Beanfield Avenue, Corby NN18 OAZ
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby 18 – 24 August 20 Following a 5 month interlude, last week I returned to St. Brendan’s Primary in Corby to complete the ‘Vivaldi‘ mini hall mural. On the one hand it felt like no time had passed at all and yet so much has happened. It was good to…
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby Feb – March 20 Once upon a time……. A new location, St. Brendan’s Primary in Corby, and a school with a musical reputation. Therefore when Headteacher Leanne Brydon invited me to design a painting with a collection of children’s book characters in four sections for their ‘Mini Hall’, the…
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Dido’s Lament
Remembrance Mural at Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy, Leicester Sept – Oct 19 ‘When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs createNo trouble, no trouble in thy breast;Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.Remember me, but ah! forget my fate’. (Dido’s Lament – Henry Purcell) Same place, but with a new…
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Feelin’ Alright
A Caress of Cretan Calm 26 March – 4 April 2018 “Seems I got to have a change of scene ‘Cause every night I have the strangest dreams……..” I’ve recently written a catch-up Crete visit blog and used a track by Jittery Joe as its title, so why not use him again, he was really…
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There’s A Storm Coming
Cretan Season in the Sun 19 – 26 October 2016 “We had joy, we had fun We had seasons in the sun……..” Having just returned from another visit to Crete I was about to write a new blog when I found that there wasn’t one from my previous visit. I suddenly felt very confused. After…
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Green, Green Grass of Home
Gladiator Mural (Part 4) at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester April 18 The final stage of the ‘Gladiator’ corridor at Rowlatts Hill, a grass carpet has now been laid to bring the project to a conclusion. It is the final piece of the jigsaw, the cherry on the Bakewell tart, the penalty save in added-on…
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Back Where You Started
A Step Back In Time ‘If perfection could be achieved it wouldn’t be worth having‘ A return to Thorpe Hall, 43 years later. Back in June 1974 I spent a day here painting a landscape for my ‘A’ level Art paper and made reference to it in a previous blog about my school art teacher…
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Gladiator Mural (Parts 1&2) at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester 20.2 – 5.5.17 Hard on the heels of the ‘Once Upon A Time‘ mural, my brief for this follow-on project was to transform the appearance of a fairly narrow and very busy corridor and create a taste of Tuscany, a landscape filled with grapevines and…