COAST & COUNTRYSIDE 2013
“During the hot July days this year the sea & sky around Portland have been unusually still, cool blues reflect onto the white stone around the quarries, the air full of blue butterflies. The only sound is a small fishing boat chugging out to the Bill leaving a trail of white foam along the horizon. I am surrounded by blue”.
“This new series of paintings have been made this summer and are my response to the coast & countryside that surround Weymouth bay. The chalk downs have been a mass of wild flowers, the air full of butterflies & bees. The sea has been a calm cool turquoise, the sky gentle blue. The hill paths are bright chalk white. The short grass a pale grey green, then later bleached to the colour of sand. The woodlands in May were cool & dark which shot to life with the most startling iridescent bluebells imaginable. From the hills I can look down onto Weymouth Bay, large colourful container ships come & go from the busy harbour and can always be seen sitting on the horizon waiting their turn to enter the port. From high up on Portland I can look across to that thin strip of shingle which is Chesil beach stretching to West Bay and beyond. These paintings are my response to the summer of 2013 in and around Weymouth, Dorset".
“During the hot July days this year the sea & sky around Portland have been unusually still, cool blues reflect onto the white stone around the quarries, the air full of blue butterflies. The only sound is a small fishing boat chugging out to the Bill leaving a trail of white foam along the horizon. I am surrounded by blue”.
“This new series of paintings have been made this summer and are my response to the coast & countryside that surround Weymouth bay. The chalk downs have been a mass of wild flowers, the air full of butterflies & bees. The sea has been a calm cool turquoise, the sky gentle blue. The hill paths are bright chalk white. The short grass a pale grey green, then later bleached to the colour of sand. The woodlands in May were cool & dark which shot to life with the most startling iridescent bluebells imaginable. From the hills I can look down onto Weymouth Bay, large colourful container ships come & go from the busy harbour and can always be seen sitting on the horizon waiting their turn to enter the port. From high up on Portland I can look across to that thin strip of shingle which is Chesil beach stretching to West Bay and beyond. These paintings are my response to the summer of 2013 in and around Weymouth, Dorset".