It’s been a while since I posted to the blog, so here is a selection of images from our travels over the last two years. This group of photos are of paintings from Thailand, Cambodia, Mustique, Greece, France, England, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
Apologies for the quality of some of the photos but a number of the plein air paintings never made it back to the studio to be properly photographed. I have such fond memories of painting them that I figured I would go ahead and post them anyway.
Here, briefly, are a couple of larger studio pieces I recently finished from sketches done in September in Norfolk and Suffolk, England. They’re off to Constantine Lindsay Fine Art.
Boats at Low Tide, Burnham Overy Staithe. 80 x 100 cm, oil on linen.
Pin Mill, Low Tide. 70 x 100 cm, oil on linen.
I’m off to Austria to paint outside in the Alps tomorrow. It will be good to get out of the studio for a bit.
Boat at Low Tide, Pin Mill. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
Pin Mill is a couple of small buildings on the south shore of the the tidal River Orwell, in southern Suffolk, England.
Sailboat at Low Tide, Pin Mill. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
I recently spent three days painting there with three other plein air painters: David Bachmann, Roy Connelly, and Paul Rafferty.
The English painter Edward Seago did some of his best paintings there of the Thames barges. Since I spend a lot of time talking to other plein air painters, and Seago is seen as one of the best plein air painters of the 20th century, I assumed everyone in England had heard of Pin Mill, and that it was something of an English Giverny. So I was surprised when I called my studio painter friends in England to brag about going to paint at Pin Mill and no one had heard of the place. Then, at the B&B where I stayed up the road, they had never heard of Edward Seago.
Grey Morning, Pin Mill. 30 x 20 cm, oil on panel.
The place should be more well-known. It is one of the more picturesque quarter miles anywhere in the world. The Thames sailing barges that Seago painted are still there, and often have their sails up still.
Unfortunately, when we were there the barges were all up at the nearby town of Woodbridge for a maritime weekend. We drove there to try to paint them on the last day, but they had just left to go back to Pin Mill.
Late Morning, Pin Mill. 25 x 35 cm, oil on panel.
Pin Mill Sunset. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.