Scraping Cloud, Cliffsend.
Scraping Cloud,Cliffsend….. oil 33″x23″ worked on this piece throughout July and August with Holiday in the middle. these larger works are a lot of fun,sometimes I have to watch the weather forecast and rush to the location and wait for the right sky.This Cloud was a little different.
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Shakespeare Cliff
£ 750
Shakespeare Cliff 302×30″ Oil Paint.. Probably the highest of the White Cliffs of Dover, stands guard over the English Channel and Dover Harbour. Situated on the West side of the town and not the easyist place to find, the shingle beach is the only protection for the Mainline to London.
A Different Place
£ 550
A Different Place.. oil 33″x24 Looking Southwest towards Minster, a cloudy day, the light was good though. The green alge has taken a hold on the concrete shoreline, the sea grass and reed have late summer colour. The low cloud is scudding in from the southwest
Early morning, January
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Early Morning, January oil 16″ x 16″… I think it was around minus eight degrees, with no wind and a clear sky. my hands were so cold, the sun was so slow coming over the horizon plus the cold air made the sunrise an event to remember.
Lookout, Dymchurch
£ 300
Lookout Dymchuch oil 16″x12″ .. The WW One lookout Stands sentinel over Hythe Bay waiting for the enemy to show on the horizon, still faithful after a century of duty. Or was, during the building of the new sea wall, the structure was taken down and moved to storage somewhere, so I was told. Paul Nash painted the building as “Nostalgic Landscape”. I think he got the title of the work so right.
The Ferry Berth
£ 650
The Ferry Berth..oil.. 40″ X16″..Here we see the iron shuttering that was the berth for the channel ferry that took transport and munitions to Flanders during WW One. Now long abandoned to nature and a Seal colony, another part of the Pegwell bay landscape.
The Warren
£ 700
Looking North on a sunny afternoon, the heavy concrete sea defenses extend along the shoreline to Dover size 30″x 30″
Deal Pier
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acrylic 40″x30″ A recent commission for a customer.” Deal Pier” at sunrise is a very popular local landmark known to residents and visitors to my town. Opened in 1958 by The Duke of Edinburgh, I was there at the age of eleven with my school to witness the event. I spent many hours fishing on this pier. Since then I have made a few watercolors and oil paintings of this venue.
Reculver Towers 1
£ 175
watercolour 12″x10″ originally a Roman fort, much of which has been devoured by the sea. The twin towers are the remains of a church now disappeared. The towers are now maintained as a landmark for shipping in the Thames estuary.
Sound Mirrors
£ 175
watercolor 13″x10″…Standing sentinel for over a century are several sound mirrors built by the then government to watch over the eastern shores of England. alas, they were redundant as soon as they were built with the advent of radar.
Winter on the Brooks
£ 150
watercolour 13″x9″ At the back of my town is a valley with a stream that drains the surrounding chalk hills. Now a nature reserve.
The Long Barrow at All Cannings
£ 200
watecolour 13″x10″ The first long barrow built for 2500 years. This Barrow, not many miles away from Stonehenge and Avebury Circle was built around eight years ago. For a fee, humans can have their ashes interred inside the Barrow in their niche. The are currently no free spaces available.
Navigation mark
£ 200
watercolour 12″x 10″ The structure must have been erected after WW 2 as a site mark for shipping passing Dungeness Point. Now suffering a bit from age it may just collapse onto the shingle at some point in time. The new lighthouse can be seen in the background.
Sea grass in winter
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Oil on canvas 11″x8″ The sea grass and reedbeds take on their winter colours in the Autumn, and rich browns and ochre dominate the landscape.
The Big Mirror wall, Lydd, Dungeness
£ 550
The Big Mirror Wall, oil 30″x30″ l0caten at Lydd, Dungeness. Built early in the last century to enable the detection of enemy aircraft coming across the English Channel. The idea is that any sound is reflected to the centre of the wall where it is picked up on a microphone. It was partially successful but was superceded by the development of Radar.
Runway Two
£ 550
Runway Two,, oil,, 30″x30″ On this work can be seen the broken white marker for Hovercraft when leaving the shore for France. The weather coming in from the southwest is also a mjor feature in this work.
A Distant World
£ 300
watercolour 16″x12″..A watercolour looking southwest along the eastern side of the old Hoverport. Cloud coming over from inland.
A View to the Future
£ 100
A View to the Future. A small silkscreen print with an overlaid wash. 11″x8″ inches.
Sound Mirror, Reverse
£ 450
Sound Mirror Reverse acrylic 24″x 24″ Near Dungeness are to be found a small number of sound mirrors built early in the last century. These were used to detect enemy aircraft coming across the English Channel. the idea is that a microphone heard engine noise. this study shows the supporting rear construction.
Pegwell, North Coastline
£ 275
Pegwell, North Coastline oil 16″x12″ looking northeast towards Ramsgate, a seemingly quieter side of the bay, strictly for the birds. On a summer’s evening at low tide, it is not unusual to see several white Cattle Egrets feeding on the muddy sands.
Copt Point and Harbour Arm
£ 750
Copt Point and Harbour Arm oil 30″x30″ Folkestone Harbour from the Rocky Point. The blockhouse was used as a sump for wastewater discharge. No longer in use. there was also one at Dymchuch, now destroyed.
Along the Shore with found objects
£ 250
Along the Shore with found objects.. 10″x 8″watercolor….. The rocky foreshore of Copt Point, looking north. A favorite location for fossil hunters, Mammoth teeth have been found here.
Cockle Shells
£ 250
Cockle Shells oil on linen 16″x 12″ The south side of the Hoverport where the concrete meets the salt marsh. The wind and tides have pushed several tons of cockle shells into a corner, all gleaming white and moving around with the sound of a baby’s rattle.
Squall 2
£ 250
Oil Painting, 12″x12″ Pegwell By.. east coast of Kent in the background. This whole area is now a nature reserve.
Range Finder
£ 200
oil on canvas, 300mm x 300mm..this is a WW2 bunker looking over the English Channel. the post inside could be used to support a telescope or range finder that enabled cannons inland to target enemy shipping in the Channel.
Dragon’s Teeth
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oil on canvas, 1000mm x 800mm…At Bekesbourne around fifteen miles from my home can be found these “Dragons Teeth”. They were made to encircle a Royal Flying Corps airfield during WW1. Basically, they are concrete pyramids weighing several tons each. The idea was they would prevent any invader from using motorised mobility to access the airfield. When the airfield became redundant they were placed in a convenient corner of a field and forgotten.
Samphire 2
£ 250
oil on canvas 16″x16″ unframed. Samphire Hoe, built on the spoil from the channel tunnel construction.
Regent
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oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches… The old cinema, then bingo hall, now derelict Regent Cinema
Dymchurch Wall
£ 250
acrylic on wood panel, 12 x 7 inches, includes frame. The sea defenses at Dymchurch as seen some years back. now replaced by a modern construction and huge granite blocks.This is the area the artist Paul Nash pa9nted during his stay at Dymchurch. Now sadly wrecked by new sea defenses,totally unsympathetic to its heritage.
Dymchurch
£ 600
oil on canvas, 22 x 20 inches
includes frame. The old sea wall at Dymchuch. Paul Nash painted several works while living in the area so you can see what he saw in 1923 when he painted ” The Shore”. The view has now been destroyed by a new sea wall and giant blocks of granite to keep out the sea.
Cornwall Cliffs
£ 400
oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches
does not include a frame. A portrait of the North Cornwall coastline, these headlands broken by sandy beaches seem to go on forever, finishing at Lands End.