Jubilee Window

Another back-to-front painting on the bay window, this time to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The splendid design is just copied off an old Oxo tin from the 1953 Coronation (which we've put in the window too) that I saw at our friends' house a couple of years ago, and thought I'd like to do something with one day.

Southwold murals old and new.

In 2003 Tim painted a 8' x 12' mural on the end wall of the house adjacent to our friends' place in Southwold. Building work and damp problems over the years resulted in rerendering the wall and the mural disappeared. A new one was commissioned (this time on an interior wall) and is currently a work in progress.
The first mural was painted with masonry paint tinted with tester pots, and was inspired by the look of old railway posters. The new one is based on a pen and watercolour sketch of a similar view of Blackshore, with Southwold beyond, from the Walberswick side of the River Blyth. It's blown up to about seven feet wide and is painted in acrylics, trying to keep the spontaneous look of the original. Take a look at the March 2012 blogs to see another mural painted using the same method.
The pictures below show the old outside mural soon after it was painted, then the watercolour sketch the new one is based on, and finally the new one - so far, just painted lines.

New commissions: Lady Daphne and Across to Old Hall:

Here are a couple of recent local landscape commissions. 
Lady Daphne off Tollesbury shows the famous Thames barge sailing up Tollesbury Fleet to The Ship Ahoy, which (in an alternative reality) is still  a busy pub out on the marsh and Across to Old Hall: High Water shows the view across the flooded field at a very high tide.

Lady Daphne off Tollesbury

Acrylic on canvas  40" x 30"

Sold

Across to Old Hall: High Water

Acrylic on canvas  16" x 12"

Sold

Hazeleigh Wood pen and inks

These are three A4 pen and watercolour studies from Hazeleigh Wood last autumn - two show the charcoal kiln in action and the third a view through the trees from one of the many paths.
All three are for sale, framed, at £120 each.

Watercolour landscapes/ hand-made paper

These are of couple of Julie's paper cut-outs turned back into watercolours, but still keeping the crisp edges and bright colours that using cut paper allows. They're painted on some of Charles Bran's hand-made paper, which he makes from all manner of plants and leaves - honeysuckle, bramble, seaweed and more. Take a look at his interesting website, papermakingfromplants.co.uk

Tollesbury: high water

The current new painting in the studio window shows the view at high tide, on a strangely warm January day, from the old sea wall, looking towards the lightship, boatyards and sail lofts.  

Tollesbury: high water

Acrylic on canvas  30" x 15"

SOLD

Paper cut-out landscapes cards for sale

As mentioned on the Paper Cut-Out Landscapes page, we've now got a fine selection of postcards, greetings cards and sets of note cards for sale at the studio and also at The Loft.
Here are a couple of pictures of (almost all) the full range. The lower one also shows a couple of  Julie's original paper cut-outs mounted and framed.