This web site shows my paintings in three groups namely Landscapes, Portraits and Abstract.
Two paintings, Croft on Vatersay and Loch Na Keale feature poetry written and read by my friend Joan McGavin.
Later this year I will intoduce a sales section.
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To Slackstead, Ampfield Wood, Hampshire
Oil on canvas. 16” x 16”
Red Gate to Ampfield Wood.
Oil on board. 18” x 16”
Claypit Road, south of Slackstead, Ampfield Wood.
Oil on board. 15” x 13”
Red Gate into Ampfield Wood.
Oil on canvas board. 18” x 16”
Loch Na Keale, Isle of Mull
Oil on canvas
Croft on Vatersay
Oil on canvas. 20” x 20’
Croft on Vatersay
Paintings can’t speak, so no reason to suppose
an elegiac theme would emanate from this one. My eye
didn’t at first detect the roof-hole that declares
this croft’s abandoned; was once where someone
lived. Smoke not cloud, curled out of those chimneys.
There must have been blue skies - entirely so - sometimes
and laughter and good sleep after hard work, and flowers
beginning to come through to signal spring around
the doorway, pushing its green smells into the gaps
near window frames, and high summer sporting its brashness.
Surely there weren’t always such black clouds overhead?
That jaunty-coloured roof declares that though I’m sinking back
into the ground I rose from, I’ll do so with panache
or smeddum. I can outface the wind and rain,
henchmen of that stolid, plodding bully, Time.
Joan McGavin
Smeddum is a Scottish word meaning energy or gumption.
Corfe Castle v I
Mixed media on paper. 13” x 10”
Corfe Castle v II
Mixed media on paper. !3’ x 10”