Cambridge at Night
Acrylic on canvas, finished with gloss varnish
Stretched, unframed
50 x 20cm
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April Snow Canigou
2019
Oil on canvas
Stretched, unframed
40 x 50cm
Between the pillars of two mountain pine trees the view across sixty kilometres as the crow flies includes the Peaks of Bugarach on the left and Cardou on the right. Tree form travels centrally down from the arboreal mass of a leaf obscured sky, the foreground a swirling of plants.
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August Clouds Pyrenees Orientales
2019
Oil on canvas
Stretched, unframed
50 x 70cm
From a level foreground at altitude where farmland is in disuse one can see across the white ridges that form natural barriers to the walker. To the right the high valley of the Aude; straight ahead the Eastern Pyrenees exult in cloud form and summer aspect.
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Autumn Beech River Salz
2012
Oil on canvas
Framed
76 x 61cm
On an autumn afternoon with the sun disappearing behind the high hill of forest a monumental beech tree stands in its brown leafed phase on a bed of fallen leaves. The River Salz cascades green in the left foreground to balance the bowl of the beech. The forested hill is a pattern of perpendiculars rendered with brush strokes whose action is liberal and expressive.
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Crystal Park
2015
Acrylic on canvas
Stretched, unframed
50 x 50cm
Between two dead pines left and a leafy linden tree right, the blood of dawn coils over and on the peak of Canigou. We are in a particular forest of many needles shortly after dawn. The moment is becoming crystal clear.
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Dawn View from Madres
2017
Acrylic on canvas
Stretched, unframed
60 x 60cm
Canigou in featureless blue dominates a sea of morning mist. Perched on a granite peak the artist sees into rocky abyss, mountain lake and rolling green hills. The rays of morning in white traverse the scene.
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The Agly
2016
Oil on canvas
Stretched, unframed
61 x 50cm
The turquoise sculptress River Agly has formed a rough and moving relief, the Gorges de Galamus; carved for two hundred million years out of rare dolomitic limestone from the Black Jurassic that has arisen from her springs. The painting is a study of stones, a close reading of the water.
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Evening Beech Trees
2019
Oil on canvas
Stretched, unframed
50 x 61cm
A westering sun casts a yellow light through a transparent forest where blue shadow reaches out from the undergrowth. Two paths converge on the way to the West. (Foothills of the Pyrenees Orientales)
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Flame Canigou
2011
Oil on canvas
Stretched, unframed
46 x 61cm
A view to sacred Canigou from the foot of a great pine and chestnuts on the Col Roque Jalere. September, and already the chestnut leaves are brown. The valley hides itself in a sea of mist above which the mountain rises red as a heart.
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Selkie’s Rock II
2008
Oil on board
Stretched, framed
58 x 68cm
The geology of Skye is of great interest and warrants close inspection. Some days one has the privilege of alternately being bitten by midges and smitten by hailstones. Despite this the tidal rock is a veritable treasure chest.
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