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Evening Cathedral, Ripon (In the Footsteps of Turner)
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas 59″ x 59″ Turner visited Ripon on his major expedition north in 1797 and again in 1816, on the latter occasion collecting subjects to illustrate Thomas…
August 14, 2017 -
‘Wind Against Tide, Dunstanburgh’ (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Wind Against Tide, Dunstanburgh’, oil on canvas 80cm x 80cm This is one of David’s favourite places to visit and to paint. Remote and beautiful, it has remained largely unchanged since Turner’s…
August 6, 2017 -
Richmond Castle (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Richmond Castle’ oil on canvas 80cm x 80cm Turner visited Richmond on both his 1797 & 1816 tours of the north making studies on the spot which he later worked up into finished…
April 14, 2017 -
Bamburgh (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Bamburgh’ oil on canvas 100cm x 100cm The beach to the north of Bamburgh castle has to be one of England’s best kept secrets – a huge stretch of fine sands and…
April 10, 2017 -
Sound Of Mull
It has been a busy and productive week in the studio at Norton Conyers; several paintings have been started and several more have come to completion. The largest of these is the…
March 11, 2017 -
Students’ Work
Great advances and some fine work by my students at Norton Conyers Studio this week; here’s a random selection. Well done everybody.
February 23, 2017 -
Richmond Castle (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Richmond Castle from the North’, Ink on sketchbook page
January 15, 2017 -
Rain Hushes River (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Rain Hushes River, Hackfall’, mixed media on sketchbook page 26cm x 17cm Hackfall is at the Masham end of the village of Grewelthorpe in North Yorkshire. The landscape that can be seen…
January 14, 2017 -
Teaching again
The first students of the winter term arrived yesterday morning. It was nice to get back into teaching again though I have to remind myself every time that I DO enjoy it…
November 17, 2016 -
Edge of the Woods, Hackfall (In the Footsteps of Turner)
‘Edge of the Woods, Hackfall’, oil on canvas 5′ x 5′ Turner tended to focus on the follies in Hackfall woods but for me (and in a different age) the woods themselves…
September 15, 2016
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