Chestnut Tree

Gardens, Paintings

The Chestnut tree in the garden at West End Lane in November. Tradition has it that early construction workers would take rubble from a house and burn it against a tree in the back garden. Apparently the trees often caught fire. That was the explanation for this...

Clothesline

Gardens

Painted in the garden of a worker’s cottage in Victoria Road, Cowes during Cowes Week. Victoria Road leads out of Cowes towards Newport and starts at The Duke of York Pub at the edge of the town centre. There was an air of an earlier age in the Cowes of the 1980s. It...

The Green Bank

Boats, Landscape

Boats moored in Falmouth Harbour on a cloudy day. The green bank in the background is where Roger Moore, of The Saint and James Bond fame was said to own a house. SIZE: 12” X 16” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE...

Nica’s Dream

Animals

Nica, the pretty little Siamese kitten shared the house at Sherbourne and Dundas Streets with Awry the cat, Chance the dog and various humans. Her mistress, Liz, an accomplished pianist, loved the song Nica’s Dream by Horace Silver and loved the sound of the the...

Royal Yacht Squadron

Boats, Inside/out, Landscape

True to the artist’s proclivity for red herrings, this picture of the Royal Yacht Squadron was painted from a boat designer’s basement apartment across the way, contrasting the peeling paint with the grandiosity of the yacht club. The Royal Yacht Squadron was founded...