Yesterday I tried to sketch a very complicated Hazel tree during the Park Sketchers meeting. I must say I didn’t make things easy for myself. The colours were wonderful with mustard and green showing up when the sun came out. I’ll post a photo I took after. The other is a quick demonstration work for my…
Today I joined the fortnightly sketchers in Hotham Park again and was surprised how much springing has gone on. I know it happens every year but somehow always comes as a delightful surprise.
For three Saturdays Boris the train has been turned into Santa’s express,well maybe forget the express bit, complete with a grotto in this little shed. He trundles round the park as usual but ends in the grotto. In view of the current train crisis at least this one is reliable!
Since my last trip to the park I have succumbed to a seasonal cold which has rather cramped my stye but I took these shots of the place I sketched last time. The light was lovely and I wished I had more time before I had to stop.
Yesterday as I wandered around the Park I visited one of my favourite places, a rather wild area with a very old Elderberry tree in it. On the way I noticed the tree surgeons removing dead branches from tall trees. When I arrived to say hello to my tree I found it had been sawn…
This morning there was a heavy frost so I went to the sketching group at the park well wrapped up. The light was amazing and the hour went by very quickly. Nearly all the leaves are off the trees now and their bones show an amazing range of colours in the winter sun.
Earlier I posted some pastels I had done whilst in the Park and here are three more of Autumn plants and the colours in the Winter Garden. The Agapanthus will soon go to ground and the Gunnera looks spectacular in its collapsing state. Its hard to believe that those huge leaves will grow again in…
In my last post I was stressing about mounting a one night exhibition of my Hotham Park paintings in the Hotham Cafe. Everything went so well that we had half an hour to spare thanks to the help I had form the cafe proprietor and staff. We welcomed the Mayor of Bognor Regis and chairman…
Today is the day I will, for one night only, be exhibiting my park paintings in the Hotham Park Cafe. It’s going to be a bit of a scramble to do it all in one and a half hours but as much forward prep has been done as possible and I will be posting some…
There is a little train that runs in Hotham Park in the summer and half term holidays. He is named Boris and children love him. I’m told his name is derived not from a certain blond desheveled politician but from a condensed version of the town’s name, Bognor Regis. The name is the result of…
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