Parc and Cnicht - Chimneys, Gables and the Mountain

Four small paintings

Skyfall

'It was awesome! Terrifying and exhilarating in equal measure...   The freefall was fast [100mph approx], furious and thankfully brief [60 secs].  Then things slowed down, wonderfully, with the parachute. 

 

You are so small up there, looking out over three coastlines and and the fields and hills of Devon, Dorset and Somerset. But despite the terror of the heights I did it; helped on by over £1000 raised to help some of the poorest people in the world through the amazing work of Christian Aid. Thank you everyone.'

From Portmerion

From Bossington towards Porlock Weir and Forland Point

Changling images

Another painting, another view, another change... just, I guess, as the tides and sands and seas change.

 

Chaging images

 

What started life as this, has become this... any thoughts... not that it can go back; the undo button doesn't apply to oil paint...

Cul More

A study in blue and ochre... painted from a watercolour sketch of many years ago.  Cul More is a beautiful mountain in Sutherland in the North West Highlands of Scotland.  It is often forgotten amidst the celebrities of Suilven and Stac Pollaidh; perhaps in part because of this it is graced with solitude and space. 

 

 

Kingscliff in Autumn

 

A little painting

More sand and sea

 

Selworthy Sands, barely known and only accessable at low tide, and via a roped scramble down the scree; but beautiful and etherial, as such beaches so often are... 

 

Above Kingscliff Woods

Just to prove that I also paint closer to home.  This is the upper end of a regular run of mine; where the woods, once a royal forest managed by Geoffrey Chaucer, give way to the first hills of the Quantocks.  There was a hard frost this morning, but the sun was breaking through the mist; and, for the first time in months, I ran up the hills, as well as down them...

Coquet Island

The second attempt of 2012; not as good as the first painting, I think.

Coquet Island

Coquet Island, from Alnmouth, once again.  The Northumberland coast continues to fascinate and inspire me.

Keeping painting; another blue cross

Back to the hills

After nearly three months off the hills; a torn ligament in my knee, and more than enough work, in school and beyond; I am back running and painting.
The hills are hard work, and Exmoor is freezing!
I hope that this blog will get up and running properly and some pictures will be up here as soon as possible.