Hello all  

I've just finished  a beautiful large oil on canvas which I thought I'd share with you.

I've often noticed how artists can paint the opposite: I mean, if they are in a cold climate they often paint tropical and in a hot, well, they paint snow like me! I suppose it's a touch of nostalgia.

One of the truly great advantages of being an artist is that when you want a painting for your house, you just go and do one!! In the style you want, in the size you want. How great is that!

For me, this painting has a real sense of inner peace to it. When we lived in Switzerland, we lived in a tiny village with not more than a couple of hundred people. And staggeringly, THIS was the view one morning, when I exited my house: a farmer's field, covered in deep, wonderful snow. We were surrounded by fields and woods and of course I miss that view and landscape so much now. Not that I don't love my new surroundings! I do. But, it was a beautiful location. And of course, it was made so much more lovely by enjoying doggy walks with our Axle, who left us (RIP) in January. Sharing the snow with a dog (for whom snow was a fascination and a passion) was a daily joy. I always loved our walks. I remember VERY few days, when the weather was SO bad that I wanted to come home. And when it was that bad, we both wanted to come home!

Our walks were such a special time, when we both often drifted off in to our own world, then bounced back to have fun together. Memories become a blur though, it's so easy to forget the things you did................

Anyway, this painting is a way for me to walk outside of my door again, and straight into my snowy village in Switzerland. With Axle, playing with his two favourite things: a stick and snow. What could be more fun in life than sticks and snow?

This painting suffers a little from the computer transfer, I think this is because there's a lot of white in the painting, which doesn't seem to translate particularly well. But, I've copied those little Swiss cottages up on the hill perfectly. Their little roofs and pines covered in thick snow. The sky is very subtle, full of muted snow-tones, and quite Turneresque with that Patch Work Cirrocumulus sky (yes that's a real cloud term, I looked it up :)) Surely, there must be a better term than that? I'll just call it patch-work-splatters. Then, you can make your own picture.

I've called this painting 'Forever Young', since Axle will always be exactly that: forever young. So, I guess it's a very nostalgic, emotional painting for me. How lovely to stare at it every day  To travel back to a place and bring back those feelings again.

I guess, I'll can always open my door to my little village in Switzerland, whenever I want to now

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Hello bloggers,  Hope you are all well.

Been such a busy bee lately, painting, painting and more painting. And so much inspiration!

Here's my huge 'Deep Blue', inspired from a visit to The Palms in Dubai, and it's aquarium which houses over 60,000 fish.

The inky blue waters run deeper and deeper and colder and colder the further down you go. There the fish flit in illuminated dance; sometimes catching the light on their scales. Far up the sky and buildings reflect, too far up to affect the perfect blue..........

This is 'New Wood' oil on canvas. Fancy a walk?

It's a very peaceful walk. The birds are singing in the trees and there's a faint breeze, with a touch of autumn in its breath. The ground is strewn with the leaf debris of last season's fall. And this walk takes you to wherever you want to go  

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