Feeding the Ducks

What a magical image from halcyon days... Almost surreal and tapestry-like!

You paint with a lot of strength in your watercolours. I have a similar style but have recently been making a concious effort to change. The quality of your work has made me think again. Lovely work Margaret

The very opposite of fast and loose watercolour - these days so many people are making a deliberate effort to "loosen up", but - why should you? Go your own way - this reminds me, though only a little, of the watercolours of ... (reminds: if I had a memory, it would...) ... Sylvester (Stanhope?): a Victorian watercolourist, once very popular but fell out of fashion for his alleged "sentimentality". I hope people are now looking at his work again, because as this painting shows there's plenty of room for different styles: and I like this one.

Yes Robert - I'm afraid I was influenced a little bit by Victorian paintings of a similar genre! I had to consciously resist putting the child into Victorian dress!!!! I don't always paint like this as you would see if you looked at my website. I know loose is fashionable at the moment and there is a certain amount of wet-in-wet in this painting too - sky water and walls of building. (The trees are mainly sponged.) All the same a more detailed style and stronger colour is much more "me".

Very beautiful.

I love this. It is nice to see watercolour painted in different ways, just like oil and acrylic can be painted in loads of different ways and techniques.

Yes Very Victorian Margaret, but also extremely well executed.

Hello again Chris!