High And Dry

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Like it a lot John , the colours you have used work well.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Thu 23 Sep 15:40:23

Really like this John. Great sparse palette giving a real feel of desolation and the sky is superb. . Lovely work.

Posted by Jim Morris on Thu 23 Sep 15:42:43

That is superb John! I can understand why it sold so quickly!

Posted by David Stevens on Thu 23 Sep 16:37:56

Really good, John!

Posted by Jack McConnochie on Thu 23 Sep 17:16:48

Love it. Beautiful work. Love the sky

Posted by Faye Patrick on Thu 23 Sep 20:01:13

Good job you kept a photographic copy John. I like it a lot, I like the almost sepia look to it.

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Thu 23 Sep 21:01:00

Nothing wrong with monochrome - no, it's not quite monochrome, but it very nearly is, and I think it works very well.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Thu 23 Sep 21:28:17

This is wonderful John, you're on a roll with your recent posts. I love the colour palette, composition and sense of space and sadness

Posted by Heather Love on Fri 24 Sep 07:22:54

Good work John.

Posted by George Cutter on Fri 24 Sep 09:59:43

My thanks to everyone for your nice comments. Now the conjunctivitis has gone I can see well enough to do some fresh work, so I may be absent for a week or so! Thanks again folks.

Posted by John Walker on Fri 24 Sep 11:55:07

Lovely has a calmness about it 😊

Posted by sandra binney on Sat 25 Sep 08:04:42

Love this John, it’s fabulous.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 25 Sep 16:29:02

Another good painting. I like the muted tones

Posted by Jack McConnochie on Wed 29 Sep 16:39:40

Hang on Studio Wall

23/09/2021

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Oils. 20 x 24 inches. The picture started life as a 30 x 20 inch canvas, but it looked a little uninteresting at that size, so I resized. It turned out to be a venture into almost monochrome. It sold at my very first exhibition. I was inspired by Rowland Hilder; who influenced me most in painting skies. Paint a sky per day, he advised! For this painting I used an old sketch of a craft I saw near Pin Mill when I was at HMS Ganges.

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John Walker

I have painted most of my life. Childhood Christmases usually found a box of watercolours in my 'stocking'. I left school in 1954 and within 6 months I had enlisted in the Royal Navy, starting at the infamous HMS Ganges, near Shotley, Suffolk. Artists country yes, but no time for such things while…

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